GINS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dutch East India Company, Nanban Trade, Filipinos

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Global and International Studies
• Course: GINS 1000
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Sell the silver to china but china has everything that everyone else wants. Imperial rivalries: portugal, england, france until about 1902: mexican or philippino"s as middle men become very rich. Americas eurasia, africa: silver, manufactured goods, sugar, tobacco, fur. Asia american, europe: tea, coffee, cacao, silks, porcelain, spices. Africa- americas, eurasia: enslaved people, ivory, gold. Recap: politics of consumption, silver and the rise of global trade. Institutions for managing global trade: commodities, consumption and labour. How beliefs and ideas spread : merchants and migrants. Intermarriage and syncretism: forced conversions (conquest, conversions of convenience, missionaries and proselytizers, communications technology. Older traditions: animistic- natural entities have spiritual essence: shamanism- interlocutors, polytheistic- multiple deities, localized- tied to region, syncretic- adaptive; blended. Indus valley civilizations: karma- caste (varna) system, no leaders, prophets or founders, book: vedas, henotheism. Buddhism- 6th 4th c bce: spreads eastwards via silk road, karma- nirvana (enlightenment) 1469: there is no hindu, no muslim, only god , first community khalsa (1699)