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When Asia was the World
Transcript of When Asia was the World
Southeast Asian timber
Pepper and Partnerships: Abraham bin Yiju (Chapter 5)
The Asian World (500-1500 CE)
The key individual of this chapter was Ibn Fadlan.
During the 12th century, Abraham bin Yiju, started to spread his religion along the North African Mediterranean coast.
Ibn Battuta comes from a family of judges. Throughout his life, he traveled everywhere from Africa, India and the Philippines to South east Asia and the Middle East. Overall this was more than 73,000 miles.
Each Chapter is based on real events and people.
People loved these guys because of all the knowledge they had about all their experiences.
Beginning of 500-1500 C.E. Asia was a Wonderful happy place.
Made a lot of important achievements in this time
-Mathematics: algebra and zero were adopted.
-astronomers: tracked stars better than ever.
-poets and writers: wrote amazing lit. that warms hearts still to this day.
-Philosophers: generated ways of thinking that are still used to this day.
When Asia was the World
Meant for trading
Chapter 1 Monasteries and Monarchs
Lash-lug method of shipbuilding
primarily wood, no metal interlocking design
*This lets the ship flex and bend under pressure, not break
How it sank:
Sunk during a fatal storm
Treasure and Treaty
Like the US Navy, China also traveled around their world, showing off the might of their ships and by extension, the power of China
Traveled around the seas and demanded tribute from countries
They would promise assistance against invaders even though they were to far away to help very often
They did once help a country by
destroying some pirates and
once regaining a King's throne.
They still got their tribute
They got spices from India
(while considered civilized) their only worth while product was pepper.
9. Medicines and
Tomé Pires's travels through Southeast Asia,
Tome Pires, a Portuguese apothecary
who had a 'luxurious' childhood and came from a well-off family, was chosen by the governor of newly-captured Malacca to restore order because he appeared to be a 'diligent man' that could work trouble out.
Malacca had been recently overtaken
by the Portuguese in attempt to have a hold on Asia.
The Portuguese wanted to trade in Asia. Unfortunately, what they had to offer had already been traded to Asian towns via the Silk Roads and the eastern water routes.
Portuguese goods had no appeal to Asian areas due to higher costs because the trading routes were far more dangerous.
Key individual of this chapter was Ma Huan
Why would the Portuguese
32 year old, poor man who was hired as a translator for Arabic languages.
His writings are of the few still in existence from this time of trade and travel. Other documents were burned because the fleets lost support. His is 1 of 2 eye witness accounts still in existence
The Portuguese weren't ones to merely accept the fact that they couldn't trade.
They sailed all the way over to Asia, around Africa.
They were going to get involved, no matter what it took.
•Some ships were > 200 ft long. They carried water, warriors (more than 20,000), chinese goods, and space to transport their goods back to China.
•These ships were gone for more than 2 years at a time. They would sail together and then separate in order to stop at all of their locations
Instead of diplomatic negotiations regarding goods and recognizing
local culture and kings,
went for conquest.
The plan was simple:
Seize trading cities.
pay for itself.
•The ships were powered by sails and oars. Many had 4 decks.
When negotiations didn't go their way,
(A.K.A. the Muslim sultan drove them away by closing the station)
...the Portuguese returned with much stronger ships and attacked, claiming Malacca for themselves.
Now Pires gets involved
Tomé Pires was described as being in good health and rich'more than you can imagine' when he wrote home to family.
During his travels, he wrote detailed descriptions of plants, markets, and politics in maritime Asia, all in
So... how exactly did he describe such things?
To spread trade and diplomatic dominance of China from South-East Asia to Africa's east coast.
What it was carrying?
He was on the 4th fleet voyage.
Most likely Chinese or Polynesian
Sailing on the
Pires reached Malacca around June or July of 1512 CE
Medicinal plants were crucial to Asian trade, as it had been during Ma Huan's time.
Pepper, cardamom, edible camphor, benzoin, "cassia fistula", and "apothecary's lignaoes" we all still available from the Sumatra and Java.
East Islands had black benzoin, two kinds of camphor, cloves, nutmeg, mace, and white sandalwood.
> He was a mid class Muslim courier, living in Baghdad during the 900th century CE
During his travels, he received his wealth from many notable people.
Abraham was born into a Jewish family. His father was a rabbi, and Abraham was spreading his fathers teachings through trading.
Circa 1000 C.E
Was carrying raw materials & important goods from across A