World Contacts Before Columbus What was the Afro-Eurasian trading world before Columbus?
-
Upload
alban-small -
Category
Documents
-
view
217 -
download
0
Transcript of World Contacts Before Columbus What was the Afro-Eurasian trading world before Columbus?
World Contacts Before Columbus
What was the Afro-Eurasian trading world before Columbus?
Indian Ocean Trading World
The center of pre-Columbian world trade.
Indian Ocean Trading World
Indian Ocean Trading World
• A “rich commercial world in which mutual self-interest had largely limited violence and attempts to monopolize trade.” (McKay, et al., 9/e, p. 485)
• Medieval China had the most advanced economy in the world.
Africa
Africa – Kingdom of Mali
Mansa Musa (14th c.)
A mosque in Timbuktu
Africa – Legend of Prester John
Prester John enthroned on a map of East Africa, in an atlas prepared by the Portuguese for Queen Mary of
England, 1558.
Prester John’s kingdom in what is now Ethiopia, map issued in Antwerp, 1570s.
The Middle East: Ottoman & Persian Empires
Ottoman Expansion
• 1453 – captured Constantinople = end of Byzantine empire• 1526 – defeat of Hungary• 1529 – siege on Vienna
• control of luxury trade with the East
• support for Crusades brought land & trading privileges
• Goods:o Eastern luxury goods:
spices, silks, carpetso Balkan slaveso Euro. products: wool,
metal, textiles
Venice and Genoa