MMW 13 Lecture Notes - Spice Trade, Bartolomeu Dias, Canary Islands
12 Mar 2014
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Key focus of lecture: motives behind the european push for exploration, why incremental development of this process, the appetite for spice. ---i) 1488 the portuguese pilot bartholomew dias rounds the cape of good hope cape of good hope:southern african continent important to comfire that there was a maritime route to india. ---ii) 1492 columbus sails across the atlantic from the castilian colony on canary. Islands comfident that impose the expediture mission: find a shorter route to indian, cross the atlantic. -----(1) outer islands of cipangu or new continent? first thought he arrived at the line of japan second voyage comfired that it was a new continent. ---iii) 1494 treaty of tordesillas tready signed between spanish and portugese. ---iv) 1498 vasco da gama reached calicut continue the sail up to east of africa coastline. ---i) extend christendom to challenge the spread of islam the desire to spread christianity--suppport.
