HIS333H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Proselytism, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Xenophobia
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In the philippines, the key is the lack of centralized state. The individualized communities connected with the spanish state that supported the dominicans that had a powerful hand in the council of trent and had a special relationship with the. It was after the correction of the treaty of tordesilles that formally petitioned the world, giving the spanish the philippines, though it wasn"t necessarily respected by the world. Manila becomes a major entrep t for silver coming from the new world in exchange for products that were coming from china. Chinese market in the 16th and into the 17th century. The spanish didn"t nd a raw material in the philippines to exploit, but they exploited their geographic location as a key spot in the overseas trade and within the regional trade for spices from the. Mollucus to ceramics and silks that came from china, to the silver that came from the.
