You may only use class materials for this assignment, which includes the lecture

You may only use class materials for this assignment, which includes the lecture video, the primary source documents, and the Earth and Its Peoples (optional).
Once you’ve chosen your item from 1.5.a Unit 1 Images, Quotes, and Terms, write one to two paragraphs on the significance of your item. You may want to:
Explain how your item is a cause or a consequence of some event.
Explain how your item exemplified some trend or movement or ideology.
Explain how your item ties into one of our class themes.
Explain any other way this item is significant.
Here’s a reminder of our class themes:
The uniqueness of various cultures and the impact of cross-cultural exchange.
The role of technology in shaping world history since 1500.
The roles of competition and cooperation between nations.
The roles of racism and nationalism in shaping world history since 1500.Requirements:
1-2 paragraphs
Use of complete sentences and paragraphs. Do not use bullet points (like I’ve just done a here).
A clearly identified item.
A thorough explanation of the significance of your item
An explanation which is factually correct.
An explanation which puts your item in historical context.
A date connected with your item. It can be a year, a decade, or a portion of a century (e.g. Early 1500s, Mid 1500s, Late 1500s).
Veronica Bale–I’m the only one doing this one this week.
Faith Bulone
Salia Aguilar Lenard Yousif
Hailey Ashton
Jessica Quainton
Renzo Tayag
Olivia Reams
” The second reason was that if there chanced to be in those lands some population of Christians, or some havens, into which it would be possible to sail without peril, many kinds of merchandise might be brought to this realm, which would find a ready market, and reasonably so, because no other people of these parts traded with them, nor yet people of any other that were known; and also the products of this realm might be taken there, which traffic would bring great profit to our countrymen.” (Azurara) ” The third reason was that, as it was said that the power of the Moors (Arab Muslims) in that land of Africa was very much greater than was commonly supposed, and that there were no Christians among them, nor any other race of men; and because every wise man is obliged by natural prudence to wish for a knowledge of the power of his enemy; therefore the said Lord Infant exerted himself to cause this to be fully discovered, and to make it known determinately how far the power of those infidels extended.” (Azurara)Media Mansoor .” The fourth reason was because during the one and thirty years that he had warred against the Moors, he had never found a Christian king, nor a lord outside this land, who for the love of our Lord Jesus Christ would aid him in the said war. Therefore he sought to know if there were in those parts any Christian princes, in whom the charity and the love of Christ was so ingrained that they would aid him against those enemies of the faith.” (Azurara) ” And not only did I see the first captives (African slaves), but their children and grandchildren as true Christians as if the Divine grace breathed in them and imparted to them a clear knowledge of itself.” (Azurara) “On arriving in the outlying countries, those among the foreign kings who were obstructing the “transforming influence” (of Chinese culture) and were disrespectful were captured alive, and brigands who gave themselves over to violence and plunder were exterminated.” (Zheng He) “In the fifth year of Yongle (1407) commanding the fleet we went to Java [Indonesia], Calicut [India], Cochin [India], and Siam [Thailand]. The kings of these countries all presented as tribute local products, and precious birds and rare animals. We returned in the seventh year (1409).” (Zheng He) “In the nineteenth years of Yongle (1421) commanding the fleet we conducted the ambassadors from Hormuz [Iran] and the other countries, who had been in attendance at the capital for a long time, back to their counties. The kings of all these countries presented local products as tributes even more abundantly than previously.” (Zheng He) Chinggis Kahn (Temujin) Emperor Hongwu Emperor Yongle Treasure Fleets Maya Moniz The Siege of Mohacs Babur the Tiger Swahili Coast Tenochtitlan Black Plague Hundred Years War Vasco Da Gama Christopher Columbus Tainos Hernan Cortes Xochitl Jaramillo Jesse Martinez