Vasco da Gama’s departure to India, in 1497
Read chapter 9 below, pp. 320-324. As you do so, consider the following questions:
- What global networks of exchange were developed by Spanish and Portuguese merchants, and later Dutch and English merchants, in the seventeenth century?
- How did religion, politics and commerce influence global exploration and settlement?
Hutton Webster, World History, Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., 1921, pp. 320-324.
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Read chapter 9 below, pp. 320-324. As you do so, consider the following questions:
Hutton Webster, World History, Boston: D.C. Heath and Co., 1921, pp. 320-324.
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