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All of Chapter 14

Hi, I took some notes and these are ones that seemed most important.

Chapter 14:
Many problems were caused from the pattern of trade coming from the East along the Mediterranean and into the Middle East known as the Indian Ocean network. 
Portuguese mariner Vasco de Gama was the first time that Europeans traveled into India.
Venetians didn't like the Muslims monopoly on the network and Venice was one of the places where most trading occured. 
Europeans had to pay in cash meaning in gold or silver for Asian spices and textiles, leaving them with a large supply of gold and silver.
Portugal targeted the African gold goldfields. Portugal noticed that the typical trading ships in the Indian network were not armed or militarized all that good. 
Europeans ran into the idea that their trading products were seen as rough and unwanted in Asian markets.
The Europeans went to piracy and established fortified bases in the Indian Ocean, or the trading post empire. 
Portugal's trading post empire declined by the 1600s and Spain was the first to try and challenge Portugal. 
The Spanish took over the Philippines 
Asian military figures had unified Japan politically around the years 1601-1700 
Resident communities continued to dominate in China in the growing spice trade even with expanding Europeans power. 
Commercial networks continued to be successful even as Europe grew militarily.
The fur trade was well known during the early modern era. 
The French obtained most of their fur from the St. Lawrence valley.
British traders took over the Hudson Bay region and the Dutch primarily had control over the Hudson River.
Europeans made the Native Americans do the work and hunt the fur in exchange for gifts such as weapons, textiles, and brandy.
Trapping caused environmental damage to beaver populations in the United States because habitats were degraded which almost led to their extinction.
African people were taken by elites in and sent to the Caribbean, America, and the Mediterranean during the Atlantic Slave Trade.
In the Americas, the African slave trade brought diversity into their society. 
Slaves were not viewed as equals but seen as property and many began to lose their identities when going into the society of their owners. 
Slaves in the Islamic world were given prominent military or political status.
Many of the slaves that were transferred, died because they caught diseases.

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