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Vasco Da Gama and Portuguese Exploration FIRST EDITION BAYLOR UNIVERSITY BY ZACHARY WINGERD CONTENTS Bassim Hamadeh, CEO and Publisher Kassie Graves, Director of Acquisitions Jamie Giganti, Senior Managing Editor Miguel Macias, Senior Graphic Designer Bob Farrell, Senior Field Acquisitions Editor Gem Rabanera, Project Editor Elizabeth Rowe, Licensing Coordinator Christian Berk, Associate Editor Kat Ragudos, Interior Designer Copyright © 2017 by Cognella, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reprinted, reproduced, transmitted, or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying, microfilming, and recording, or in any information retrieval system without the written permission of Cognella, Inc. Trademark Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe. 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Printed in the United States of America ISBN: 978-1-5165-1060-3 (pb) / 978-1-5165-1061-0 (br) CHAPTER 3 Vasco Da Gama and Conversations in Modern Portuguese Exploration: World History The Circumnavigation �����������������������������������������i of Africa and the Nascent Fifty Voices from 1400 to Portuguese Empire Present ��������������������������������������25 �����������������������������������������i Interacting with Past Table of Contents Perspectives: Vasco Da CHAPTER 6 Gama, “Journal of the �������������������������������������� iii First Voyage” (1498) Nzinga Mbemba (Afonso I) ........................................30 and Political Power on the West Coast of Africa: The Kingdom of Kongo and the CONTENTS African Slave Trade CHAPTER 4 �������������������������������������� 49 Introduction: History as Conversation Motecuhzoma the Interacting with Past ����������������������������������������1 Younger and Euro-Mexica Perspectives: Nzinga Mbemba Encounters: The Aztec (Afonso I), “Letters to the Empire and Spanish King of Portugal” (1526) Crusading in the Americas ........................................ 54 ��������������������������������������33 CHAPTER 1 Interacting with Past Ma Huan and Chinese Perspectives: Motecuhzoma, CHAPTER 7 Oceanic Excursions: “Aztec Accounts of the Ming China, Zheng He’s Spanish Entrada into Francis Xavier and Voyages, and the Indian Mexico” (1519–1520) Catholic Ocean World ........................................37 Missions in Asia: ����������������������������������������7 Iberian Jesuits, Japanese Interacting with Past Shoguns, and the Counter Perspectives: Ma Huan, Reformation “The Country of Ku-Li CHAPTER 5 �������������������������������������� 57 [Calicut]” (1433) Martin Luther and the Interacting with Past ........................................13 Division of Western Perspectives: Francis Xavier, Christendom: The Holy “Letter from India, to the Roman Empire, the Society of Jesus at Rome” Protestant Reformation, (1543) CHAPTER 2 and Ottoman Expansion ........................................ 61 Isabella I of Castile and the ��������������������������������������41 Medieval Mediterranean Interacting with Past World: The Unification of Perspectives: Martin Luther, Spain, the Reconquista, “Against the Robbing and the Jewish Diaspora and Murdering Hordes of ��������������������������������������17 Peasants” (1525) ........................................45 Interacting with Past Perspectives: Isabella I of Castile, “The Alhambra Decree” (1492) ........................................22 CHAPTER 11 ‘Abd-ul-Qadir Bada’uni and the Rise CHAPTER 17 of the Mughal Empire: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and CHAPTER 8 Religion and Imperialism “Enlightened” Politics: The Hans Staden and the in the Indian Subcontinent CHAPTER 14 European Enlightenment Transatlantic Development ��������������������������������������93 and the Social Contract Louis XIV and Divine of South America: ������������������������������������ 143 ‘Abd-al-Qadir Bada’uni, Right of Rule: Absolute Tupinamba, Brazilian “Chronicle concerning Akbar Monarchs, Atlantic Interacting with Past Sugar, and Quilombos and Religion” (1595) Perspectives: Jean-Jacques ��������������������������������������65 ........................................96 Slavery, and Caribbean Sugar Rousseau, “The Social Contract” (1762) Interacting with Past ������������������������������������117 Perspectives: Hans Staden, ...................................... 147 The Veritable History and Interacting with Past Description of a Country CHAPTER 12 Perspectives: Louis XIV, “Le belonging to the Wild, Elizabeth I and the Rise of Code Noir” (1685) ......................................121 Naked, Savage, Man-eating Protestant England: The CHAPTER 18 people, situated in the New Anglican Church, the Hasan al-Kafrawi and World, America (1557) Netherlands, and the ........................................69 Ottoman Egypt: Muslims, Spanish Armada CHAPTER 15 Christians, and Jews Under ������������������������������������101 Ottoman Law Peter the Great and ������������������������������������ 151 Interacting with Past Imperial Russia: CHAPTER 9 Perspectives: Elizabeth I Westernization and the Interacting with Past of England, “The Golden Diego de Landa and Great Northern War Perspectives: Hassan Speech” (1601) al-Kafrawi, “Islamic Canon Indigenous Resistance ������������������������������������127 ......................................104 Law Concerning Jews and in New Spain: The Great Interacting with Past Christians” (1772) Maya and Pueblo Revolts Perspectives: Peter the Great, ...................................... 156 ��������������������������������������75 “Edicts and Decrees” Interacting with Past CHAPTER 13 (1700–1723) ......................................131 Perspectives: Diego de Samuel de Champlain Landa, The Yucatan Before and the Rise of French CHAPTER 19 and After the Conquest America: New France, Thomas Paine and the (1566) ........................................79 Algonquin and Iroquois CHAPTER 16 American Revolution: Confederacies, and the The Glorious Revolution, Beaver Wars Tulišen and the Rise of French and Indian War, ������������������������������������109 the Manchu: Qing China, and British Empire CHAPTER 10 Chinese Rites Controversy, ������������������������������������ 161 Interacting with Past and the Canton System Perspectives: Samuel de Patriarch Jeremiah II ������������������������������������135 Interacting with Past and the Expansion of the Champlain, “Voyages” Perspectives: Thomas Paine, (1608–09) Interacting with Past Muslim States: The Fall of “Common Sense” (1776) ......................................113 Perspectives: Tulišen, ...................................... 166 Eastern Christendom, the Narrative of the Chinese Ottoman Empire, and the Embassy to the Khan of the Safavids Tourgouth Tartars (1723) ��������������������������������������83 ......................................139 Interacting with Past Perspectives: Jeremiah II, “The First Answer Concerning the Augsburg Confession” (1576) ........................................89 CHAPTER 23 CHAPTER 29 Napoleon Bonaparte and Nikolai Danilevskii and the New French Empire: Pan-Slavism: Russian The Napoleonic Wars and Conservatism, the Crimean the Congress of Vienna CHAPTER 20 War, and the Eastern ����������������������������������� 197 CHAPTER 26 Question Olaudah Equiano and Interacting with Past ������������������������������������247 Abolitionism: The Lin Zexu and the Decline Perspectives: Napoleon of Qing China: The Opium Interacting with Past Zong Massacre, Sierra Bonaparte, “Military Wars, Taiping Rebellion, Perspectives: Nikolai Leone, and Atlantic Addresses and Political and the Boxer Uprising Danilevskii, Russia and Emancipations Letters” (1812–1813) Europe (1869) ������������������������������������221 ������������������������������������171 ..................................... 200 ......................................251 Interacting with Past Interacting with Past Perspectives: Olaudah Perspectives: Lin Zexu, Equiano, The Interesting “Moral Advice to Queen Narrative of the Life of CHAPTER 24 Victoria” (1839) CHAPTER 30 Olaudah Equiano (1789) ......................................225 Simón de Bolívar and Fukuzawa Yukichi and the ......................................175 the Liberation of South Modernization of Japan: America: Latin American Meiji Restoration and the Wars for Independence CHAPTER 27 Japanese Empire ����������������������������������� 205 ������������������������������������255 CHAPTER 21 Karl Marx and the Interacting with Past Industrial Revolution: Interacting with Past Mary Wollstonecraft and Perspectives: Simón Bolívar, Revolutionary Women: British Factories, American Perspectives: Fukuzawa “Message to the Congress Yukichi, “Good-bye Asia” The French Revolution of Angostura” (1819) Cotton, and French Socialism (1885) and Women’s Rights ..................................... 209 ......................................260 ������������������������������������179 ������������������������������������229 Interacting with Past Interacting with Past Perspectives: Mary Perspectives: Karl Marx, Wollstonecraft, CHAPTER 25 “The Manifesto of the CHAPTER 31 A Vindication of the Antonio Lopez de Santa Communist Party” (1848) ......................................233 Max Nordau and the Rights of Woman (1792) Anna and Mexican ......................................183 Zionist Movement: Eastern Independence: Mexico, European Jews, Zionism, Comancheria, and US and the Dreyfus Affair Expansionism CHAPTER 28 ������������������������������������263
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