E2020

Monopoly to control all, or most, of trade in a particular product, good, or service

isolation separation; being set apart from others

Dutch East India Company a company that was formed by the Netherlands to conduct trade in Asia

kowtow to kneel down out of great respect so that your forehead touches the ground

Missionary a person who tries to convert others to his or her religious beliefs

Obj1 Identify the reasons why Europeans wanted to trade in Asia. 8 Obj2 Explain how the Dutch created a trading empire. 9 Obj3 Explore why Asian countries were resistant to change especially westernization. 9 Europe offered little the the way of products and benefited more from the inventions and ideas of Asia than Asia benefited from Europe’s.

“… the kow-tow!—the arrogant and insupportable pretensions of China, that she will hold commercial intercourse with mankind not upon terms of equal reciprocity, but upon insulting and degrading forms of relation between lord and vassal.”

Nations and societies have a tendency to see things from their own perspective and believe that their perspective is superior.

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05-08

term definition

astrolabe an instrument that was used to find and calculate the positions of stars and objects in space

Treaty of Tordesillas an agreement made between Spain in Portugal in 1494 to settle disagreements over land discovered by explorers in the late 15th century

cartography

conquedred by the Muslims

Explain European motivations for exploration. Identify the impact each exploration and explorer made on society. Determine how new technologies improve travel for exploration.