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The World Economy

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106972391changes and continuities 1450-1750changes: new global economy; biological exchange; new empires continuities: gender roles; not too many technological innovations0
106972392incentives for Europeans to exploreneed gold/something valuable want to bypass Middle E & Muslims to trade w/ Asia excited about discovering new things1
106972393new technologies allowing Europeans to explore furtherdeep-draft, round-hulled sailing ships improved compass improved mapmaking knowledge of explosives which led to gunnery2
106972394early Spanish expeditionsColumbus-Americas 1492 Ferdinand Magellan-reached Indonesia, claimed Phillipines 1521 some Pacific islands3
106972395Dutch East India Co. and British East India Co.companies set up in regions, semiprivate, like a govt.; could raise army and coin money and make profits promoted world trade4
106972396degree Europeans dominated intl tradeEurope dominated intl trade quite a bit but Asian and Middle East shipping still important5
106972397mercantilismnation-state only imported from own empire but sells as much as they can to everybody had tariffs to discourage manufacturing in colonies6
106972398core-dependent systemcore nations (Eng., Fr., Sp.,Por., etc.) provide business for some in dependent nations (Americas, etc.)7
106972399roles China and Japan played in the world economy during the early modern periodstill traded with others, but not very much world economy not extremely important to them, but Europe wanted their goods, esp. China's8
106972400reasons for South Africa to be an exception to typical European involvement in Africaboers (Dutch word for farmers) went inland, for large pieces of land and settled in the rest of Africa, mostly limited to small coastal fortresses b/c of climate, disease, & unnavigatable rivers9
106972401economic and diplomatic impacts that colonization had on W Europerelationships b/w countries worsened sugar became much more common and cheaper more profits from slave trade reduced dependence on agriculture alone bigger commercial sector more tax revenues for growing govt. and military10
106972402pros of the development of the world economymore profits for Europe new foods and wider trade patterns helped some societies deal w/ scarcity individual merchants and landowners gain new wealth China prospers from silver more mixture and interactions b/w people11
106972403cons of the development of the world economymore unfree labor system more slavery and serfdom esp. in Latin America & E Europe slave trade disrupted W Africa many indigenous people in Americas killed/died lots of conflicts b/w colonies and colonizers and b/w European countries12

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