FIRST GLOBAL ERA
Aden, Yemen
1-2. Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, 1572
Admiral Sidi Reis
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Ahmad Ibn Majid
1. Courtesy of Saudi Aramco World, Houston, TX
2. Courtesy of UAE Interact, supported by the National Media Council
Aztec Pouring Chocolate
1. © Museo de América, Madrid, Spain
2. Public domain
Bartholomeu Dias
1. © Bartolomeu Dias Museum Complex, Mossel Bay, South Africa
2. © Medios Digitales de COPESA, Icarito Encyclopedia
Bengal and Coromandel Cloth
1. ©The British Library Board, London
2. © V&A Images courtesy of The Science Museum and Peter Symonds College
Blue-White Porcelain Teaset from China
1. © Fairfax Country Park Authority Collections, VA
2. © The British Library Board, London
British East India Company Coat of Arms
1. © The British Library Board, London
2. Public domain
Bugis Traders and Mariners
1. © Michael Kasten
2. Public domain
Calcutta (Kolkata)
1. Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, 1572
2. Public Domain
Cannon - Bearing Ships
1. © National Maritime Museum, London
2. © Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, UK
Canton
© The Trustees of the British Museum
Cape of Good Hope
1. Courtesy of Robert Edward Lewand, Goucher College, Baltimore, MD
2. Public domain
Captain James Cook
1. Courtesy of CIA World Factbook and Demis Map Server
2. Courtesy of John Platek
Captain William Kidd
Courtesy of UnderwaterTimes.com (cannon)
Caravel
Henry C. Murphy. The Voyage of Verrazzano: A Chapter in the Early History of Maritime Discovery in America. New
York, 1875. Courtesy of the Atlas of Canada.
Carrack, or Nau
Courtesy of the Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia
Carreira da India
Courtesy of Fernando Gil
Ceylon
Courtesy of Cambridge University Library (Bry, India Orientalis, IV, 1601)
The Chronometer
© National Maritime Museum, London
Citrus Juice and Scurvy
1. © Tom Bown
2. © Otto Carl Berg & Carl Friedrich Schmidt , Darstellung und Beschreibung sämtlicher in der Pharmacopoea
Borusica aufgeführten offizinellen Gewächse, 1793
Cochin
1. Public Domain
2. © Phillip Walker, Jewish East End of London
Coffee
© The Trustees of the British Museum
Convict Colony at Botany Bay
1. © William Bradley, 'A Voyage to New South Wales', December 1786 - May 1792. Courtesy of State Library of
New South Wales, Australia
2. © Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI)
Cotton
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Decades of Asia by Joao de Barros
1. Photo courtesy of AJ, Portugal. Sculpture in Parque Aquilino Ribiero, Portugal
Dirk Hartog's Pewter Plate
1. © Rijksmuseum, Netherlands
2. © State Library of New South Wales, courtesy of the Heritage Collection Nelson Meers Foundation
Diu
Courtesy of Frances Pritchett, Columbia University
Dodo Bird
© The Natural History Museum, London
Dungarees (Jeans)
Courtesy of the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Ebony
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Estuaries on the Indian Coast
Courtesy of National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India
Ferdinand Magellan in Spain
1. © International Book Sales, Inc. Dover, NH
2. Courtesy of NASA
Floral Cotton Chintz
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Goa
Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, 1572
Gold, Girona Shipwreck
1-2. © Ulster Museum Folk and Transport Museum, UK
3. Courtesy of Culture24
Gold, Ivory, and Copper
1. Courtesy of Glendale Community College Earth Science Image Archive, Arizona
2. Courtesy of Dr. James R. Lee American University
3. Courtesy of Frances Pritchett, Columbia University
Gujarati Traders
1. Courtesy of PLANEMAD/Wikipedia
2. © National Gallery of Australia
Hugo Grotius, Mare Liberum (Freedom of the Seas) 1609
1. Courtesy of Trevor Murphy and Greg Klein, Oregon State University
Inter Caetera of 1493
Courtesy of Corridoio Vasariano Museum, Florence, Italy
Ivory
© The Trustees of the British Museum
Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Governor General, VOC
1. Courtesy of De VOC Site
2. Batavia, circa 1600, by John Ogilvy. Image courtesy of Brian Hooker, “In the name of the son”, Mercator’s
World, July/August, 1998, 3(4)
Kilwa
1. Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum, 1572
2. Courtesy of Torrence Royer
Kunyu Quantu and Kangnido Chinese Maps
1. Country Names added by PHG
2. ©The British Library Board, London
Letter from Jahangir to James I of England
1. Courtesy of Frances Pritchett, Columbia University
2. © Smithsonian Institute, Freer Sackler Gallery of Art
Macau, China
1. Public domain
2. Courtesy of the Red Hat of Pat Ferrick
Maize
Carl L. Johannessen and Anne Z. Parker, "Maize Ears Sculptured in 12th and 13th Century A.D. India as Indicators of
Pre-Columbian Diffusion," Economic Botany 43, 1989, 164-80
Malay Account of Portuguese in Malacca
Courtesy National Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon, Portugal
The Manila Galleon
© The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Mappilas
1. Courtesy of IndiaVideo.org
2. Courtesy of Kadavu Resort, Kerala, India
Masulipatnum
1. Courtesy of Anindita Sengupta
2. © The Orvis Co., Inc.
Mokha
1-2. Courtesy of International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)
3. Courtesy of Pacific Ocean Marine Services, Yemen
The Mughal Empire and the Red Fort at Aghra
1. © The British Library Board
2. Public domain
Mughal Turkey Painting
1. © Bridgeman Art Library, London
Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
1. Courtesy of Frederick A. Stokes Company
2. From Livro das Plantas das Fortalezas, Cidades e Povoaçoes do Estado da India Oriental. 1600s. Courtesy of
Marco Ramerini
3. Courtey of Carston Behme
Opium
1. Courtesy of the British Journal of Pharmacology
2. Public domain
The Ottoman Empire
1. Courtesy of Maziar Behrooz, San Franciso State University, CA
2. Courtesy of Ian Lloyd
The Ottoman Navy
1. Flagship of Kemal Reis, Public domain
2. Courtesy of Yehya Kemal Beyath
Painting of the Battle of Plassey, 1754
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Pepper
1-2. Courtesy of the J. Richard Steffy Ship Reconstruction Laboratory, Texas A&M
Persian Carpets
1. Courtesy of Berndt Fernow
2. © The National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, London
3. © Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Piggybank from Java, Indonesian
1. Courtesy Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
2. Courtesy Asian Art Resource, London, U.K.
3. © PiggyBankPage at http://www.piggybankpage.co.uk
Pineapple
From Oviedo, La historia general de las Indias, 1535, courtesy of the Library of Congress, Washington, DC
Pondicherry
Department of Tourism, Pondicherry, India
Portrait of EIC Official by Dip Chand, ca. 1760
© Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
The Roaring Forties
1. © National Maritime Museum, London
2. © Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut(KNMI), the Netherlands
Royal Decree from Shah Abbas to the English
1. © Bayani, Khanbaba. "Gushah'i az tarikh-i diplumasi-yi Iran." Barrasi-ha-yi tarikhi 1, 5-6 (1345/1967): 33-60.
Courtesy of Philipps University, Marburg,
2. Courtesy of Marco Ramerini
The Safavid Empire
1. © Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
2. © The Trustees of the British Museum
The Sextant
© National Maritime Museum, London
Silver
© The Trustees of the British Museum
The Spice Trade: Nutmeg and Mace
© Shipwreck and Coastal Heritage Centre, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Straits of Malacca
Courtesy of Cambridge University, UK
Surat, Gujarat
1. © The British Library Board
2. Courtesy of Frances Pritchett, Columbia University
3. Courtesy of the Gemological Institute of America
Tea Chest
1. Courtesy of Joseph O’Kelly and Antigone Clarke, Antique Boxes
2. © Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Museum, Washington, DC
Trade Winds and Horse Latitudes
1. Courtesy of Matt T. Rosenberg
2 and 3. © NASA, Washington, DC
The Treaty of Tordesillas
Courtesy of UNESCO World Heritage Centre
United Dutch East India Company, VOC
1. Courtesy of Paulus Swaen
2. © The Trustees of the British Museum
3. © JAN Fine Arts, London
Vanilla
1. © David Rumsey
2. © Friend and Burrell
Vasco da Gama
1. Courtesy of World Book, Inc.
2. © National Maritime Museum, London
Whaling
© Old Dartmouth Historical Society / New Bedford Whaling Museum, MA
The Wind Rose
1-2. Courtesy of the University of Southern Maine, Portland ME
World Maps, 1459-1724
1-2. Image courtesy of Henry Davis Consulting, Ash Fork, AZ
2. Originally from Oud en Nieuw Oost-Indien (Dordrecht/Amsterdam) 1724/26. Courtesy of Paulus Swaen