32. What do you think Landes means by Portugal’s “leap beyond sense and sensibility”? (Or their “unreasonable initiative”?) Portugal was a small country that exported goods across its many islands. After some time passed, the country decided to turn it’s trading harbors and islands into the Portuguese empire. They did not have the means or manpower to run the empire but were persistent in their choice.
33. What does Landes mean, that the Portuguese “religious commitment entailed a serious commercial disadvantage”? Why would it be a “disadvantage”? Landes means that the Portuguese religious beliefs caused many outbreaks of war and could have been handled in a much more distinguished manner. Instead, Portugal saw the Muslims as foes and …show more content…
They were separate forces and each one fought constantly with others; so, they set up the Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC. The VOC worked together for money as well as spices for the trading company.
40. What was the “country trade”?
The country trade was the movement of cargoes from one Asian point to another. For example, “cottons from Coromandel to Indonesia and China, silks from China, Tonkin, India, and Persia to Manila and on to New Spain (Mexico), bullion and specie from Japan and the Philippines (out of Mexico), tea and gold from China, coffee from Mocha and later Java, slaves from Arakan, Buton, and Bali” (pg. 145) were all used in the country trade.
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41. How did the English enter the system already in operation in the East? It was due to an English squadron intercepting Spanish forces. When they found the treasure aboard the Spanish patrol, the Englishmen could not believe their eyes and quickly packaged all the treasure for England. When they returned to England, they were met by the looters and a half million pounds were reduced to only one hundred and forty thousand. This led the English to begin trading like the
33. What does Landes mean, that the Portuguese “religious commitment entailed a serious commercial disadvantage”? Why would it be a “disadvantage”? Landes means that the Portuguese religious beliefs caused many outbreaks of war and could have been handled in a much more distinguished manner. Instead, Portugal saw the Muslims as foes and …show more content…
They were separate forces and each one fought constantly with others; so, they set up the Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie or VOC. The VOC worked together for money as well as spices for the trading company.
40. What was the “country trade”?
The country trade was the movement of cargoes from one Asian point to another. For example, “cottons from Coromandel to Indonesia and China, silks from China, Tonkin, India, and Persia to Manila and on to New Spain (Mexico), bullion and specie from Japan and the Philippines (out of Mexico), tea and gold from China, coffee from Mocha and later Java, slaves from Arakan, Buton, and Bali” (pg. 145) were all used in the country trade.
Chapter 11
41. How did the English enter the system already in operation in the East? It was due to an English squadron intercepting Spanish forces. When they found the treasure aboard the Spanish patrol, the Englishmen could not believe their eyes and quickly packaged all the treasure for England. When they returned to England, they were met by the looters and a half million pounds were reduced to only one hundred and forty thousand. This led the English to begin trading like the