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- After late middle ages
- the golden age of piracy
- first phase of Industrial Revolution
- The great divergence
- The beginning of European colonialism
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- 1480 to 1500
-the three Gunpowder empires were thriving
-they were more advanced than any European country
-Safavid, Ottoman, and Mongol
-These empires had a lot of power |
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-every region of the world became intricatley connected to every other region
-caused population growth |
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- early 1600's
-thousands of Native Americans died
-died from the European diseases
-fundamental to the English settlement
-"God wanted this to be their territory" |
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-area goverend by Khan
-when Ghengis Khan died he seperated his empire into four sectoins for his four sons
-Khanate of Kipchak (Golden Horde)
-Khanate of Chaghadai
-Khanate of Persia
-Khanate of the Great Khan |
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-central east-asian ethnic group
-live mainly in Mongol, Russia, and China
-speak Mongolic languages
-there are approx. 10 million Mongols
-Under rule of Ghengis Khan |
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- a major way of transportation
- having to do or pertaining to the sea
-mar is latin for sea
-major way of traed and colonizing
-way of control for ex: China controlled Indian Ocean and all it's trade |
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-firm that connects buyers and sellers
-in the same of different countries
-does not get involved in the owning or selling of merchandise
-company coompensated by the seller
-usually with a sales comission |
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-dominent nations in the world
-Nations, usually European, that enjoyed profit from world economy
-Examples are England, Germany, France, Japan
-Advanced industrial societies of America
-relatively independent |
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-Merchants/ traders are free to trade and move
-The government restricts who you can and can't trade with
-government controlled capitalism
-It provides protection for trade and begining of capitalism
-Navigation Act |
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-an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods
-distribution of goods are determined mainly by competition in a free market
-during the Industrial Revolution
-capitalism was formed to describe the then emerging colonies of the New World
-gradually spread throughout the western world in the 19th and 20th centuries
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-a political or geopolitical entity
-a ethnic and/or cultural entity
-a state that self-identifies as deriving its political legitimacy from serving as a sovereign entity for a nation as a sovereign territorial unit
-The term "nation state" implies that the two geographically coincide
-The key distinction from the other forms is the identification of a people with a polity |
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-complete power in the government
-not relative, dependant, or changeable
-totalitarianism, tyranny, immoral
-France is an example of absolutism in the early modern era
-in European history monarchs practiced absolutism |
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-the concentration of administrative power in a central government, authority
-power centralized in a few individuals
-originally with refernce to Napoleonic France
-cluster around a center (v.)
-opposite decentralization |
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-Ottoman
-Safavid
-Mughal
-14th and late 17th centuries
-had stong militaries with advanced weapons |
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-adopting or coming under the influence of Western culture
-related to the proccess of acculturation
-American culture, food expanding outside of America
-ex: McDonalds, Wal Mart, etc
-Also westernization is seen in architecture of buildings
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-period of European economic expansion
-lasted from 16th century to early 18th century
-was succeeded by the Industrial Revolution
-growth of banking, insurance, and investing
-caused migration of people from Europe to the Americas |
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- a typr of corperation or partnership involving two or more individuals
-they own shares of stock within the company
-one shareholder can sell their share to the other
-each have a certificate of ownership
-the English were the first with joint-stock companies |
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-later marriages
-less children
-used contract to ensure children woud take care of them
-parents worried about their future
-all children were mostly guarenteed some sort of inheritance |
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-16th and 17th centuries
-brought knowledge in physics, astronomy, biology, medicine, and chemistry
-The Englightenment succeeded the Scientific Revolution
-from medieval to modern science
-Alexandre Koyre named this epoch The Scientific Revolution |
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- "parliament" may simply refer to a democratic government's legislature
-derived from the French parlement, the action of parler (to speak)
-a parlement is a discussion
-the term came to mean a meeting at which such a discussion took place
-first occurred in 1236 in England |
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-a cultural movement in Europe who tried to reform society and advance knowledge
-It promoted science and intellectual interchange and opposed superstition, intolerance and abuses in church and state
-The printing press precipitated the Enlightenment
-center of the Enlightenment was France
-The Enlightenment was "Mankind's final coming of age, the emancipation of the human consciousness from an immature state of ignorance and error |
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-the act or process of reforming an institution or practice
-the religious movement in the 16th century that had for its object the reform of the Roman Catholic Church
-led to the establishment of the Protestant churches.
-improvement, alteration for the better
-Martin Luther was a leader in the Reformation |
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-an indigenous organized religion of coastal West Africa from Nigeria to Ghana
-otherwise known as Voodoo (Haitian Creole)
-practised by the Ewe, Kabye, Mina and Fon peoples of southeastern Ghana
- practiced by southern and central Togo, southern and central Benin and the Yoruba of southwestern Nigeria
-Religion was found in the New World after the African Disaspora |
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-follower of Sikhism
-originated in the 15th century
-originated in south asia
-monotheistic religion
-means "student" or "instruction" |
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-a major grouping of Christianity
-established by Martin Luther
-formed after the Reformation in Europe from Catholicism
-derived from Latin protestari
-means to publically declare/ protest |
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-transformation of a society from close identification with religious values
-A society ttransformed to non-religious values and secular institutes
-lifting of the monastic restrictions from a member of the clergy
-seperation of church and state
-Considerations of both tolerance and autonomy are relevant to any secular state |
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-period in which Europe discovered the rest of the world
-from mid 15 centures to 250 years later
-Began with Henry the navigator
-Also began with Portugese voyages
-J.H. Perry wrote a book about this period which he named the Reconnaisance |
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-descendants of central asian turco-mongol armies
-immigrants from Iran and Qizilbash
-during the 17th century
-two clans within this group
-Chughtai and Barlas |
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-turkic speaking people
-numbering around 7million
-live in Russia, Poland, central Asia
-they adopted Islam
-originated in Latin or French |
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