HUMAN-111 Lecture 7: Middle Ages and Renaissance - 7
24 Sep 2020
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Portuguese crown interested in getting up to date geographic information while. oushijg down african coast. Fra mauro, friar, cartographer, produced world map kinda accurate but without. Fra mauro"s map has water around africa, whereas ptolemy had land connecting africa to east asia. Mauro"s map gives portugal. idea to go around africa. Paolo toscanelli develops chart showing cipangu as an island between asia and europe, kinda where america"s are, tells portuguese to sail west, they decline, toscanelli"s map influences columbus. Vasco de gama develops african route that all subsequent portuguese voyages take. Vasco de gama gets heros welcome, he opens route to the indies! Gama"s voyage shows how difficult it was to break into indian trade. 1556 for portuguese to get macau, which became a portuguese settlement and a trading base with china: all bases, except for china, were established quickly under the governorship of the ruthless governor albuquerque. Portugal sees great increase in wealth, but portuguese fortunes do not last long.
