Asian+Transitions+in+an+Age+of+Global+Change


 * Trading Empire: the Portuguese response to the Encounter at Calicut **

** MI: ** Portuguese take by forced to gain monopoly power against Asia due to their weak military

-Army force: power of strong boats and weaponry able to over through that of the Chinese Junks -Portuguese arrival by force takes Europeans by surprise pushing adversaries off balance in time of Empire building
 * Portuguese take by force what they could not get through fair trade

-Portuguese take deep divisions of Asian competitors and lack of naval groupings to advance

-1507-on Portuguese capture towns and build fortress at points of Asian trading networks ** Taken Ports ** Ormuz- taken at the south of Persian Gulf 1510  Goa on western Indian Coast  Malacca on the tip of Malayan Peninsula
 * Served as naval ports for Portuguese

-Dictating of goods -Licensing system of all merchant ships that traded at any port

** Portuguese Vulnerability and the Rise of the Dutch and English trading Empires **

** MI: Portugese never officaly set up monarchy due to Asian defiance. English and Dutch come in early 17th century however english pull out and Dutch slowly loose power due to decline in spice economy and decrease in money **

-No control of key markets that contained important spices such as pepper and cinnamon -Asian defiance of cutting off heads, transporting spices without consent
 * Portuguese plans never become reality

-Dutch overthrow Portuguese port of Malacca and created their own of Batavia on the island of Java -English can not take control of spices and falls back to India
 * Dutch and English – 17th century

-Dutch trading company similar to that of Portuguese however more military power and organized monopoly -Spices demand declines lowering the Dutch to follow European Enterprise practice


 * Going Ashore: European tribute system in Asia **

-Europeans take to "knowing their place" in Asian lines -spanish failure of conquering Mindanao.-single kingdom where Muslim rulers determined to resist christian dominance -Paid by agricultural product by peasantry labor systems -little people head way on high-cast people -conversion only going in isolated places-Phillipiens -Frirars-priests who go out to convert
 * MI:Europe follow similar ways to those of the Portuguese; however more systematic. After time Europeans learned their place and continued economic through trade systems of agricultural peasants**
 * Force way into Asian trading by force moving through inland
 * Asians resist Europeans inroads into their domains
 * Conquest of Luzon Spanish subjugated
 * Europeans set up tribute regimes that resemble the Spanish
 * Spreading the faith: the Missionary enterprise in south and southeast Asia
 * spread of roman Catholicism-Mission of Portuguese and Spanish
 * India-promising fields for religious conversion
 * Jesuit Francis Xvier-Minister to poor who converted thousands
 * Robert Nobili conversion strategy by learning the foreign language- EPIC fail

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· Scholars take interest in European and Western thinking · Officials humiliated by the foreigners correcting of their calendars and spread hostility ||  · Alarmed by reports of conversion · Resistance in general and use of violence in order to kick out the Europeans from Japan · Isolation-Tokugawa Ieyasu kicks Jesuits out · Nobunaga uses Europeans use of conversion to Christianity as a way to lighten the oppressive powers of the Buddhists order ||
 * China ||  Japan  ||
 * · Ming emperor become prime targets of Jesuit mission