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Diverse Interpretations

1450-1750
Early Modern Period

  1. Diverse Interpretations
    1. Debates about the timing and extent of European predominance in the world economy
      1. European desire for world dominance
      2. Technological superiority
      3. Why some European city-states and not others?
      4. “great man theory” – visionary thinking of a few extraordinary people
        1. Prince Henry the Navigator and Sir Isaac Newton
        2. Or…did these people influence very few others
      5. Culture – life on earth had value of its own – life was getting better – no longer just think of afterlife
      6. Political theory – European monarchs needed money from new colonies/new trade networks
        1. Finance wars and add to their power
    2. Comparison of world economic system of this period to world economic network of previous period
      1. Changed how?
      2. Impact of trade on world’s civilizations
      3. Role of economic considerations in influencing other world interactions
  2. Comparing Imperial System – European monarchy vs. land-based Asian Empire
    1. Methods of government
      1. Most common government
        1. single ruler with absolute and/or divine power
        2. nobility as counselors
        3. civil service
      2. Asian Empires
        1. Japan
          1. European feudalism was decentralized
            1. feudal aristocracy owed allegiance to monarch but ruled own territories
            2. later monarch would need to reign in powerful nobles to build single nation
          2. Japan feudalism became centralized
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US History
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