HIS102Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Nur Jahan, Genghis Khan, Indian Ocean Trade
Document Summary
India, the indian ocean and the spice trade. Economic and cultural importance: art shows mixing of culture, centre of indian ocean and spice trade. Chinese in se asia: eurocentric, sinocentric, fujian, guangdong cash crops (larger crops & became harder for small time population to continue living) Increase military conscription, taxation pushes people to leave: pull: know somebody else in se asia lineage to help with immigration. Local rulers welcomed b/c they were help developing economy. Lineage provided welfare & other social services: not sponsored by chinese state. Portuguese: wanted to cut on middlemen on spice trade, root to se asia islands was main goal for european exploration, goa (india), melaka (islands), macao (china, compete with arab merchants, government sponsored trade and oceanic voyages. English: stronger and better organized , english east india company (1600 & 1650s) dominate trade /w se asia, sponsored but not run by government, regional economy became more oriented around and focused on trade with english.
