Part 3: Intro

Question 0

Triggers for change

Answer 0

1. Revival of empire building
   Example; The Ottoman Turks who conquered Constantinople
2. Because Christian leaders were losing territory and influence they began to compensate by exploring along the Atlantic coast of Africa
   The Christian leaders wanted to find ways to trade with East Asia that would avoid the Islamic powers
3. New military technologies
   Europeans use compasses and other navigational devices first introduced the Chinese and Arabs
   The most important new military Technology was the growing use of guns and gun powder

Guns played a vital role in The creation of new empires both on land and overseas

Question 1

The world map changes

Answer 1

First change is that new empires replaced smaller political units
The second change involved trade routes
International trade routes involved the Pacific and Atlantic by 1750

Question 2

The big changes

Answer 2

A the forging new global economy
B. new biological exchanges of food animals and people
C. the emergence of new large empires based on guns and gunnery

Question 3

Biological exchange

Answer 3

Foods from the Americas like corn and the potato began to grow in Asia and later year which resulted in population increases
Europeans introduce new diseases in the Americas and Pacific Island territories decimating the native population
Population lost encourage new migration
New animals like the horse altered life in the Americas
Labor shortage in America’s resulted in the massive African slave trade

Question 4

Continuity

Answer 4

Societies reacted to the big changes in the early modern. By preserving key features of their past
Notable developments took place within individual societies
The new influence of science in Western Europe
The rise of Japanese Confucianism
A continuity would be that the spread of world religions continued with Islam reaching South East Asia and parts of south Eastern Europe
Native Americans kept their regional culture despite the introduction of Christianity
No changes occurred in gender relations in the early modern.
More men than women seized Africa and encourage African polygamy
Continuity would be that the relation between men and women in most societies adhered establish patterns
No technological breakthroughs until after 1750
Political change was signaled by the rise of empires but several societies emphasize continuity in this realm as well
China revived and maintained its system of government
African societies preserve traditions of divine kinship

Question 5

Impact of daily life: work

Answer 5

Measles smallpox brought by the African and European immigrants
Europeans use silver to pay for desirable Chinese goods
Because the Chinese government acquired so much wealth they require taxes be paid in silver
This caused a large portion of the Chinese to fall deeper into poverty
The most general social change during the early modern period was a growing pressure to work harder
This period was increasingly commercial and crowded
Population increases led to harder work to sustain larger families and villages
Protestantantism preached a hard work ethic
Child labor increased
Indentured laborers which were usually children, would be sent to work in English factories or North America