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Notes on video lecture:
1500-1700 Indian Ocean Trading system
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on September 30, 2013 (go to class or lectures)
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doubloon, Banda, Hormuz, Americas, consumption, Alexandria, Javanese, Caribbean, slaves, entrepôt, fortification, Aden
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triangular system of the Atlantic world
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Africa, Europe and the                 
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new models of colonies which augment this circulation
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exploitation of labor and natural resources
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this also began to change the relation between Europe and the rest of Eurasia
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Indonesia
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Batavia
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a                            with command over one of the great harbors of the new age
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Chinese and Portuguese traders meet
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majority population of                  and minority of Dutch rulers constructed a Baroque city in south-each Asia
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an American-style colony: to extract staples as commodities for other people's                       
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           Islands
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volcanic, rich soils
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forest cut down to produce furniture and ships for Europeans to be exported back to Europe
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in place of forests, plantations were set up: nutmeg, mace, commercially produced spice
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native population, like that of the                   , was almost completely wiped out
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Dutch recruited              from rest of Southeast Asia to work
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a booming Pacific slave trade to sustain this Dutch colony
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the creation of a Baroque world that changed our palates: sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves
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traded with the Spanish                  made from silver extracted from Peru
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Old to new spice trade
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Arab merchants were in control of the transaction of spices whose surplus of spices could be put into commercial networks that would send these spices around Afroeurasia
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as the Dutch take over, what used to be a luxury and preciosity, becomes a commodity
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what Asia offered to the European palette
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ways to embellish drab foods
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1500s: Indian Ocean was already a system of transaction and trade and merchant courts
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choke points in this system were special ports,                             , mercantile cities of many faiths, languages and nationalities
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most prevalent language Arabic, most common belief system was Islam
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dependent on trade
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e.g. Ancient             
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southern point of Iran at Strait of Hormuz
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no access to fresh water
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port of         
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southern Yemen
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no arable land
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all food had to be imported
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Muslim traders had control of these ports from Indonesia to the Red Sea and                     
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created powerful merchant classes
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made deals with Ottomans, who were sending out large expeditions and fleet
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also with princes of Moghul, India (Mughal Empire, 1526-1857)
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1556-1707 spread of Mughal Empire
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create polities
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pact behind this dynamism
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while merchants would produce rents for private wealth, this could be turned into revenues through taxes for states thriving off the backs of this commercial system
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