https://padlet.com/mhorne10/wabenrktkgdumc9q Use this map to orient yourself to the place names discussed in the reading. en-us 2020-09-22 17:58:12 UTC 2023-01-23 22:05:14 UTC hello@padlet.com mhorne10 https://padlet.com/mhorne10/wabenrktkgdumc9q/wish/769427662 Islands in Indonesia that were a major source of nutmeg and clove.  Dutch traders found that people here wanted Indian textiles in exchange for spice.]]> 2020-09-22 17:59:12 UTC https://padlet.com/mhorne10/wabenrktkgdumc9q/wish/769427662 mhorne10 https://padlet.com/mhorne10/wabenrktkgdumc9q/wish/769437944 A major source and trading center for Indian textilles]]> 2020-09-22 18:01:05 UTC https://padlet.com/mhorne10/wabenrktkgdumc9q/wish/769437944 mhorne10 https://padlet.com/mhorne10/wabenrktkgdumc9q/wish/769442638 A region of India conquered by the British East India Company in 1757.]]> 2020-09-22 18:02:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mhorne10/wabenrktkgdumc9q/wish/769442638 mhorne10 https://padlet.com/mhorne10/wabenrktkgdumc9q/wish/769445606 A city in present day Bangladesh that was a major textile producing city in the 1700s. ]]> 2020-09-22 18:02:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mhorne10/wabenrktkgdumc9q/wish/769445606 mhorne10 https://padlet.com/mhorne10/wabenrktkgdumc9q/wish/769450804 After conquering Bengal, the British East India Company would go on to directly or indirectly control most of the Indian subcontinent by the 1800s.]]> 2020-09-22 18:03:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mhorne10/wabenrktkgdumc9q/wish/769450804 mhorne10 https://padlet.com/mhorne10/wabenrktkgdumc9q/wish/769454175 The seat of the British Empire, the British would create a huge empire in the 1800s that included control of India]]> 2020-09-22 18:04:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mhorne10/wabenrktkgdumc9q/wish/769454175 mhorne10 https://padlet.com/mhorne10/wabenrktkgdumc9q/wish/769652569 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 18:47:43 UTC https://padlet.com/mhorne10/wabenrktkgdumc9q/wish/769652569 mhorne10 https://padlet.com/mhorne10/wabenrktkgdumc9q/wish/769653952 Not mentioned in the reading, 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 18:48:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mhorne10/wabenrktkgdumc9q/wish/769653952 mhorne10 https://padlet.com/mhorne10/wabenrktkgdumc9q/wish/769656391 Not mentioned in the reading, these seasonal winds were how merchants and traders navigated the Indian Ocean.]]> 2020-09-22 18:48:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mhorne10/wabenrktkgdumc9q/wish/769656391