HIS 826 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Paolo Dal Pozzo Toscanelli, Allspice, La Isabela
23 Jan 2021
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Inquisition, forced conversion of muslims and jews, persecution of all religious minorities, intolerance: crown supported for exploration had two goals: launch a new crusade against muslim rulers in the holy land, fund crusade by circumventing. Ottoman trade monopoly: new maps: toscanelli (from florence) had the goal of finding a shorter route to. China and india and his theory was that asia extended much further than in. 2/112020: columbus" first expedition: funded by spain and done with fishing and merchant ships with no weapons and a letter of introduction from the queen to the chinese. Indians and chinese: assumed they were poorer tribes of indians and thus called them. Indians: his christian duty was to educate the natives and bring them to the light of. Azores islands and reached lisbon on march 15. Columbus came in search of spices: he thought dried allspice fruits were peppercorns: mayans used it to embalm bodies, jamaicans to preserve meats, central.
