The Early Modern Era

1. The Early Modern Era 1450 – 1750 BLUE

2. Key Concepts • Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange • New Forms of Social Organization and Modes of Production • State Consolidation and Imperial Expansion

3. Economic impact of the intensification of existing trade networks in the Indian Ocean, Mediterranean, Sahara, and Overland Eurasia. ** What is happening to the Silk Road? **

4. Development in navigational technology and understanding of maritime patterns made expansion of trade possible.

6. Existing trade networks led to new contacts between regions and cultures (China, Portugal, Spain, the Americas, West Africa, North Atlantic)

7. Discuss the Columbian Exchange and its varying implications for Eurasia, the Americas and Africa

8. Development of the new economics of trade, including European monopolies, silver, plantation economics, and early slave trade

9. New interactions led to the spread of world religions and the creation of syncretic belief systems

10. Patronage of the arts as a result of increased profits from trade

11. Changes in labor systems that occurred • Plantation labor – slavery, encomienda, mita • Changes in peasant labor – serfdom and free peasantry • Overall increase in demand for labor as a result of increased demand for goods

12. Changes in social and political hierarchies • formation of new political and economic elites • fluctuation in existing political and economic elites • restructuring of gender and family relationships • new ethnic and racial classifications.

13. Methods by which rulers created legitimacy and consolidated power • Arts • Religion • Ethnicity • Bureaucratic elites • Military professionals • Taxation.

14. Connection of military imperial expansion with the use of gunpowder, canons and armed trade

16. Competition over trade routes, state rivalries and local resistance challenged state consolidation and expansion of trade

17. Responses to the West

18. Industrial Era 1750 – 1900 ORANGE

19. Key Concepts • Industrialization and Global Capitalism • Imperialism and Nation-State Formation • Nationalism, Revolution, and Reform • Global Migration

20. The factors that led to industrialization and why some areas industrialized early, some industrialized later, while others did not industrialize at all

21. Some Key Industrialization Topics • Industrialization impacted the production of goods, including what was available and how goods were produced. • Industrialization impacted patterns of global trade and production, including the impact on the relationship between core and dependent states. • Industrialization impacted the development of new financial institutions. • Industrialization led to creation of transportation and communication. • Variety of responses to the spread of global capitalism. • Industrialization led to changes in social structure (class, gender and family relationships and urbanization). • The relationship between industrialization and imperialism (the industrialization of the core states and the expansion of empire).

22. Imperialism

23. Imperialism influenced state formation and contraction • USA • Russia • Meiji Japan • Germany • Breakup of Ottoman Empire

24. Development of new racial ideologies as justification for imperialism

26. Discuss the spread of Enlightenment ideas and discontent with imperial rule led to the questioning of traditional authority, including rebellion and outright revolution

27. Emergence of nationalism based on a sense of shared language, religion, social customs and territory.

28. The causes and consequences of increasing global migration in both industrialized and unindustrialized societies (including internal migration such as urbanization, as well as large scale external migration

29. The 20th & 21st Centuries 1900 to the Present RED

30. Key Concepts • Science and the Environment • Global Conflicts and Their Consequences • New Conceptualizations of Global Economy and Culture

31. Discuss rapid advances in science spread throughout the world through new technologies. • Discuss the unprecedented growth of the human population had environmental consequences. • Discuss demographic shifts that occurred as a result of disease, scientific innovations, and conflict

32. Discuss how Europeans maintained hegemony in the beginning of the twentieth century, but by the end of the century transoceanic and land-based empires declined in favor of new forms of political organization. It’s a whole new world baby…

33. Discuss global military conflicts involving most nations that occurred

35. Revolutionaries …

36. Global Responses to the Depression

38. Discuss anti-imperialist ideologies contributed to the fall of empires and restructuring of states

41. Global Communism

42. Discuss growing interdependence of states, communities, and individuals led to institutions of global governance

43. Society and culture were thought of in new ways, including ways that challenged how race, class, gender, and religion were seen • Feminism • Civil Rights • Income Inequality • Religious Fundamentalism and Progressivism • Consumerism • Environmentalism