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Crash Course In History Notes

Crash Course Video Notes:
9/16/2014
Jeremy Tetreault
21 Columbus, de Gama, and Zheng He! 15[th] Century Mariners. Crash Course: World History #21

* Zheng He (China):

+ Greatest Admiral in Chinese history.
+ He was a Muslim.
+ 1405-1433 Zheng He, led 7 voyages through the Indian ocean,
+ Led a fleet of ships of over 300, and a crew of 27,000 (the flagships [treasure ships] being substantially bigger [400ft] than Columbus's flagships [150ft]).
+ Zheng He wasn't an explorer; the Indian Ocean had already been explored and known to him, he visited Africa, the Middle East and South Asia.
+ Didn't voyage primarily on trade (did bring back a wide range of African wild life ...

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(Portugal):

+ From Portugal, which was small and relatively resource poor (relied on trade in order to grow).
+ Was sponsored by Prince Henry "The Navigator "who was a patron of sailors and had a special navigation school at Sagres. He had cartographers there, where nautical knowledge was collected, and new maps were made. All that knowledge gave Portuguese sailors an advantage when it came time for exploration.
+ Portuguese sailors searched for two things, first a path to the Indian Ocean so they could get in the lucrative spice trade and second to look for Kingdom of John in Africa who was rumored to be a Christian and therefore use his help in a Christian Crusade.
+ 1498 he landed at Calcutta, Merchants asked him what he wanted he responded by saying gold and Christians (Portugal's motives were exploration).
+ Eventually led Portugal to capture and control a number of coastal cities, allowing them to control a "trade empire" (that was made possible by the superior ...

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old), after "The Dark Ages "

+ Which were essentially the Arts of previous Greek and Roman culture.

* Is associated with the 15[th] and 16[th] (1400-1500s) Century

* Italy was primed for the Renaissance because of money, Milan (cloth), Genoa (trade), Venice (trade with Ottoman Empire [Islamic World]), and Florence (trade)

+ Venice exported textiles to the Ottomans by using a resource from the Ottoman Empire called Alum that enriched the textiles (from Anatolia [modern Turkish Capital]), until 1460 Alum was found naturally in Tolfa.
o The Pope, gave exclusive access to the Alum to a Florence family, making Florence one of the richest city states of the Renaissance

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