HIST 1250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Making Money
7 Dec 2013
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Have a bad reputation after the trial of galileo. They travel around the world trying to convert people, but use science to do so. Large amounts of population are found in asia, so many missionaries travel to china. Even in european schools some curriculum is from the jesuit"s. Build a global network of science and bring large amounts of data back to rome. China has good medicine, and are not interested in western medicine. But they have better clock making techniques, geography, astronomy. Matteo ricci travels to china in 1601 to attempt and convert the emperor. He tells rome to send astronomers to china because they are so behind in that field. They started to fall behind in european science. The jesuit"s in latin america do much more observing than teaching. Make lots of discoveries in plants and animals. Very interested in finding natural resources that can be used in medicine. Jesuit"s were not making much progress converting people.
