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Title: Improving nation and sovereign power by exploiting westward sea route to India Got peppers


1
Improving nation and sovereign power by
exploiting westward sea route to India(Got
peppers?)
  • April 14, 1485
  • Christopher Columbus
  • (Kyung-Lang Park)

2
Contents
  • Introduction (problem and solution)
  • Background
  • Voyage plan
  • Requirement (budget)
  • Conclusion

3
Problems
  • Weakening of nation and sovereign power caused
  • by the stagnation of national finance

High increase of the party decrease of trade
profits
The king needs huge money!!
4
Solution
  • Trading peppers with India directly by the
    westward Atlantic line.

5
Background
  • Difficulties of conventional cases
  • Land route
  • Osman Turk restrict passing their land
  • Land route is preoccupied by Arabian merchants
  • Coast of Africa
  • Too long to sail more than 10,000 miles
  • Exposed to the danger from pirates

6
Background
Japan
Indies
  • Alternatives Atlantic line

7
Background
  • Possibility
  • Theory of The earth is round
  • Image of the world by dAilly
  • Area of sea is only 1/7 of earth surface
  • Toscannelis letter and map
  • We can deduct that the westward distance from
    Spain to India is about 5,000 miles

8
Voyage Plan
9
Requirement
  • We need 3 trading vessel
  • One carrack and two caravels
  • 90 seamen are required
  • 40 for a carrack
  • 25 for each caravel
  • Need some specialists
  • Interpreter, carpenter, physician, surgery and so
    on

10
Budget
11
Conclusion
  • Sovereign power is strongly related to economic
    strength
  • We can upgrade our economic strength by trading
    peppers directly with India through Atlantic line
  • Other routes have some restrictions
  • Expected profit 30,000 2,000 60,000,000!!!
  • High profit compared with your investment
  • Only 10 to me
  • Not only money but also reputation and majesty

12
  • Thank you

13
Personal background
  • Chistoper columbus
  • Good at both celestial navigation and instruments
  • Several rough voyage experience
  • Agean Island in 1475
  • Survived a shipwreck off Cape St. Vince
  • Iceland and Ireland in 1477
  • Madeira in 1478
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