Essay Help! European Colonization

**The Wizard** · 02-16-2007, 20:09

Add in the fact that the Muslim world already had the Silk Road, and in general pretty strong connections with the Far East were long established. Meanwhile, the Chinese and other Far Easterners were far more concerned with their particular localities ("cooked barbarians" over "raw" ones, and all that good stuff), and as such weren't very interested in bypassing the Middle Eastern trade hub (and weren't very interested in anything outside of the Middle Kingdom and environs in the first place).

That, opposed to the lack of such ideas in Europe; the Europeans were also very interested in bypassing the Middle East, which was largely controlled by a powerful and aggressive enemy of theirs: the Ottomans.

**TinCow** · 02-17-2007, 03:17

The question you're asking as essentially what Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel deals with. I would highly recommend at reading, or at least skimming, this book before you start writing.

**Avicenna** · 02-22-2007, 18:15

The Chinese Emperor has a mandate of heaven, which means he is ruler of all he views. He has no need to conquer the world. Tribute will do, thank you very much.

**Veho Nex** · 02-22-2007, 19:55

Well French dutch and british had better navies while the asians prefered junks which cant go very far. muslim word wanted to stay in the so called
"holly land". I think columbus was from spain and that he was looking for a safer route to "india" but some say he wasn't. English needed more colonies because they were running out of room in tiny ass britain. Well i think after a while the muslims came over here but my memory on this stuff isn't very good so this is about as much as i have Gl with your test.

**KARTLOS** · 02-22-2007, 23:05

have a look at the book 1421. it has been proposed that the chinese fleet of zheng hi did discover america as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He

it doesnt really matter who got there first i guess as what really matters is what you did about it.

**Marshal Murat** · 02-22-2007, 23:28

Junks are very good a weathering the sea.
Considering a Ming (?) trading fleet managed to sail from China to Africa. With boats about 100 ft long and up.

**Incongruous** · 02-23-2007, 08:05

Originally Posted by Marshal Murat

Junks are very good a weathering the sea.
Considering a Ming (?) trading fleet managed to sail from China to Africa. With boats about 100 ft long and up.

Most Historians consider the greater legnths of some junks to be overestimations, and impractical.

**Veho Nex** · 02-24-2007, 04:03

Originally Posted by KARTLOS

have a look at the book 1421. it has been proposed that the chinese fleet of zheng hi did discover america as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zheng_He

it doesnt really matter who got there first i guess as what really matters is what you did about it.

But im not one to trust wikipedia i read this thought it was interesting guess ill do some research later on