Asian+Trading+Network

Notes 484-491 **The Asian Trading world and the coming of the Europeans ** **MI: After Da Gama's voyage most European interprise in the Indian Ocean. ** **﻿Most Europeans tried to find different and easy ways to carry Asian products back to Europe ** **Some Europeans went to Asia not to buy goods, but to covert people to christianity ** **they were called missionaries and they settled in coastal enclaves ** **The Asian sea trading network can be divided in 3 main zones ** **the Arab zone wich focused on glass, carpets and tapestries trade. ** **India dominated the central portions of the system ** **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">China produced paper ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Japan = precious metal, food ect. ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Arabas anc Chinese had compasses and large well-built ships therefore they could cross large expanses of open water such as Arabian and South China. ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Europeans attempted to control the trade system ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">**<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Because all the people participating in the network had something to trade for the products they wanted from others, the exchanging sytem was peaceful. **

**<span style="color: teal; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Trading Empire: The Portuguese Response to the Encounter at Calicut ** **<span style="color: teal; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">MI: Portuguese use force to extract spices and other goods form asia resulted from lack of numbers and trading goods with their superior ships and weaponry. ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Market in calucut had little other than gold and silver to exchange with Asian peoples ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Age in which prominent economic theorists called mercantilists, states power depended on heavily ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Portuguese had to set out to undermine through their overseas enterpises ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Portuguese use force to extract spices and other goods form asia resulted from lack of numbers and trading goods with their superior ships and weaponry ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">When gama returned on a second expedition to Asian waters in 1502 he was able to force ports on both indian and sfrican coasts ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">1507 and onward they stove to capture toens and build fortesses at a number of strategic points ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Took ormuz at southern end of Persian gulf, in 1510 they captured goa on the western indian coast ** **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">The aim of the empire was to establish portugese monopoly control over key Asian products like cinnamon **


 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">Summary: **
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">The Asian sea trading network can be broken down into three main zones, the Arab zone which traded glass and carpets, the Indian zone which traded cotton textiles and the china zone which traded silk textiles. Portuguese used force to extract spices and other goods form asia resulted from lack of numbers and trading goods with their superior ships and weaponry. The portugese managed to control much of the flow of speices, they had harsh punishments for rival traders like cutting off their hands. Asian armies offset the Europeans advantage in weapons and organization for waging war on land. The spread christianity was a fundamental part of the global mission of the Portuguese and Spanish. **

DO NOW! What was the nature of the relationships b\w traders in the I. Ocean trading network b4 the Portuguese arrived what apportunities did this create ? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Because all the people participating in the network had something to trade for the products they wanted from others, the exchanging sytem was peaceful, the military was not involved.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Peaceful= unwritten code of conduct <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">individual traders self interst=support <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">family not country <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Fragments lack of central control <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">lack of military <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">mutual benefits in trade <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The only thing portuguese had to offer was silver and gold <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Portuguese = easy to use military to dominate zone <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">they didnt face any competition, they were able to do whatever they wanted <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Portuguese didnt really face military problems <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Lack of powerful states and native populations = tribute <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Able to use their fleet to liscence = regulate trade <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">able to stablish factories