Early+Modern+Period

This map, shows the travel routes of the Portugese and Spanish. The Voyage of Christopher Columbus is shown. His voyage from Spain to the New World occured in 1492. His voyage allowed Europe to be aware of land that was not connected to them. This started the knowledge and settlement in Present Day North and South America.

Notes: Pages 342-347

The World Map Changes: Triggers For Change: Page 354: Causation and the West's Expansion Questions:
 * Several European countries acquired oversea empires developed
 * In 1450 international trade focused on exchanges among Asia, Africa,and Europe
 * By 1750 oceangoing trade routes across the Pacific and the Atlantic became increasingly important
 * Trade routines sometimes maintained the same

1.) If you had to choose a single determinism (cultural, technological, or economic) as basic to social change, which one would you pick? Why? 2.) In what ways might the professed motives of Western explorers and colonists have differed from their real motives? Would they necessarily have been aware of the discrepency.

The World Economy The Rise of Russia Early Latin America Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Slave Trade The Muslim Empires The World Shrinks Asian Transitions and an Age of Global Change

Western Europe was focused mainly on the Renaissance and humanism. || * Renaissance Central and South America was focused mainly on trade and the exports of Gold in Brazil. || * Encomiendas North America became part of the African slave trade which allowed better realtions with || * Slave trade reached North America. ||  || * Slavery Under the rule of Peter the Great, Russia was based on Westernization and the strong type of military support. || * Reign of Catherine the Great- Westernization The conquest of the Turks led to the creation of new civilizations such as the Ottomans and the Mughals. || * Conquest of the Mongols ||  ||   ||
 * Region || Major Events || Major Developments || Major Continuities ||
 * Western Europe:
 * Humanism- a focus on humankind as the center of intellectual and artistic endeavour
 * Thirty Years War- lasted 30 years between 1618 and the late 1600's. || * Anglican church
 * Johannes Guthenburg and the printing press.
 * Galileo ans the telescope and advanements made in science.
 * Reformation of the Protestant Church. || * Trade
 * Absolute monarchy
 * Social Protest ||
 * Central/South Americas
 * Founding of New Spain.
 * Council of Indes ||  ||   ||
 * North America:
 * Trade ||
 * Russia:
 * Reign of Peter the Great
 * Reign of Ivan the Terrible
 * Pugachev Rebellion- against slave labor || * Westernization
 * Serfdom
 * Cossacks || * Serfdom ||
 * Middle East:
 * India || * ||  ||   ||
 * China || * Mongol tolerance
 * Japan || * ||  ||   ||
 * Japan || * ||  ||   ||

Sub- Saharan Africa: Major Events:
 * The Slave Trade
 * The Triangular Trade