Early+Modern+Period



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 * 1) **The World Map Changes**
 * Smaller political units give way to new empires
 * Beginnings of Western European empires that span overseas
 * New land-based Asian and Eastern European empires
 * e.g. Ottomans, Russians, Munghals
 * Rise of transcontinental trade routes on the Atlantic and Pacific
 * Connection of the Americas and Pacific Oceania to the global stage
 * 1) **Triggers For Change**
 * Revival of Empire Building
 * e.g. the Ottomans
 * European colonialism of the west African coast
 * European desire to circumvent the Islamic entrepot to the Far East
 * Introduction new tech. to Western Europeans
 * Compass
 * Better ship designs
 * Gunpowder
 * Cannons
 * 1) **The Big Changes**
 * 2) Global economy encompassing all major civilizations and empires
 * 3) Colombian Exchange
 * 4) Population increase
 * 5) Empires consolidated or expanded overseas
 * 6) Change in world leader: Rise of Western Europe and Russia
 * 1) **Continuity**
 * Trade routes like the Silk Road still maintained vigor and importance
 * No overhaul of any global culture
 * Rise of new thinking
 * Renaissance
 * Japanese Confucianism
 * World religions continue their spread
 * African gender relations was altered by slave trade
 * Rise of polygamy
 * Gender roles (patriarchal) pretty much remained intact
 * No major development of weaponry or industrialization
 * China retains Son of Han arrogance
 * 1) **Impact on Daily Life: Work**
 * Colombian exchange exterminates a majority of the American populations
 * New trade between Europe and China involving silver changes currency from paper to specie impoverishing the masses
 * Abduction and enslavement within Africa
 * Population increase compels people to work harder and longer
 * Child labor increased
 * 1) **Trends and Societies in the Early Modern Period**
 * Chapter 16: Changes in the global economic patterns
 * Chapter 17: European Colonialism
 * Chapter 18: Rise of Russia
 * Chapter 19 & 20 : The Americas
 * Chapter 21: Gunpowder empires, South Asia, and Middle East
 * Shifts in world power and exchange


 * 1) The World Economy
 * 2) Rise of the West
 * 3) Rise of Russia
 * 4) Latin America
 * 5) Africa
 * 6) Muslim Empires
 * 7) Asian Transitions

Notes:


 * Region || Major Events || Major Developments || Major Continuities ||
 * Western Europe || * Scientific Revolution
 * Renaissance
 * Reformation
 * Counter Reformation
 * Enlightenment
 * Defeat of the Spanish Armada 1588
 * Netherlands freed from Spanish control
 * Adoption of the Potato
 * Battle of Lepanto
 * Commercial Revolution
 * Glorious Revolution
 * Edict of Nantes
 * Thirty Years War and Treaty of Westphalia
 * English Civil War
 * War of Spanish Succession (1702-1703)
 * Treaty of Utrecht (1713) || * Gunpowder and firearms
 * Colonization and triangular trade
 * Mercantilism and quasi-capitalism
 * European-styled family
 * Proletariat class
 * Absolute and Parliamentary monarchy
 * Enlightened despotism
 * Humanism/Secularism
 * Galileo's round world theory
 * Protestantism
 * Weakened papal authority
 * Printing press and flying shuttle (for weaving)
 * Superiority complex and disdain towards colonized peoples
 * Professionalized armies || * Subsistence farming
 * Nation-state
 * Manorialism
 * Naval dominance
 * Colonizations


 * During the period, Western Europe underwent great social, economic, and religious changes that established it as the world's foremost power.** ||
 * Central/South Americas || * Columbus' Voyage in 1492
 * Columbian Exchange
 * Treaty of Tordesillas
 * Recopilación
 * Pedro Alvares Cabral finds Brazil in 1500
 * Comunero Revolt || * Ranches and sugar plantations
 * Caste society (Sociedad de Castas)
 * Gold and silver mining
 * Hacienda system
 * Encomienda System
 * Triangular Trade
 * Dependence of slave labor
 * Viceroyalties
 * Heavy missionary activities by Dominicans and Franciscans
 * Capitaincy system in Brazil
 * Subordination of Portugal to England
 * Organizations like the Amigos de País
 * Pombal reforms in Brazil
 * Distinguish between Creole and saltwater slaves
 * Various fusion religions
 * Slave societies || * Mita system
 * Subsistence farming
 * Subordination to the core nations
 * Plantations
 * Sociedad de Castas
 * Powerful Creoles
 * Due to silver and gold veins present in the Americas, the area became the target of massive colonization efforts. Due to the interchange of cultures, a dynamicism was created that forged a new society within the Americas.** ||
 * North America || * French claims the Hudson Bay area in 1534
 * Mayflower compact || * Religious colonies along the northeastern coast
 * Plantation colonies along the southeastern coast
 * Triangular Trade || **Rely on APUSH** ||
 * Russia || * Time of Troubles
 * Succession of Romanovs
 * Partitions of Poland
 * Pugachev Rebellion || * Ivan the Great/Ivan III frees Russia from Tatar control after 1462
 * Tsarism
 * Cossacks
 * Succession of Romanovs
 * Westernization under Peter and Catherine the Great
 * Serfdom || * Subsistence farming
 * Weak economy
 * Powerful boyar aristocracy
 * Despotism
 * Under the reigns of the Ivans and Romanovs, Russian society was revitalized and regained a position in world affairs.** ||
 * Middle East || * Battle of Lepanto
 * Founding of Ottoman and Safavid
 * Capture of Constantinople in 1453
 * Chaldiran || * Warrior aristocracy
 * Seclusion of princes
 * Slave, Praetorian guard-like regiments
 * Increase of Persian Influence || * Firearms
 * Religious feud
 * Bureaucracies
 * The Middle East saw the foudnations of two rival religious empires centered around firearms.** ||
 * India || * De Gama's Arrival in 1498
 * Construction of the Taj Mahal
 * Founding on Mughal
 * Defeat of joint fleet at Diu in 1509
 * Capture of Ormuz and Goa || * Beginnings of colonization under the Dutch then British East Indies Co. || * Caste Society
 * Hinduism and Islam
 * Subordination of women
 * Rajput aristocracy ||
 * China || * Zhu Yuanzhang becomes the Hongwu emperor in 1368
 * Adoption of root crops
 * Commercial boom and population increase || * Rise of Christianity
 * Revival of the Confucian scholar-gentry and examinations
 * Hongwu's reforms against court corruption and peasant plight
 * Widening gap between wealth and poverty
 * Manorial like system
 * Variances in the lives of women
 * Prosperous merchant class
 * Laws requiring payment in silver
 * Deregulation of economy || * neo-Confucian ||
 * Japan || * a || * Rise of Christianity ||  ||
 * Africa || * Portuguese establishes El Mina in 1482
 * Royal African Co. (British) was chartered in 1660
 * Rise of Usuman Dan Fodio (1804)
 * Great Trek
 * Rise of the Mfecane with the rise of Shaka Zulu in 1818 || * Factories
 * Slave trade
 * Large kingdoms like Asante and Dahomey
 * Indies Piece system
 * Triangular Trade
 * Centralization
 * Ideas of anti-authoritarianism and self-sufficiency
 * Violent Islaminization
 * Division of Southern Africa between the non-Bantu and Bantu speaking tribes
 * Boer states || * Swahili coast continued Indian Ocean Trade
 * Interior trade continued trading ivory, gold and slaves
 * Muslim and Christian States ||