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Period: 1450 BCE to 1750 BCE
Unit 4
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1400
Atlantic Slave Trade 1450-1750
the Atlantic slave trade, Chattel slavery transported 10-12 million slaves from Africa to the Americas. The importance of the slave trade, was that the Europeans and the Americans gained immense profits from the slave trade made it possible for economic and political growth. -
1450
Technological Innovations 1450-1750
There were several developments made ships faster as well as safer to sail. Ships moved more adroitly aided with a new type of rudder, imported from china and the astrolabe from the Muslim navigators. And the lateen sail from the are sailors in the Indian ocean. Laos there were 3 different kinds of ships, the Carrack, Caravel, and Fluyt. Long term effects were the global expansion, spread the ideas of navigational techniques to use in the future. -
1492
Columbian exchange
Christopher Columbus, land in the Caribbean and started the Columbian exchange. Which is the exchange of goods, people, and disease. The most important is the spread of disease, where small pox's where spread from Europe to the Americas that killed most of the percentage of the natives. The Columbian exchange also transported goods. Europe introduced horses and sugar to the Americas, and the Americas introduced potatoes, maize, and pigs. -
1500
Colonialism
Europeans wanted more gold and silver, meaning to get more exports then need more raw materials from colonies. An example would be the prorogues which created a trading post empire. -
Mercantilism 16th- 18th century
Mercantilism is the economic system in Europe. Th idea was that there was only a fixed amount of wealth. Meaning the all the gold and silver in the world was one big unit, therefore to have more gold or silver someone else had to lose some. The system lead to conflict between the European powers. -
Enlightenment
The idea that the world has natural laws, and that if we can get to the wisdom of the natural laws then we can apply them to society. In contrast to outside beliefs like religion. -
John Locke
Entered a new political standpoint to empiricism. He believed that the divine right of kings was deeply flawed and that humans bestowed on natural right such as life liberty and property not bestowed from a king. The people have a social contract with government, that the government is in the hands of the people. -
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Unit 5
Mass global changes because of industrial revolution -
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Unit 6
Imperialism -
British east India company
The British established themselves in India, with the British east India company in order to be apart of the spice trade. With being unhappy their their presence in the spice trade they put more political influence over India in order to get cotton for their textile machines in Britain. -
Adam Smith
Criticked mercantilism which used a heavy hand from the government. He argued for laissez -fair, further meaning that the government should let the people make the economic choices and be guided by the invisible hand of the market. -
Industrial revolution
Started in England because it was close to water, which made easy an inexpensive trade. England also had raw materials, and huge deposits of coal, and iron that leaded the industrial revolution. The industrial revolution changed more manual labor to factories that were machine based. -
Gender roles
Men began to leave their homes in order to find jobs and, therefore changed the gender roles. The women's role grew larger in the homes as well as in the larger society. Some cases men would wait for another mail before leaving or their families moved with the men. In those cases gender roles stayed the same. -
Opium wars
The British began smuggling opium into china to balance out their trade deficit, the opium was from India in which the British east India company forced to make opium. The Chinese became tired of being taken advantage for the opium and rose up against the British. -
Tenements and Cholera
As migrates moved to cities, the cities population became quite large. The new living structure was made because factory owners saw hat their workers needed a place to live, they were made very quickly and had poor ventilation. With many people crammed into stuffy rooms there began a spread of disease such as cholera. -
Suez Canal
British wanted a shorter route to Asia. So they wanted to build a canal in Egypt to connect the Mediterranean sea and the red sea. Britain took control of it from the ottomans. The canal created the prefect place for exports through the world. -
Scramble for africa
As European powers began taking parts of Africa, people became for competitive. Some people believe that the scramble for Africa/ tension would lead to conflict. -
Berlin conference
Ottovan ban Bismarck, and he decided to call the berlin conference in which the imperial leaders divided up Africa, to avoid war. It divided up the united Africans and combined rival groups.
