HIST 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Grabs, Klemens Von Metternich, Johann Tetzel
11 Apr 2017
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Begun by italian city states: responsible for taking the soldiers to the crusades, selling exotic items. Beginning a land caravan to india to bring back spices. Result: looking for a more profitable way to get these spices back to. Europe: taking a boat by sea, passage to india from western europe cheap. Prince of portugal (healthy and wealthy nation: 4th son of the king (chance of becoming the king is not very likely) Portugal is right on the edge of the atlantic ocean. Devout christian!: wore a hair-shirt (long underwear made out of horse hair- under regular clothes-remind them of the suffering of jesus) Non-christians: no christianity in india, referred to as heathens , wants to convert these heathens to christianity. Discovers sea route to india will make a boat load of 1489514895$ Succeeds in finding the passage to india: 1498- vasco de gama. Makes the quickest way from europe to india before the.
