chapter 22: an age of cross-cultural interaction
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Chapter 22: An Age of Cross-Cultural Interaction. 1000 to 1500 CE. Most important information in this presentation!. European maritime technology Compass, astrolabe, caravel Henry the Navigator & his school Europe’s role in African slave trade European trade Ming foreign policy - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
1000 to 1500 CE
Chapter 22: An Age of Cross-Cultural
Interaction
Most important information in this presentation!
European maritime technology Compass, astrolabe, caravel
Henry the Navigator & his school Europe’s role in African slave trade European trade Ming foreign policy
Zheng He European Renaissance
Astrolabe: Chaucer’s version of Astrolabes for Dummies
http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/library_exhibitions/schoolresources/astrolabe/
Creating an Astrolabe1. Read the Instructions2. Using glue and split-pin fasteners assemble the
astrolabe ACCURATELY3. Go to Mrs. Z’s website and link to “how to use
your astrolabe” and try it out tonight
Please explain
Why did we make an astrolabe? How would this instrument revolutionize
maritime travel? Extrapolate that answer into trade, what does
this invention do for trade? What invention would make the astrolabe
essentially obsolete? Why? (Think Islam)
The Caravel Prince Henry the Navigator –
Portugal Phillip II – Spain (1556 –
1598) How were these King’s
policies instrumental in the rise of their respective countries?
Ship design continued to improve
European Trade & Sub-
Saharan Trade get married
• Prince Henry’s exploration of the African coast linked the two
• Cartography became a popular science along with astronomy• Global wind and current
patterns became widely circulated knowledge
• Why do all these people want to understand this? What are they
hoping to gain through this knowledge?
Portugese Slave Traders
Traded guns, textiles, and manufactured items for slaves
Took the slaves to plantations on Atlantic Islands to cultivate sugar and other luxury goods
Later they rounded the cape and expanded the trade
Christopher Columbus discovers the Caribbean 1492
When Columbus found some islands just off India that were totally unlike any islands off India anyone else had found he was very pleased with himself. So pleased that he returned three times. Go Chris go.
Cultural ExchangesWho
Troubadours Merchants Slaves Missionaries Soldiers Other ideas?
What Crops (citrus, rice sugar) Cotton Gunpowder Weapon & war
technologies Maritime technologies What else?
Black Death: Bubonic Plague?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2g50tW9fUc
Ming Rising 1368-1644
Emperor Hongwu 1368 Confucian system Irrigation systems Defensive systems Cultural revival
Gentlemanly BehaviorLu Kun, governor of Jiangxi during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), defined the code of gentlemen in his book, Groanings. The following are some of his suggestions:
He should hide a large portion of whatever goodness he might have and thus cultivate his “ethical profoundness.” Likewise he should conceal to a great extent the shortcomings of others and thus enlarge his “magnanimity,” Patience is essential to planning, and a peaceful mind is a prerequi-site to the management of affairs. Modesty is the most important item in the preservation of one’s life, and tolerance and forgiveness should be the basic attitude towards others. To cultivate his mind, a gentleman should not be unduly concerned with such things as affluence or poverty, life or death, constancy or change.
Every event has its reality, every word its abode of beatitude, and every object the reason that sustains its existence. Likewise there are ways that make man a man; the purpose of education is to learn these ways. A gentleman learns them whenever and wherever he is, constantly and tirelessly. He will not cease to learn until he knows them all and knows them well.
Source: Lu Kun, Groanings, in The Essence of Chinese Civilization, edited by Dun J. Li (Princeton, N.J.: Van Nostrand, 1967).
Zheng He
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0507/feature2/map.html
Stuff to Remember from Chapter 22
Europe escalated their maritime technology Compass, astrolabe, caravel
Henry the Navigator & his school Portugeese fundamentally changed the African slave
trade The more Europeans sailed the more stuff got traded The Ming were schitzo in their foreign policy
Zheng He – not he isolationist! Europe had a renaissance… maybe