Early Modern Period - the Age of Interaction, -the First Global Age) 1450-1750
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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.
Periodization…mostly in line
Questions to Consider
Analyze the changes and continuities in Western Europe.
Compare the paths of non-Western societies in Asia, Africa & the Americas.
Characterize the world economy during this period.
Analyze the impact of technology on this period.
Themes to Consider (most themes tied heavily into the theme of interaction)
Political organization—Empire BuildingCultural & Intellectual MovementsInteraction & its Consequences
◦Trade◦Demographic Shifts
TechnologyGender Roles
Analyze the changes and continuities in Western
Europe.
Key Empires emerge at this time as a result of:◦Revolutions in thought and culture◦Exploration◦Commercial Revolution
Case Studies: Catholic vs. Protestant Nations, Absolute vs. Limited Monarchies
Similarities? Differences?
Changes and Continuities?
ChangesGrowth of citiesMiddle classMarriage and
family structure Questioning spiritWomen’s rolesreligion
Continuities?
Land based Empires: Compare responses to West
Don’t forget the outliers…
Tokugawa Japan Aztec/Inca
Cultural and Intellectual Movements
Cultural and intellectual developments, Dates
Famous People or Events
Content of Idea or Movement
Diffusion (Where did the ideas spread?)
Scientific Revolution Copernicus Galileo Francis Bacon William Harvey
World could be explained through natural laws rather than superstition Sun was the center of the universe Scientific Method Questions traditional church teachings
Europe/American colonies
Enlightenment John Locke Jean-Jacques Rousseau Thomas Hobbes Voltaire
Natural Rights – life, liberty and property Right of people to revolt and overthrow government Freedom of speech, press, and religion
Europe/American colonies
Neoconfucianism Zhu Xi combine elements of Buddhism and Daoism to make Confucianism more accessible for less literate Chinese
China, Korea, Japan
Exchanges in arts Italian Renaissance paintings Mughal minature paintings Taj Mahal
celebration of beauty focus on individual achievement
Europe and its colonies, South Asia
Characterize the world economy during this period.
The New World Economy/Trade
Demographics: coercive labor
Slave Systems: Coercive or
Forced Labor Locations and Characteristics
Forced Labor's Impact on
Demographic Changes
Treatment of Slaves
Status of Slaves
slave trade (Trans Saharan and East
Africa) East Africa mostly woman part of kinship
plantation slavery (Atlantic Slave
System)
Carribean North America South
America
15 to 25 million slaves transported to the Americas middle passage
silver mining plantations
maroons/work stoppages not much
social mobility
Mamluks/Janissaries Abbasid(Mamluks)Ottoman Empire military service mobility
serfs Eastern Europe Russia
becomes "virtual slavery" some mobility
More Demography
Spread of epidemic disease◦ Smallpox,
measles, flu, STD’s
Population decreases dramatically in Americas, leading to the decline of civilizations in Mesoamerica and the Andes.
New racial hierarchies
Human Interactions w/Environment
Degradation of New WorldThe Little Ice Age
Analyze the impact of technology on this period.
CartographyCompassAstrolabeLateen sailsNew ship
designs
Compare the role of women in two premodern societies.
Women
Little change from previous period◦Powerful Exceptions: Elizabeth I, Queen Isabella, Nur Jahan◦Still shared power (except Elizabeth)
Impact of Interaction on Women◦Racial miscegenation in Americas◦Changes in trade/production
Europe: nominal impact of Renaissance/ReformationOutside of Europe:
◦Africa matrilineal but impacted by slave trade◦Neoconfucianism in China