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APWH. 1450-1750. AFRICA 1450-1750 Key Concepts. 1 st significant Euro contact with Africa Motivations for Euro contact: 3 G’s Main interest of Euros in Africa: slave trade Major conflicts: among rival groups within Africa (Moroccan invasion of the Songhai in 1591)

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  1. APWH 1450-1750

  2. AFRICA 1450-1750Key Concepts • 1st significant Euro contact with Africa • Motivations for Euro contact: 3 G’s • Main interest of Euros in Africa: slave trade • Major conflicts: among rival groups within Africa (Moroccan invasion of the Songhai in 1591) • Depopulation of some areas of Africa • Political, economic, and social structures of Africa remained largely intact until the 19th century

  3. Benin Cape Colony Cassava Dahomey Gold Coast Hausa Kongo Maize Manikongo Oyo Slave Coast Songhai Empire Swahili Coast Trans-Saharan trade Whydah AFRICA 1450-1750Key Terms

  4. THE MIDDLE EAST 1450-1750Key Concepts • Capture of Constantinople from the Byzantine Empire by the Ottoman Empire (1453) • Euro powers challenged the empire’s social structure, economic prosperity, and political stability • Safavid Empire (Iran): land-based empire at a time when power and wealth came from naval might and sea trade • Global inflation caused by New World silver brought crisis to the OE and the SE

  5. Anderun Askeri Devshirme system Fatwa Harem Isfahan Ismail Janissary Mufti Qizilbash Raya Shari’a Sufi THE MIDDLE EAST 1450-1750Key Terms

  6. ASIA 1450-1750Key Concepts • Resurgence of traditional Chinese social, political, and economic practices • China retreated from contact with lands to the east and west during the Ming • Tokugawa Shogunate centralized authority in Japan • Shoguns maintained strict control over foreign influences to minimize destabilizing influences in their society • Rise of Euro trade, laying the foundation for colonial domination • Akbar (Mughal emperor): policies of religious toleration allowed for Mughal Empire’s expansion • Akbar’s successors fail to maintain the centralized authority necessary to withstand European involvement in India

  7. Canton system Daimyo Dutch East India Company Jesuit Kabuki theater Little Ice Age Manchu Rajputs Samurai Shogun Sikhs ASIA 1450-1750Key Terms

  8. EUROPE 1450-1750Key Concepts • Major changes after the Crusades and the Black Death • Towns and cities revived, driven by a growing Euro interest in trade which led to exploration and colonization • Humanist world view • Effects of the printing press (led to Sci. Rev. and Enlightenment) • Rise of absolutist regimes

  9. Atlantic System Bourgeoisie Capitalism Caravel Catholic Counter Reformation Columbian Exchange Enlightenment Guild Humanist Indulgence Joint-stock company Mercantilism Middle Passage Papacy Printing press Protestant Reformation Renaissance Scientific Revolution Serf Stock exchange vernacular EUROPE 1450-1750Key Terms

  10. THE AMERICAS 1450-1750Key Concepts • Prior to Euro contact, civilizations throughout the Americas existed in relative isolation from one another • Explorers from Spain, Portugal, England, France, the Netherlands, and others settled throughout the Western Hemisphere • Effects of Columbian Exchange • Consequences of the introduction of African slaves • By 1750, Spain and Portugal controlled Mesoamerica and South America • North American territory was shared by several Euro colonial powers • British settlements would begin pressing for independence

  11. Algonquin Arawak Atlantic System Ayllu Aztec Carib Chartered company Chinampas Columbian Exchange Conquistador Dutch West India Company Encomienda Huron Iroquois Confederacy Inca Indentured servant Khipu Middle Passage Mit’a Plantocracy Treaty of Tordesillas viceroyalty THE AMERICAS 1450-1750Key Terms

  12. MAJOR COMPARISONS • Compare European monarchies w/ land-based Asian Empires • Compare labor systems: Atlantic slave trade; plantation vs. encomienda systems • Compare the building of empires in Asia, Africa, Europe: How was power consolidated? Who had control? Who lost it? • Compare Russia’s interaction w/ West and China or the Ottoman Empire

  13. THE BIG PICTURE • Why did Europe become the dominant power 1450-1750? • Why were some European nation-states able to develop vast empires? • How did the various non-European cultures interact w/ Europeans? Why? Consequences? • How did the global economy change from 1450-1750? • How were the world’s civilizations impacted by this economic change?

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