The Origins of Global Interdependence:
1450-1750 C.E.

Chp. 23 (Week 10) | Chp. 24 (Week 11) | Chp. 25 (Week 12) |
Chp. 26 (Week 13) | Chp. 27 (Week 14) | Chp 28 (Week 15) |
Chp 29 (Week 16)

Questions of periodization

1. Continuities and breaks, causes of changes from the previous
   period and within this period
2. Change in global interactions, trade, and technology
3. Knowledge of major empires and other political units and social systems Aztec, Ottoman, Inca, Ming, Qing (Manchu), Portugal, Spain,
   Russia, France, England, Mongol, Tokugawa, Mughal, characteristics of African empires in general but knowing one (Kongo, Benin, Oyo, or Songhay) as illustrative Territorial and commercial aspects of the above Gender and empire (gender systems at the elite level, alliances, women and households in politics) Slave systems and slave trade.
4. Demographic and environmental changes: diseases, animals, new
   crops, and comparative population trends
5. Cultural and intellectual developments:
   • Scientific Revolution
   • The Enlightenment
   • Comparative global causes and impacts of cultural change
   • Neoconfucianism
   • Major developments and exchanges in the arts (e.g., Mughal)
6. Diverse interpretations
   What are the debates about the timing and extent of European
   predominance in the world economy?

Major Comparisons and Snapshots

• Imperial systems: European monarchy compared with a land-based Asian empire
• Coercive labor systems: slavery and other coercive labor systems in the Americas
• Comparative knowledge of empire (i.e., general empire building in Asia, Africa, and Europe)
• Compare Russia’s interaction with the west with the interaction of one of the following (Ottoman Empire, China, Tokugawa Japan, Mughal India) with the west

Examples of the types of information students are expected to know contrasted with examples of those things students are not expected to know:

• Neoconfucianism, but not specific Neoconfucianists
• Importance of European exploration, but not individual explorers
• Characteristics of European absolutism, but not specific rulers
• Reformation, but not Anabaptism or Huguenots
• Ottoman conquest of Constantinople, but not Safavid Empire
• Siege of Vienna (1688–89), but not the Thirty Years’ War
• Slave plantation systems, but not Jamaica’s specific slave system
• Institution of the harem, but not Hurrem Sultan