Lesson 3 Europe Explores East Asia

I. Europeans seek trade in East Asia 1500’s and 1600’s A. Portuguese 1. 1557-secured a trading post in Macao 2.China strictly limited and controlled trade and did not formally recognize Portuguese control of the trade post B. Spanish 1. Gained control of the Philippines and operated trade with SE Asia from this post 2. Actively traded with China using silver mined in Mexico to pay for silk and other goods

C. Dutch 1. Seized control of Taiwan in 1624 as a base of trade with China and Japan 2. Chinese drove them out in 1661

II. China and the Europeans Trade with China was difficult, saw themselves as the greatest in the world. Had no desire to deal with the “foreign devils” (Europe) Europeans saw themselves as superior and that attitude caused conflict with the Chinese Only wanted silver or gold as payment if they did trade with an European group Sir George Macartney (British) unsuccessfully tried to open up trade with China in 1793

III. Japan and the Europeans 1540’s 1st Europeans reached Japan. After that traders and missionaries from Portugal continued to come Japanese rulers came to distrust the Portuguese by the late 1500’s Religion was a big cause of this distrust. Missionaries and Japanese Christians were persecuted. Late 1500’s –Portuguese soon got out of Japan altogether

D. Early 1600s –Dutch came into Japan to set up trade E D. Early 1600s –Dutch came into Japan to set up trade E. Dutch successfully set up a trading post and the Japanese closely controlled trade F. The Dutch remained the only Europeans to trade with Japan until the 1800s