https://padlet.com/mhorne10/9c604gctjhn0mqwm Use this map to orient yourself to the place names discussed in the reading. en-us 2020-09-22 18:06:42 UTC 2023-01-23 22:05:14 UTC hello@padlet.com mhorne10 https://padlet.com/mhorne10/9c604gctjhn0mqwm/wish/769548582 Place where pepper is native to and was originally produced. Even today, pepper from this region is considered the best.]]> 2020-09-22 18:23:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mhorne10/9c604gctjhn0mqwm/wish/769548582 mhorne10 https://padlet.com/mhorne10/9c604gctjhn0mqwm/wish/769552930 During this time period, Venice was an independent city-state with it's own government. It controlled the pepper trade between Europe and Asia, and was the major port where it was imported.]]> 2020-09-22 18:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mhorne10/9c604gctjhn0mqwm/wish/769552930 mhorne10 https://padlet.com/mhorne10/9c604gctjhn0mqwm/wish/769556675 Not mentioned in the reading, but important to know.  This waterway was the main route to the spice islands where they traded for nutmeg and clove, and thus was very strategic to control.  As the saying went, ""whoever is Lord of Malacca has his hand on the throat of Venice."]]> 2020-09-22 18:25:22 UTC https://padlet.com/mhorne10/9c604gctjhn0mqwm/wish/769556675 mhorne10 https://padlet.com/mhorne10/9c604gctjhn0mqwm/wish/769564341 The southern tip of Africa.  Dangerous to sail through, the Portuguese were the first Europeans to sail around the tip to reach India.  European merchants all had to sail around the southern tip of Africa in order to participate in Indian Ocean trade up until the 1800s, when a canal was built in Egypt that provided a shortcut.]]> 2020-09-22 18:27:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mhorne10/9c604gctjhn0mqwm/wish/769564341 mhorne10 https://padlet.com/mhorne10/9c604gctjhn0mqwm/wish/769566935 De Gama and other sailors would need to use the monsoon winds to navigate the Indian Ocean.]]> 2020-09-22 18:27:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mhorne10/9c604gctjhn0mqwm/wish/769566935 mhorne10 https://padlet.com/mhorne10/9c604gctjhn0mqwm/wish/769569113 The Venetian's rivals, they eventually wrest away control of the spice trade.]]> 2020-09-22 18:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mhorne10/9c604gctjhn0mqwm/wish/769569113 mhorne10 https://padlet.com/mhorne10/9c604gctjhn0mqwm/wish/769572409 Was the center of pepper trade in the thirteen colonies. The pepper trade produced the USA's first millionaire, who founded Yale University.]]> 2020-09-22 18:28:49 UTC https://padlet.com/mhorne10/9c604gctjhn0mqwm/wish/769572409 mhorne10 https://padlet.com/mhorne10/9c604gctjhn0mqwm/wish/769651453 Not mentioned in the reading, after it was built in 1869 it provided a shortcut for Europeans to the Indian Ocean, and they no longer had to sail around Africa or deal with Muslim merchant middlemen.]]> 2020-09-22 18:47:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mhorne10/9c604gctjhn0mqwm/wish/769651453