In his exaggeration at the success of the trip, he even claims that “The seaports there are incredibly fine, as also the magnificent rivers, most of which bear gold.” Columbus says he had taken control of the islands for the highness King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, who had financed the trips to the New World. The procedure he used to take possession is by holding up the Royal Standard. He gave gifts wherever he went, and made sure his men were not giving out objects of minimal value. His extreme generosity meant that he quickly gained the trust of the people he encountered, to the point he began referred to as the man from heaven. This is ironic because it is originally Columbus who thought he had found Eden from the Bible when he came across the islands.
“Under the Abbasids, the center of the Moslem world was the city of Baghdad…not chosen by inadvertence…” says Document A. One of the reasons the city of Baghdad was chosen as the capital city of the Moslem world was because of its location near the silk road so that, as said in Document A, “if the pilgrimage caravans made only one round trip a year in the prescribed season, it was the traders, who as always, kept the Silk Road active all year round.” The location near the Silk Road gave traders and advantage to trading in China, which created a vital link in trading. Page 132 in the World History book says that” Muslim…traders traveled the Silk Road toward China and were a vital link in the exchange of goods between East Asia and Europe.” This trade helped to spread culture and technology; Arabic
When the ship was safely in the ocean, Balboa came out of hiding. The captain, Martín Fernández de Enciso, wanted him to walk the plank, but Balboa convinced and proved that he could be a good soldier, so he stayed on board. When they got to their destination, it was destroyed! Balboa leaded the survivors to Panama. They started a colony, called Darien.
Classical societies traded in the Silk Road because it was the fastest and cheapest to do. Their marine trading was not as developed. But when they collapsed the Silk Road trading dropped and marine trading picked up. The Indian Ocean Basin trade took its place because it was faster and cheaper, as boats and marine technology improved. When the Mongols came to power, the Silk Road trading increased because the Mongols supported for they never had to deal with marine trading.
China was completely contrary from Central Africa on economic, political, and cultural bases during the 1500-1800. From 1000-1500 China led the world in economic development and there after experiencing the trauma of rule by the Yuan Dynasty, China adopted policies that favoured Chinese political and cultural tradition. On the other hand, the kingdoms of central Africa had initiated commercial relations with Portuguese merchants and diplomatic relations with Portuguese monarchy. Portuguese traded for slaves and slave trade undetermined the authority of the King. The Kings were converts of Christianity just to establish closer relations with Portuguese whereas Chinese has great problems with the exclusivity of Christianity but the Jesuits were respectful of Chinese culture and won a few converts.
From the very beginning when Christopher Columbus arrived at the “Indies” he assumed that he can take it to his advantage in using the natives as his personal slaves. He demanded to know where the gold was since this was what he was out to do from the highest authority of Spain. On October 1492 he had arrived to distant islands and was greeted by local Indians. They where wearing what he came to look for and managed to convince them to show him the way in which they had collected this precious metal. Gold was very important to him and specially the Anarchy.
Because many imported drugs were scarce and expensive, physicians made great use of native plants valuable for their medicinal qualities. These could be readily found in the woods. The first pharmacopoeia ever printed in British America was published in Philadelphia in 1778. Written by Dr. William Brown, intended for use at military hospitals, listed the simplest, cheapest, and most accessible drugs. (Peterson
2) More profit could have been made if Almin did not cut down on promotion. C. Competitive market: 1) Almin believes the Middle Eastern culture of good product and little to nothing promotion is the best way. 2) The former manager believes the western strategy of promotion and marketing is the best way. D. Marketing Mix: 1) All Shave razors and products are sold in the Middles East (Saudi) not USA. 2) Not enough promotions and advertisement.
By the same token, they left out many details and presented in some cases obvious bias, resulting in the accuracy and validity of their stories of these natives being weakened, debilitating the accurate knowledge of our history today. Christopher Columbus was considered the first successful explorer to have explored the New World. Under the rule and funding of the King of Spain, this expedition was for his majesty King Ferdinand, “ Because my undertakings have attained success, I know that it will be pleasing to you: these I have determined to relate, so that you may be made acquainted with everything done and discovered in this our voyage.” Automatically we are shown his writings about his discoveries and encounters are filtered to comfort the King who is funding the project. Columbus’s hidden goal was to most probably attain more land for sea trade and domain in general for his European homeland, but also to convert the populace of the New World to Christianity, “ and I gave to them many beautiful and pleasing things that I had brought with me, no value being taken in exchange, in order that I might the more easily make them friendly to me, that they might be made worshipers of Christ”. The culture, well-being and reactions of the natives seemed to be trivial facts, as
There were two main factors not originating in Southeast Asia that contributed to the economic development of Southeast Asia, the Crusades and the policy of the Chinese government. The Crusades contributed to the economical development by creating a demand for Asian products in Europe. This would include the spices that were found in Southeast Asia. Because the demand for the spices was high, so was the flow of goods and money. This opened up trade routes between Asia and Europe with most of the goods originating or passing through Southeast Asia.