Kozhikode

Chapter 27: Asian Transitions in an Age of Global Change How was this scholar-gentry revival different from past ones? In what ways was it similar to past revivals? How important is trade in this chapter? What were some major changes in trade that helped facilitate it? This chapter is going to give us a lot of background information on Japan. But it will also give us some info on the English and the Dutch and how their dominance affected Asia. The Asian Trading World and the Coming of the Europeans Trading Empire: The Portuguese Response to the Encounter at Calicut The Portuguese weren?t ready to play by the unspoken rules They only had gold and silver to trade They wanted to undermine the Muslims in trade