HISA04H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Tokugawa Shogunate, East India Company, Columbian Exchange
Document Summary
Examine why and how eurpeans came to dominate global commerce between 1450 and. Key commodigits exchanged withing regional and across global networks. Considere how cultures in contact reshaped the world by the end of the eighteenth. Europeans entered the asian market because they were looking for spices, chinese silk, 15th century, western europe, spain, portugal, france and england are taxing cilvilians and enforced armies with gunpowder, going into big centers of market exchange, accumulation of wealth. The european ones were far less attractive than the asian markets. The portuguese are the first to make their ways into the indian ocean, they went south of portugal and around africa. By 1600"s, the portuguese trading empire was slowly descending. Spain challenges the portuguese in the indian ocean in the early 16th century. Made philipines the only other place that was strictly christian. The british and the dutch organized their indian ocean adventures through private companies, substantial number of investors.
