Question

Need help!!!!Read the following document and then write a paragraph in which you:

describe the document as evidence to uphold an argument you are making in the thesis.
analyze its source (HIPP - this must relate back to the prompt & thesis as well)
give an additional example (evidence beyond the document) that could further support the thesis/argument
**I understand you don't have an actual thesis statement to follow, but you can assume what one part of the thesis (argument/claim) could be just by reading one document and what the prompt is asking you to write about.

Prompt: Evaluate the extent that technological developments affected interregional connections between 1400 and 1750.

Girolamo Priuli, a noble of Venice, from his diary, 1501

This news, as has been said above, was considered very bad news for the city of Venice...Whence it is that the King of Portugal has found this new voyage, and that the spices which were expected which should come from Calicut [Calcutta], Cochin, and other places in India, to Alexandria or Beirut, and later come to Venice, and in this place become monopolized, whence all the world comes to buy such spicery and carry gold, silver, and every other merchandise, with which money the war is sustained; today, with this new voyage by the King of Portugal, all the spices which came by way of Cairo will be controlled in Portugal, because of the caravels which will go to India, to Calicut, and other places to take them. And in this way the Venetians will not be able to take spices either in Alexandria or Beirut.

Answer 1

Vasco da Gama

Step-by-step explanation:

The noble of Venice is referring to the discovery voyage Vasco da Gama made in the 1490´s. He discovered the best way to use the Atlantic winds to reach Cape of Good Hope; from there he went on to finally make it to the Indian subcontinent. The financial backing for the Portugese ventures came from Genoa, the rival of Venice. Genoa saw it´s silk trade severely damaged by the fall of Constantinopel in 1453, whereas Venice continued it´s monopoly on the spices trade. But when the Portuguese reached India in 1498, the good times where over for Venice.

The Portuguese were skilled sailors and they were furthermore helped by the Scientific Revolution that took place during the Renaissance. The invention of the Compass and the Astrolabe enabled them to find their way at sea. So from 1500 on the glory days of Mediterranean trade ended and Atlantic trade emerged.