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Period 4: Global Interactions, c. 1450-1750-20% of test. 4.1 . Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange 4.2. New Forms of Social Organization and Modes of Production 4.3. State Consolidation and Imperial Expansion. Key Concept 4.1: Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange.
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Period 4: Global Interactions, c. 1450-1750-20% of test 4.1. Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange 4.2. New Forms of Social Organization and Modes of Production 4.3. State Consolidation and Imperial Expansion
Key Concept 4.1: Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange • Interconnection of western and eastern hemispheres key transformation • Technological innovations-transoceanic voyages (caravels, astrolabe, cartography) • Global circulation of commodities– new regional markets and financial centers • Spread of religion through commerce, as well as migration of peoples • Exchange of germs, flora and fauna
Key Concept 4.1: Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange • Official Chinese maritime activity expanded with Zheng He • Portugal, West Africa, Asia, S. America=Global trading empire • Spain-Columbus, American empire • North Atlantic-fishing and NW passage to Asia • European activity in Oceana did not disrupt traditional trade activity there
Key Concept 4.1: Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange • New Atlantic Trade system • Mercantilism • Capitalism-Joint Stock Companies • Slave Trade • Columbian Exchange • Colonialism in Americas
Commodities • Silver • Sugar • Slaves • Food (potato, corn) • Tobacco • Domesticated Animals • Fur • Coffee beans used first in Yemen and then later in Europe and the Americas • European using chocolate technology from the Aztecs 17th Century
Commodities • African slave trade Notice the primary destinations
Dissemination of New ideas • Religion • Christianity • Islam-Afroeurasia, split between Sunni and Shia • Buddhism within Asia • Syncretic-new religions-Vodun, Cults of Saints, Sikhism • Science • Literature and literacy– Candide, Shakespeare
Key Concept 4.2: New forms of Social Organization and Modes of Production • Still predominately agrarian economy globally, but new methods in crop and field rotation as well as new crops • Increased proto-industrialization, urbanization and commerce (long distance trade) • Challenges to political and social order by peasants and elites, changing status of merchants. • Demographic growth • New forms of coerced and semi-coerced labor • New varieties of ethnic and racial classifications
Key Concept 4.2: New forms of Social Organization and Modes of Production • Peasant Labor intensified • Siberia • Cotton Textile in India • Silk textile in China • Coerced Labor • Chattel Slavery • Indentured Servitude • Encomiendas • Mita-adapted by Spanish
Key Concept 4.2: New forms of Social Organization and Modes of Production • New Elites • Manchus in China • Creoles in Spanish America • Urban commercial entrepreneurs in port cities • Power Fluctuations • Nobility of Europe • Japanese daimyo • Gender and family restructuring • New ethnic and racial classifications-Mestizo, Mulatto, Creole
Key Concept 4.3: Types and Varieties of Colonialism and Empires • European empires more maritime than territorial (Indian and Atlantic Oceans) • European empires in Americas-settlement • Land-based empires of Ming and Qing China, and the Ottomans– supported by tribute and tax-collection systems and characterized by expansion, incorporation of cultural and religious minorities, and imperial power through art. • Decline in interior West African empires as coastal societies strengthened (trade w/ Euros)
Key Concept 4.3: Types and Varieties of Colonialism and Empires • Rulers consolidated and legitimized power • Art-monumental architecture, courtly literature • Religion-divine right of kings, Aztec human sacrifice, Songhay promotion of Islam, Chinese and Confucian rituals • Differential Treatment of ethnic and religious groups-Ottoman treatment of non-Muslims, Manchus toward Chinese • Use of bureaucracy and military-Chinese civil service exam, salaried samurai in Japan • Taxatio
Key Concept 4.3: Types and Varieties of Colonialism and Empires • Imperial Authorities used gunpowder, cannons, and armed trade • New trading posts in W. Africa (global trade and affected balance of power in W. Africa) • Enlarged land empires-Manchus, Mughals, Ottomans, Russians • Maritime Empires-Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, French, British • Competition over trade routes, rivalries between states, and local resistance-Piracy in Caribbean, Thirty Years War, Food riots, peasant uprisings,