HISA04H3 Lecture 17: Lecture 17.pdf
Document Summary
Themes: why & how europeans came to dominate global commerce between. 1450 1750: key commodities exchanged within regional and across global networks, how cultures in contact reshaped the world by the end of the 18th century. Charting new worlds ii: commodities, production, and consumption. Spain: 16th century: entered market, set up the philippine islands, began to colonize the islands instead of just trading, relied on military force to gain control, began to convert philippines to christianity. Japan: plagued by civil strength, shoguns tokagawa clan, unified and saw europeans as threat to unity, banned christian missionaries & converts, banned all european traders except dutch who weren"t into religion, only allowed one site. 16th century silver deposits found in bolivia, travelled east & west, great silver demand in china: larger value = european advantage & entrance into asian market. In potos (bolivia, largest city in s. a. ), spain over exerted self financially & silver drops in value causing spain"s status to drop.
