the european voyages and how they changed the world
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2. oThe Asian economy was on the rise
ever since Islam started growing
during the seventeenth century.
oThis meant that a particular
supremacy, he Islamic caliphate would
guaranty safe route connecting two
worlds, Mediterranean and the Indian
Ocean.
oVarious commodities were exchanged
across enormous distances
oNot just luxury commodities but also
bulky necessities such as flour and
firewood
3. oDrugs are well thought-out as drugs if
they are ingested, smoked, sniffed, or get
you intoxicated and produce an altered
state of being.
oIn other cultures some drugs are seen
as medicine and sacraments of religious
rites.
oCoffee and tobacco were banned
initially in consuming countries, but
eventually they decided to tax
consumers for these delicacies.
4. oTenochtitlan was a market for trading that when Spanish conquistadors saw it and
were surprised.
oThere is one square that is so big all enclosed by arcades, were more than sixty
thousand souls are bought and sold.
oThey sold great quantities of people and goods; Spanish conquistadors had never
see such thing before.
5. oThe potato just second-class food in
its homeland.
o The potato was never brought as far
as Colombia and only grown in the
mountains.
oThey thought of it as poisonous not
suited for trade but crises fashioned
the need for the potato.
oIn the present day the potato is the
second biggest food crop in the world.
6.
7. oThe effect of the smoke gave the
Indians a more aggressive effect
than the Europeans.
oApproximately the cusp of
Europe, in china and Japan, in
India, the middle east, and along
the coast of Africa-and the common
folk who saw sailors smoke began
themselves to fire the demonic
vegetable.
oThe Europeans was that were
their was smoke their was money
to be made.
8.
9. oThe cocoa bean had been prized by Mesoamerica before the time of Christ.
oThe first civilization in America thought the Mayan civilization how to use
the cocoa and so passed the tradition of the cocoa.
oIt was prized for its pharmaceutical effect
and for its rarity in its taste.
oSolders would drink the cocoa before battle
to steel them; the king Montezuma would
drink it before he would make love to his
many wives.
oThe cocoa bean was also used to cure fever,
cough and anxiety.
