UGC 112 Lecture 3: 2.7.17 lecture 3 expansion of trade
14 Feb 2017
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In late medieval europe, land as the source of power was beginning to have to share with trade. Upgrade: ceramics, clothes, food -> china, silk, spices, cloves, sugar. No sewers buckets and things instead. Medicine: no anesthetics linen flax the east via middlemen. As trade expanded, so did demand for luxury items porcelain, silk, cotton cloth, sugar, spices all from. But about 1400 (on) there was at least one major interruption in the land trade route east the. Answer: form a depot (place to deposit and sell until rain stops) e. g. malacca: temporarily free of spain, was wealthier than it had been, had ambitious prince henry who was interested in, conquest, trade, exploration. All three of these can be named one thing: colonialism. Came across the sahara desert 1000 miles one way took 3 months each way. 1415: capture of ceuta marked beginning of european expansion. Portuguese reach india 1499 but the spanish want it!
