Transcript Time Period IV 1450-1750

Time Period IV
1450-1750
Main Ideas
• 4.1 – Communication and exchange networks finally
become truly global and new systems develop (Columbian
Exchange, silver, Atlantic System, mercantilism, joint-stock
companies)
• 4.2 – New ways to organize society and produce goods are
developed (indentured servitude, chattel slavery &
serfdom, new ethnic categories develop as the world’s
peoples mix)
• 4.3 – States consolidate their power and empires become
bigger and more centralized (art & architecture legitimize
rule, bureaucracy is more developed, religious rituals, tax
farming & tribute-taking, HUGE land-based empires, new
sea-based empires of Europe)
Main Topics Covered
• European & Ming Dynasty Renaissance & Exploration
Periods
• European new contacts with West Africa, IOMS, &
Conquest of American Indian Empires
• European Protestant & Catholic Reformation
• New Colonial Societies in the Americas
• Columbian Exchange (global event)
• Atlantic System (global event & causing European changes,
especially)
• The New World Economy (sugar & slaves, silver to Asia,
Asian production going up of luxury goods)
• Land & Sea-based Empires (Land: Ottoman, Safavid,
Mughal, Tokugawa, Qing, Russia; Sea: Portugal, Spain,
Netherlands, France, Britain)