ASH-3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Sepoy, Biblioteca Europea Di Informazione E Cultura, Mughal Empire
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Muhammad, compilation of all messages received from allah, created a few years after. Islam originally kept separate from conquered areas, wanted to be kept arab, but eventually starting converting others: caliphate blueprint for political authority, caliph was highest power. Under this were local sultans/sultanate (caliph = successors to muhammad, at one point were descendants and had (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s to god (cid:271)ut (cid:374)o(cid:449) do(cid:374)"t) South asia and europe: spices are expensive and only the wealthy can afford them, so they want to cut out the trading middlemen. India and the portuguese: explore both west and around coast of africa, vasco de gama, 1497-99, goes around cape of good hope and comes back up, picking up local advice from. Realize that it"s easie(cid:396) to t(cid:396)ade w/ brazil than india: never enough portuguese to control all outposts, only have a male presence in these places, women usually go to brazil, emphasis on conversion causes tension, take-over by spain.
