Unit 3
Subject:
World History [1]
Tags:
Americas [2]
Humanities [3]
Colonialism [4]
Racism [5]
Slave Trade [8]
slavery [10]
British Empire [11]
spanish empire [12]
West Africa [13]
1450-1750 Early Modern Period Major Developments I. Questions of Periodization A. Major points 1. Shift in power to the West a. Rise of the West with fall of China and India creates imbalance in power that favors Europeans for next 200 years 2. World becomes smaller ? almost all civilizations touched by trade 3. New Empires ? Spain, Portugal, England, France, Netherlands, Ottoman, Russian, Mughal, Ming 4. Age of Gunpowder B. Changes at end of Postclassical Era 1. Independent societies (Aztecs, Incas) falling apart 2. Arab power declining 3. New invasions ? Mongols 4. Ottoman Empire gains power a. Europeans threatened by new force to East 5. Chinese flirt with trade, but Ming bureaucrats pull back 6. Europe enters age of exploration