1. The Beginnings of Our Global Age: Europe, Africa, and Asia 1415-1796
Chapter 2
The Beginnings of Our Global Age: Europe, Africa, and Asia

2. The Search for Spices

3. The Moluccas p. 85

4. Class activity p. 85-89 What was Prince Henry objectives?
What is a cartographer?
Who was Vasco da Gama
How did Portuguese exploration lead to the creating of a trading empire?
Summarize the story of Christopher Columbus and when did he come to the Americas.
Explain what the Treaty of Tordesillas was
What is Ferdinand Magellan’s story?
What is circumnavigate?

5. Section 2
Turbulent Centuries in Africa p

6. Portuguese forts Purpose Mombasa Malindi Collecting food
Trade tools, cloth, ivory, hides, slaves, etc.
Portuguese stayed on the coasts only, never beyond. They didn’t explore.

7. African Slave Trade Explodes
Slave = Slavs taken from Southern Russia to work in Roman times
Europeans enter the Slave Trade
Plantations
Portuguese stayed on the coasts only, never beyond. They didn’t explore.

8. p. 91
Primary Source
Portuguese stayed on the coasts only, never beyond. They didn’t explore.

9. African Leaders Resist
Affonso I king of Kongo
Taught by missionaries
Opposed slavery
Read letter p. 94
Portuguese stayed on the coasts only, never beyond. They didn’t explore.

10. African Leaders Resist
Futa Toro
Find it on the map p. 92
Almany opposed
The Almany opposed but the French found other places
New states emerged and others disappeared forever.

11. The Asante Kingdom Osei Tutu Unified the kingdom
Claimed his right to rule from heaven
Officials by merit rather than birth

12. The Oyo Empire
Present day Nigeria
Benefited from slave trade

13. Cape Town
See map on p. 92
Boers
Dutch farmers

15. Encounters in East Asia
Section 4 (p )

16. Ming China “Our empire owns the world”
European textiles and metalwork were inferior

17. Macao (p. 101) Portuguese trading post Later Supervised trade
Dutch, English
Supervised trade
Payments with
gold and silver
only

18. Christian missionaries in China
Matteo Ricci
Jesuit
Contributions
Geography
Mathematics
Philosophy
Other scientific topics

19. The Manchu Conquest (1644) Manchuria The Great Wall
Northeast
The Great Wall
Fall of the Ming Dynasty
Beginning of the Qing Dynasty

20. Qing Dynasty Confucian system of government Kangxi Qianlong
Supported by Chinese scholars
Kangxi
Qianlong
Expanded China’s borders
Retired after 60 years

21. Peace and Prosperity Chinese economy expanded
New crops from the Americas
Corn and potatoes
Population boom
140 million (1740) to 300 million (1800)
Silk, cotton, porcelain industries expanded
internally and internationally

22. Rejecting contact with Europeans
Restricting foreign trade
Lord Macartney
Head of a British diplomatic mission
Brought samples of British- made goods
Chinese saw them as crude products and gifts to the emperor.
Insisted on an audience with the emperor
Kowtow (touching head to the ground).
Spoke of natural superiority of the English.

23. Korea and Japan Korea chooses isolation Foreign Trades in Japan
Welcomed first
Christian converts
Expelled