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World History: The Earth and its Peoples. Chapter 20 Eurasia , 1500-1800. Objectives. Understand the roles of the Jesuits and the East India Companies in the development of cultural exchange and trade between Europe and Eastern Eurasia.
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World History:The Earth and its Peoples Chapter 20 Eurasia, 1500-1800
Objectives • Understand the roles of the Jesuits and the East India Companies in the development of cultural exchange and trade between Europe and Eastern Eurasia. • Be able to use the concept of “land-based empires” to analyze the territorial expansion, the economic and political structures, and the foreign relations of the Russian and Qing empires. • Be able to describe the causes and symptoms of the decline of the Qing state in the eighteenth century. • Be able to describe the Tokugawa political system and explain why and how the decentralized political structure contributed simultaneously to economic growth and the weakening of the Tokugawa state.
Eastern Eurasia, 1500-1800 Eurasian Patterns • no central rule • weakening of overland trade • advent of seaborne trade • Land–Based Empires • Ottoman, Mughal, Russian, Ming • emphasis on agriculture • forced labor, serfdom • political centralization • disadvantage to sea-based • European Influence • Society of Jesus (Jesuits) • missionaries • Matteo Ricci (1552-1610) • European technology
The Russian Empire Muscovite Princes • Moscow • Ivan IV – 1547 • tsar • removal of Golden Horde • “Time of Troubles” • Sweden, Poland, Ottomans • replacement of Princes • Mikhail Romanov • boyar • consolidation and competition Russian Culture • Slavic (Russian) and Turkic • Cossacks • Turkic word – ‘warrior’ • Turks, E. Europeans, Mongols • defended western frontier
The Russian Empire Peter the Great – 1689-1725 • Black Sea port, Christianity • ‘Great Northern War’ – 1700-21 • Baltic Sea access • European recognition • St. Petersburg – 1712 • “window on the West” • strengthen state / autocracy • Political autocracy • boyars, church, peasants • serfdom • Eastern Push • less threat in west • Mongolia / Siberia / Pacific • fur trade • natural resources • timber, precious metals
Ming and Qing Empires, 1500-1800 Late Ming - 1500-1644 • Strengths • silk, furniture, porcelain • Portuguese and Dutch • tributary status • vast population (100M) • Weaknesses • climate change • famine and disease • external pressure • Mongolia • Manchus • Japan in Korea - 1582 • ‘silver’ inflation • uprisings • 1644 rebellion
Ming and Qing Empires, 1500-1800 Qing Empire - 1644-1783 • Manchus • minority rule • Taiwan, C. Asia (Tibet) • Kangxi - 1662-1722 • Russian struggles • Treaty of Nerchinsk - 1689 • Amur River border • Mongolia - 1691 • Jesuit influence - 1600s • Confucian ancestor worship • two-way influence • variolation • Qianlong - 1736-1796
Ming and Qing Empires, 1500-1800 European Thirst • Luxury items • tea, silk, porcelain, wallpaper • political philosophy • benevolent despots • limitless profit potential • EIC Chinese Trade • imperial control • taxation; limit piracy • kowtow (VOC) • “the Canton system” • Portugal, Holland, England • Macartney mission - 1793 • open trade with G. Britain • negative European reaction
Ming and Qing Empires, 1500-1800 Qing Stresses • rising population • 400M by 1700 • stagnant agriculture • deforestation • erosion • Grand Canal • localized misery • migration • failure to adapt to changes • local elites • corruption • shrinking revenues • land-based empires • maintenance costs
Tokugawa Japan to 1800 Shogunates - 1200-1500 • little centralized rule • Tokugawa Shogunate - 1600 • relative peace • land grants for support • daimyo • rice • samurai • emperor as figurehead • Edo to Kyoto traffic • urban centers for trade • Shogun responses • samurai • economic well being • merchants • control prices
Tokugawa Japan to 1800 Merchant Class • rise in wealth • alliances with daimyo • key to industrial transformation Isolation • Jesuits • mixed response • few converts (farmers) • peasant revolts • Christian blame • closing of country - 1649 • prevent outside influences • “Dutch studies” • Effect • ignored by some daimyos • ‘outer’ lords
Tokugawa Japan to 1800 Instability • ‘outer’ lord sea trade • population growth • increasing rice prices • samurai economic decline • debt to merchants • Shogunate Power • rested on daimyo / samurai health • traditional land-based response • Confucian ideals • decentralized government • little economic control • Military to Civil Society • “Forty-seven Ronin” - 1702