Early+Modern+Period



The world economy Renaissance The Rise of Russia Early Latin America Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Slave trade The Muslim Empire Asian Transitions in an Age of Global Change



The World Map Changes MI: The world map is continually changing in empires and trade routes. Triggers for Change MI: Technology and intellectual life was increasing during the early modern period. The big changes MI: Changes for the world empires impact different areas in society's reactions, international trade, and food. Continuity MI: With the new changes to the empires, there are continuities of gender relations and religion. Impact of daily life: Work <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">MI: Life during the time of the early modern period was all about working harder. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Trends and societies in Early Modern Period <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">MI: The following chapters are about how global trade and travels increasing change as well as other parts of the work and how new civilizations began on a rise for great power. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">*Mercantilism ; wealth = power the idea of have money means power
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">European' s small regional area are being combined into larger ones
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Russian and Ottoman empires are expanding
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">international trade are going into the New World or the Americas
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Ottoman Turks extended rule all the way towards Europe; conflicting with the Christians
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">explorations into the Americas was a growing idea
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">new military technologies - compass, cannons from gunpowder, sailing ships
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">traveling into the Americas was the beginning of different changes
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">new diseases being pass on from traveling, migrations into new world was encourage, growing new food in their own area was also encouraged
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">new military => different political units
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">religion was still being spread
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">slaves trade had more men being taken compared to women
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">societies had in increase of people using gunpowder
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">political change => rise of empires
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">china fell deeper into poverty because of silver taxing
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Africans were being taken away into a permanent life of slavery
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">London orphans begin working at a young age => child labor

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Causation and the West's Expansion <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">If you had to choose a single determinism( cultural, technological, or economic) as basic to social change, which one would you pick? Why? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">cultural because its the determinism that would influence people. culture is what influence in what people would do and believe. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">economy - nation can not strive without the money; money is needed for everything; buying alliances; affects the empire & their choices <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">conquered land and tried to get natural resources

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">In what ways might the professed motives of Western explorers and colonist have differed from their real motives? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">professed motives of Western explorers and colonist have differed from their real motives be of what they really want in <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">land, culture, and economy. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">spread of religions and imperalism. real motives was to expand economically - spread of religion

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Would they necessarily have been aware of the discrepancy? <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">It would be necessary that they should have been aware of the discrepancy because they should <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">have known how some people did not not enjoy some for the societies. <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">europeans wouldn't notice it because the economy was just manufacturing goods and it was in their culture and it was bigger and better for the nation; imperalism. because it was in their natural they wouldn't notice that it was affect the other people