1. The Age of Global Interaction 1450-1750

2. The BIG PICTURE Questions How can you explain the timing and extent of European predominance in this period? How does the world economic system compare with patterns in previous periods? How do the coercive labor systems around the world compare?

3. “Nature’s Inequalities” Discuss the following questions with your table partners What is moral geography and is it a valid science? What direct effects does the author lost as most crucial to the development of civilizations?

6. Early Modern or Global Interaction? What label fits the best? Why? Why this periodization?

7. Highlights New power alignments New world economy Inclusion of the Americas Disease patterns change

8. Key Developments Rise of W. Europe International contact intensifies Impact of the Americas TechnologyTrade

9. By region W. Europe—the pioneers E. Europe—huge land empires Asia—Largely independent Africa—slave trade impacts the economy Latin America--colonization

10. By Topic Demography: disease, migration then growth

11. Politics: greater coherence & strength; unevenness

12. Culture: massive change, but not universal

13. Gender: greater disparity

14. Conclusions Some will rise; some will fall The “World Economy” impacts a LOT! New patterns Change vs. tradition

15. The BIG PICTURE Questions How can you explain the timing and extent of European predominance in this period? How does the world economic system compare with patterns in previous periods? How do the coercive labor systems around the world compare?