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Early Modern Period
- the Age of Interaction
-the First Global Age
1450-1750
…the point in history where the balance
of power begins to shift.
PoV Practice
Guess Who?
 Created an absolute
monarchy in France
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Considered the epitome of
absolute monarchy
 Nicknamed the Sun King
 Built a lavish palace at
Versailles
 Practiced mercantilism
 Made France one of
Europe’s wealthiest
nations
Guess Who?
 Founded a shogunate
bearing his name in 1603
 1st person to unify Japan
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Created a feudal monarchy
in Japan
 Began period of Japanese
isolation
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Banned Christianity &
expelled Christian
missionaries
Limited trade to the port of
Nagasaki
Guess Who?
 Expanded the Mughal
Empire
 Promoted religious
tolerance between
Muslims and Hindus
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Eliminated the jizya on
Muslims
Tolerated Jesuit
missionaries
 Attempted social reforms
to benefit women
 Supported the arts
What is the date?
 Zheng He’s voyages
What is the date?
 British East India Company takes the place of a
collapsing Mughal Empire
What is the event?
 1600 CE
Analyze changes & continuities in
ways 1 of the following participated in
trade b/t 1500 & 1750.
LATIN AMERICA ~or
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA ~or
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Spotlight: Latin Amer –
the exception /
defined by Europe
1000 BCE – 600 CE
 No empires, instead
starter “RVCivs”
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No wheel
 Olmec
 Maya
 City-states,
astronomy, pyramids
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1450 – 1750
Europeans not restricted
to coastline
Columbian exchange
Encomienda, mita, slaves
Sugar & silver
Syncretism: Catholicism
& Mestizos
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600 CE – 1450
No universalizing religion;
little interaction
Aztec & Inca
Corn v. Potato
Women
Tribute/Trade vs. Socialism
Sacrifices
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1750 – 1914
Getting independence
rather than colonized
France & Haiti
Creoles lead w/o
social reform
Neo-Colonialism
1914 – pres
 Great
Depression
 Cold War
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Cuba
Military ->
Democracy
Early Modern Period
- the Age of Interaction
-the First Global Age
1450-1750
…the point in history where the balance
of power begins to shift.
Global Interaction - Contents
Columbian Exchange
 Indian Ocean
 Gunpowder Empires
 Timeline
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Columbian Exchange
Compare the demographic & environmental effects of the
Columbian Exchange on the Americas
with one of the following between 1492 & 1750:
Africa,
Asia,
Europe
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European social movements led to:
◦ Revolutions in thought and culture
◦ Exploration
◦ Commercial Revolution
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Cartography
Compass
Astrolabe
Lateen sails
New ship
designs
Analyze the impact of technology
on this period.
Key Issue
Treaty of Tordesillas
Aztec
Inca
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Spread of
epidemic
disease
◦ Smallpox,
measles, flu
Population
decreases
dramatically in
Americas,
leading to the
decline of
civilizations in
Mesoamerica
and the Andes.
 New racial
hierarchies
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The New World Economy/Trade
Locations and
Characteristics
Forced Labor's
Impact on
Demographic
Changes
Middle East
mostly women
(allows for large
extended
families)
Valued for
kinship status
Plantation slaves
(Atlantic
System)
Caribbean
North America
South America
15 to 25 million
slaves
(mostly men)
transported to
the Americas
middle passage
silver mining
plantations
Harsh chattel
slavery w/ no
mobility ->
maroons/work
stoppages
Janissaries
Ottoman Empire
Islamization of
Balkans
military service
Mobility
Serfs
Eastern Europe
Russia
High % of
population as
farmers
becomes "virtual
slavery"
Limited mobility
Slave Systems:
Coercive or
Forced Labor
Domestic slaves
(Trans-Sahara &
East Africa)
Treatment of
Slaves
Rise of Coercive Labor
Status of
Slaves
Mercantilism
Manufactured goods
Mother
Country
Colony
Raw
materials
Cheap labor
Global Interaction - Contents
Columbian Exchange
 Indian Ocean
 Gunpowder Empires
 Timeline
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Indian Ocean
Analyze the changes and continuities in Indian Ocean
commerce between 650 and 1750.
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Dominated postclassical period
◦ But position challenged in 1450-1750
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Lingering vibrancy makes these areas less
affected by European expansion
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Seeds of 19th century subordinance laid
Middle East, India, China
European Arrival in Asia
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Asian Sea Trading Network
Arab Zone
•Glass
•Rugs & tapestries
•Slaves
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Indian Zone
•Cotton
•Gems
•Pepper
Chinese Zone
•Paper & porcelain
•Silk & spice
What did European bring & how did Asian
societies react?
Portuguese, Dutch, English
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Learned quickly that their goods were not wanted
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Effective use of force with the goal to dominate
trade networks (technology outweighs small size)
◦ Yet, restricted to coast; need permission to trade inland
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Establish forts for protection
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Christian missionaries
◦ Catholic goals vs. Protestant goals
◦ Presence of Islam/Hinduism swiftly ends the dream
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Jesuits make some inroads
◦ “Trickle-down conversion”: Believed in adopting
modes of the native upper classes in order to convert
them. Others would then follow
Spreading the Faith
Global Interaction - Contents
Columbian Exchange
 Indian Ocean
 Gunpowder Empires
 Timeline
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Gunpowder Empires
Land based Empires:
Compare responses to West
 Tokugawa
Japan
Don’t forget the outliers…
Global Interaction - Contents
Columbian Exchange
 Indian Ocean
 Gunpowder Empires
 Timeline
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Timeline of
Early Modern Period
Renaissance
Reformation
Science
Enlightenment
Renaissance
Portugal
Printing Press
Ivans
Reformation
Spain
Mughals
Conquistadores/Colonization
Science
Atlantic Slave Trade
Louis XIV
Peter the Great
Dutch in S. Af
Enlightenment Atlantic Slave Trade peaks
Catherine the Great
Zheng He
Ottomans
Tokugawa
Qing
BEIC
Guess Who?
 English mathematician and
physicist
 Revolutionary ideas
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Laws of the heavens are true
on Earth
Universal gravity
 Three laws of motion
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Made significant discoveries
in optics & calculus
 Influenced deism
Guess Who?
 Proposed reforms for the
Catholic Church in his
Ninety-five Theses
 Revolutionary ideas
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Believed faith alone would
get people into heaven
The Bible was the final source
for Christian teachings
 Printing press spread his
ideas across Northern
Europe
Global Interaction - Contents
Columbian Exchange
 Indian Ocean
 Gunpowder Empires
 Timeline
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