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What are the three elements that we are focusing on?
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Statebuilding
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Increased Contact and Trade
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Spread and Increase of Religion
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How did De Gamma impact Increased Contact and Trade?
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He traveled around the coast of Africa, and made contact with their cities, when he conquered them and transformed them into a growing trade empire.
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How did Zheng He impact Increased Contact and Trade?
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Zheng He traveled not to trade with other countries, but to bring princes to China so that they may present gifts to the emperor in order to gain the ability to trade with China.
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How did Columbus impact Increased Contact and Trade?
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Columbus made contact with the New World, by accident. His contact lead to the transportation of resources between the Old and New World, which would impact trade.
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What are significant differences between China's Statebuilding and Spain's Statebuilding?
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China had a language that helped to unify the state.
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Spain had many languages being spoken throughout and lacked the unity that China possessed.
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What is the significance of Malacca, in terms of increased contact and trade?
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It was considered a great place to trade and get goods. Kind of like a mall. Malacca = Mall.
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What was Statebuilding and Increased Contact and Trade like when related to the Venetians?
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Venetians acted as middlemen for goods, and made profit off of the movement of goods.
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What do Jewish customs have to do with the spread and change of religion?
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Jewish people were segregated from others, as a part of their practice they bathe unlike Christians, and were forced into positions like being doctors and bankers. This means that many Jewish people knew about medicine, clean, and segregated from others which allows them to dodge the sick. This meant that Jewish people were in better health, and able to survive negative effects of disease and spread religion.
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How did Antisemitism in Europe affect Statebuilding and the change and spread of religion?
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Europe's culture was heavily antisemitic (Statebuilding). Antisemitism in Europe lead to the persecution of Jewish people, which negatively affects the spread of the Jewish religion.
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How did killing Jews help European Statebuilding and the spread and growth of religion?
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Jewish people were given the choice to become Christian or die. Converting Jewish people lead to the spread and change of religion. Those Jewish people who were killed then lost their property to the state, which allowed for the state to grow.
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How did the exile of Jewish people from Europe to the Ottoman empire impact Statebuilding in the Ottoman Empire?
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The increase of Jewish people in the Ottoman Empire spurred the economy, development, and innovation of the Ottoman Empire.
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In England people could buy positions of power, how did that impact Statebuilding in England?
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Paying to become a member of the English bureaucracy gave money to the state. This helped to offset the power of old money, which helped to keep old families from simply holding power over the government.
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Henry the Eighth said fuck Catholicism, I am the head of the Anglican Church, so how did that impact Statebuilding and the Spread and Change of Religion in England?
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All Catholic property went to the state. Henry the Eighth became the head of the Anglican Church so he increased the spread of Christianity while decreasing the spread of Catholicism.
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If your society has lords who have more military power than the state, how does the state gain control in order to sustain power and practice statebuilding?
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The government has to build their own military that is always ready for action, unlike the military power that lords possessed in which the military wasn't always prepared.
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If the military protects trade ships, and trade ships allow for the collection of wealth, and wealth allows for the purchase of government positions then what is the relationship between the government and wealth?
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The government helps you trade, so that you can become wealthy, so that you can buy a position in the government, and help trade.
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Why is mercantilism so important for increased contact and trade and statebuilding?
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They believed that wealth in the world is limited, so to grow the wealth of the state, many governments began increasing contact and trade in order to help gain as much wealth as possible.
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How does a state increase trade?
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By not isolating themselves, by practicing trade, and by protecting trade with military strength.
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What was the religion of Spain?
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What was the religion of England?
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What was the Spanish Inquisition, and what did that have to do with the spread and change of religion?
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Catholics vs Jews and Protestants
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Some cities stood against the Inquisition and didn't let inquisitors in.
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It was run by the church in Spain, and was a conquest built upon the spread and change of religion.
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Why is mercantilism so important for increased contact and trade?
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They believed that wealth in the world is limited, so that many governments began increasing contact and trade in order to help gain as much wealth as possible.
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What was the main religion of Europe?
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Protestant
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What was the main religion of Spain?
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What was the Spanish Inquisition?
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The Catholic church sent inquisitors against Jewish people and Protestants.
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Some cities resist the intrusion of Inquisitors.
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What hurt contact and trade with Europe and China?
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China isolated itself, Europe lacked the technology to contact China and therefore trade with them
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