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Global Interactions – 1450-1750

Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange. Global Interactions – 1450-1750. Main Idea : connecting the Eastern and Western hemispheres changed everything! Global networks shake up the old trade routes Technology is key Everybody’s in the game Europe becomes the major player

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Global Interactions – 1450-1750

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  1. Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange Global Interactions – 1450-1750

  2. Main Idea: connecting the Eastern and Western hemispheres changed everything! • Global networks shake up the old trade routes • Technology is key • Everybody’s in the game • Europe becomes the major player • The Columbian Exchange • Religions spread and change • Reflections in art The big picture

  3. From the “new world” would come new products They were traded on the old trade routes, too Some benefit, some lose out 1- Global networks shake up the old trade routes

  4. Europeans suddenly can go ANYWHERE. How? • Collecting and expanding knowledge of Classical Europe, Islamic Empires, Asia • New Technology: tools (astrolabe), ship designs (caravels) • Better understanding of the environment: global wind and ocean currents 2- Technology is key

  5. China: Admiral Zheng He leads massive fleets to SE Asia, Africa… and beyond? Portugal: starts a school of navigation, travel and trade to West Africa, begins empire. Spain: sponsors Columbus and others to cross Atlantic and Pacific Northern Europe looks for NW Passage Polynesians connect the dots in South Pacific 3- Everybody’s in the game

  6. In Asia, they take over Indian Ocean shipping • Silver from N&S America becomes the global currency • Mercantilism: the Joint-Stock Company • Control domestic and colonial economies • Countries use them to compete • The Atlantic System: moving resources, products, and people, connecting East & West 4- Europe becomes the major player

  7. European colonization of the Americas. Effects: • Spread of Europe diseases: small pox, measles, flu • American foods to Old World: potato, corn, tomato • Cash Crop Colonies: sugar in Brazil, Caribbean; tobacco in North America. • Europeans bring grains and domestic animals (horse, cow, pig) to Americas. • African slaves bring important foods (rice, okra). • Old world population boom from new world foods • Environmental problems in the new world 5- The Columbian Exchange

  8. Islam continues to spread in Africa & Asia • Adapted to local cultures • Sunni – Shia split intensifies • Christianity spread to New World • Diversified by diffusion and reformation • Syncretic and new forms of religion developed • Voodoo in Caribbean • Cult of the Saints in Latin America 6- Religions spread and change

  9. Merchants made profits, governments collected taxes, money for the arts increased • Literacy expanded, popular authors • Shakespeare, Cervantes 7-Reflections in art

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