UNIT 4 TransOceanic Interconnections Period 2 1450 1750
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UNIT 4: Trans-Oceanic Interconnections Period: 2 – 1450 - 1750
Doc 1 In Alfred Crosby’s ‘The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492’, published in 1972, he argued for a different way of looking at the impact of the voyages of discovery on both the Americas and Europe. The Columbian Exchange: “How non-human life-forms can change the course of history”, The Irish Times, theirishtimes. com, 2018
Doc 2 The Heliocentric Theory: The Copernican System, 18 th C. French engraving, “The Scientific Revolution”, britannica. com
Doc 3 Suleiman I, aka Suleiman “the Magnificent” in the West, and “the Lawmaker” in the east, was the tenth and longest-reigning Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1520 until his death in 1566. Portrait of Suleiman, Titian, circa 1530. Getty Images.
Doc 4 A The “Swahili Coast”, Portuguese Map, Circa, 1500. Oxford Research Encyclopedia Doc 4 B “Cultural Blending, Monsoons & the Indian Ocean Trade Networks”, Map, globaltimemachine. com, 2014.
Doc 5 “Soft Gold” – The Russian Fur Trade in Siberia, circa 18 th C. – artist unknown
Doc 6 V. O. C. / Dutch East India Co. Ships at Chittagong / Arakan, Burma – Etching – circa 1663 – unknown artist
Doc 7 French Enlightenment philosopher, Francois Marie d’Arouet – aka “Voltaire”, (1694 -1778). Statusmind. com
Doc 8 The Qing dynasty, (aka The Manchus), was the last imperial dynasty of China. It was established in 1636, by Emperor Hong Taiji (1592– 1643) and ruled until 1911, “A Crash Course in Diplomacy”, U. S. Naval Institute, usni. org
Doc 9 “The Great Dying: Small Pox in the Americas”. Aztec drawing of smallpox victims. 16 th C. artist unknown, Viruses, Plagues, and History: Past, Present and Future, Oxford University Press, USA, 2009
