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How did west European societies view people living in forests: - criminals, robbers, 'crazies', i.e., no one in right mind would live there. Why don't history books include forests when they recount stories of the building of empires and past civilizations? How does the BASF advertisement help you to answer this question? Speculate how challenging it would have been for human to develop and build great civilizations without access to other people's forests? - History recounts stories of people and strategies they took to build empires or why they lost battles. History written by victors, and not losers, so they don't tell stories of how they stole someone's forests. BASF AD (Chemical company): "We don't make a lot of the products you buy, we make a lot of the products you buy better". History written from official reports, files, court documents, financial papers, newspapers old family papers. About 100 years before the rest of the European countries (starting in 1415), Portugal was an active sea faring nation and had formed successful trading partnerships with northern African communities. Why were they so successful? What prevented other European countries from competing with Portugal during this time period? During the CE, why were sailors afraid to go on long sea voyages? - Portuguese started colonizing 100 years before rest of Europe because invented and designed an ocean-travelling ship called the caravel. Made advancements in navigation tools (Portuguese were first to navigate using latitudes). These technologies saved Portuguese sailors from unnecessarily long voyages (5years) shipwrecks, commercial losses, accidental discoveries, and not returning home. Sailors during s were afraid of scary sea monsters attacking ships. They did not know where they were going, could travel back home or fall into abys at edge of earth (since they thought Earth was flat). Where did Portugal get the wood they needed to build ships that allowed them to form trading partnerships with northern African countries? What did Portugal call the island where they cut trees to build ships? After cutting the trees, what did they grow on the treeless lands? What is the link between Portugal and the 13 original American colonies? Why did Great Britain not like the close interactions that developed between Portugal and the American colonies? - Portugal got the wood to build ships from an island called Madeira, or "wood island". They started planting vineyards on the treeless lands. The link between Portugal and the 13 original colonies was that they enthusiastically consumed a quarter of all wine produced on the island every year (no wine quality grapes grew on thirteen colonies). Madeira wine contributed to American revolution: British seized John Hancock's sloop after he unloaded cargo of madeira wine and dispute rose over import duties. Colonists sold Portugal the wood the oak they needed for wine barrels.Between 1200 to 1700 CE, why were trees important for the European countries to colonize and conquer other lands? Since supplies of trees were already scarce at this time, what vicious cycle resulted from this demand for trees? What evidence tells us that the Europeans were very successful colonizers and conquerors of land during this time? - Trees were so important for European countries to colonize and conquer other lands because they were used to build ships. The evidence we have that tells us the Europeans were very successful colonizers and conquerors of land is the amount of forests that they decimated. During Henry VIII's reign [early 1500 CE], what drove the wide