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The Early Modern Period

The Early Modern Period. Part IV 1450-1750. Remember the Periods. 8,000 B.C.E.-600 B.C.E 600 B.C.E.-600 C.E. 600 C.E.-1450 1450-1750 1750-1914 1914-Present (Though in the future, they will, I predict, have a period 1914-2001). 1450: A Turning Point.

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The Early Modern Period

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  1. The Early Modern Period Part IV 1450-1750

  2. Remember the Periods • 8,000 B.C.E.-600 B.C.E • 600 B.C.E.-600 C.E. • 600 C.E.-1450 • 1450-1750 • 1750-1914 • 1914-Present (Though in the future, they will, I predict, have a period 1914-2001)

  3. 1450: A Turning Point • No more Mongols– what happens with trading routes when this happens? • No more Byzantines • Rise of Ming China • Rise of Ottoman Empire • Rise of Safavid Empire • Rise of Mughal Empire • Rise of the West (Portugal and Spain, England, France, Holland)

  4. Why c. 1450? • New Stuff • New Technologies • Gunpowder Empires • Ships and navigation • Printing Press • New Global Economy • Spanish reach the Americas (1492) • Portugal reaches India (1498) • New Biological Exchanges • Smallpox, Measles, etc. • Decline of Aztec and Inca • Still, some continuities… • Regional cultural patterns (e.g. Europe still Christian) • Gender relations (think patriarchy)

  5. The World EconomyRead 355 block– Know the three things!Write them here:Columbian Exchangenew export-import patterns created lasting inferioritiesoverseas empires Stearns, Chapter 16

  6. New Technologies Pave the Way • Western Europe most adept at assimilating others’ technologies and developing innovations. • New naval technologies • Improved cartography • Gunpowder

  7. New Naval Technologies Ships have deeper drafts

  8. New Naval Technologies (cont.) Round Hulls

  9. These Sails are So Tacky.. Er, Tacking

  10. Other Technologies

  11. Iberians: First Out of the Gate

  12. Reconquista

  13. Portuguese Explorations

  14. Span-nerds… I mean Spaniards

  15. Wait a Second… I Thought The Vikings Discovered America… How did that turn out?

  16. And They Did NOT Come Back

  17. But After Columbus?

  18. The Political Map Changes

  19. Even the Dutch?

  20. East India Companies

  21. Columbian Exchange

  22. Controlling Commerce

  23. Lepanto

  24. Shifting Trade Balances

  25. The Mercantilist Dilemma

  26. Mercantilist Solution

  27. Core Nations v. Dependent Areas

  28. International Inequality

  29. China and Japan in the World Economy

  30. Relatively Unaffected Areas • Africa—except for slave trade • Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal—bypassed • Eastern Europe and Russia—agricultural, isolated, serfdom persisted

  31. Expansion

  32. Conquistadores and New Spain

  33. French North America

  34. English Colonies

  35. Ideas Have Consequences

  36. French and Indian War

  37. A Great War for Empire

  38. American Colonists • Religious • Literate • Independent-minded • Influenced by European Enlightenment • More concerned for children than in Europe • Jealous of Dependent Nation status…

  39. African Colony (an exception)

  40. Asian Colonies

  41. Impact on Western Europe

  42. Impact on the Rest of the World

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