Early Modern Period - the Age of Interaction, -the First Global Age) …the point in history where the balance of power begins to shift.
Periodization…mostly in line
Questions to Consider Analyze the changes and continuities in Western Europe. Compare the paths of non-Western societies in Asia, Africa & the Americas. Characterize the world economy during this period. Analyze the impact of technology on this period.
Themes to Consider (most themes tied heavily into the theme of interaction) Political organization—Empire Building Cultural & Intellectual Movements Interaction & its Consequences ◦Trade ◦Demographic Shifts Technology Gender Roles
Analyze the changes and continuities in Western Europe.
Key Empires emerge at this time as a result of: ◦Revolutions in thought and culture ◦Exploration ◦Commercial Revolution
Case Studies: Catholic vs. Protestant Nations, Absolute vs. Limited Monarchies Similarities? Differences?
Changes and Continuities? Changes Growth of cities Middle class Marriage and family structure Questioning spirit Women’s roles religion Continuities?
Land based Empires: Compare responses to West
Don’t forget the outliers… Tokugawa Japan Aztec/Inca
Cultural and Intellectual Movements Cultural and intellectual developments, Dates Famous People or Events Content of Idea or Movement Diffusion (Where did the ideas spread?) Scientific RevolutionCopernicus Galileo Francis Bacon William Harvey World could be explained through natural laws rather than superstition Sun was the center of the universe Scientific Method Questions traditional church teachings Europe/American colonies EnlightenmentJohn Locke Jean-Jacques Rousseau Thomas Hobbes Voltaire Natural Rights – life, liberty and property Right of people to revolt and overthrow government Freedom of speech, press, and religion Europe/American colonies NeoconfucianismZhu Xicombine elements of Buddhism and Daoism to make Confucianism more accessible for less literate Chinese China, Korea, Japan Exchanges in artsItalian Renaissance paintings Mughal minature paintings Taj Mahal celebration of beauty focus on individual achievement Europe and its colonies, South Asia
Characterize the world economy during this period.
The New World Economy/Trade
Demographics: coercive labor Slave Systems: Coercive or Forced Labor Locations and Characteristics Forced Labor's Impact on Demographic Changes Treatment of Slaves Status of Slaves slave trade (Trans Saharan and East Africa) East Africamostly womanpart of kinship plantation slavery (Atlantic Slave System) Carribean North America South America 15 to 25 million slaves transported to the Americas middle passage silver mining plantations maroons/work stoppages not much social mobility Mamluks/Janissaries Abbasid(Mamluks) Ottoman Empire military servicemobility serfs Eastern Europe Russia becomes "virtual slavery" some mobility
More Demography Spread of epidemic disease ◦Smallpox, measles, flu, STD’s Population decreases dramatically in Americas, leading to the decline of civilizations in Mesoamerica and the Andes. New racial hierarchies
Human Interactions w/Environment Degradation of New World The Little Ice Age
Analyze the impact of technology on this period. Cartography Compass Astrolabe Lateen sails New ship designs
Compare the role of women in two premodern societies.
Women Little change from previous period ◦Powerful Exceptions: Elizabeth I, Queen Isabella, Nur Jahan ◦Still shared power (except Elizabeth) Impact of Interaction on Women ◦Racial miscegenation in Americas ◦Changes in trade/production Europe: nominal impact of Renaissance/Reformation Outside of Europe: ◦Africa matrilineal but impacted by slave trade ◦Neoconfucianism in China