vast, diverse participants
Indian Ocean commercial network
provided the cultural and organizational foundation of an emerging Western European civilization
What is the Roman Catholic Church
What is fur?
depended on revenue from slave trade
African states
wanted to avoid Venetian and Muslim monopolies on trade in Eastern goods
Portuguese
negotiated treaties with local Indian rulers instead of conquering and colonization
What is the British East India company
shattered the unity of the Roman Catholic Christianity
What is the Protestant Reformation?
created a genuinely global network of exchange
what is silver
distinguished Atlantic slave trade from past labor systems
slave status was associated with race
expelled all Europeans except the Dutch
Tokugawa Shoguns
killed, enslaved, forced natives to trade with them, destroyed crops of people who refused to trade with them
What is the Dutch East India company
criticized the Catholic church for being corrupt
caused the value of silver to skyrocket
China required taxed be paid in silver
African elites participated in the slave trade for this
weapons from Europe
generated warfare among different groups of Native Americans
the fur trade
global spread of African peoples
without this the Protestant Reformation would not have been as widespread
what is the printing press
middlemen funneling American silver to Asia
European role in the economy
cause of demographic changes in the Americas
increase in global demands for cash crops
The introduction of New World food crops to Afro-Eurasia and the spread of epidemic diseases to the Americas
created by the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean
this region saw the most religious division resulting from the Reformation
European countries tried to control trade in Asia by
force and conquest
most desired international commodity
what are spices
1600-1800, all had policies that limited interactions with foreigners
China, Korea, Japan