Unit III 1450-1750 (19-20%) (97 topics)

 

 

1. Questions of periodization

 Nature and causes of changes associated with the time span

 

Unit I as a historical period (Here explain why these years, 8000 B.C.E. to 600 C.E., can be classified as a historical unit of study, what events frame it, what makes it unique, what are some of its primary features or developments?)

2. Changes in trade, technology, and global interactions

    A. Motives for European Exploration

    B. Impact of New Technology- guns, shipbuilding, navigational devices

    C. Importance of European exploration- Columbia Exchange

D. Commercial Revolution

         i. mercantilism

        ii. trading post empires

       iii. joint-stock company

    E. Explorations of Pacific

3. Knowledge of major empires and other political units and social systems

    A. European Balance of Power

    B. Absolutism

 C. Spanish Conquest

                    i. Americas- Colonial Empire

                        a. haciendas

                        b. plantation system

                        c. encomienda system

                        d. Repartimiento system

                        e. Role of Christianity

                        f. Importance of Sugar

                        g. Importance of Silver

                   ii. Philippines

D. Colonial North America

                   i. Seven Years’ War

                  ii. Indentured labor

              iii. Role of Christianity

 

 

E. Ming Dynasty

                  i. Matteo Ricci

                 ii.  Ming, Social and Cultural Changes

 

     F. Qing Dynasty

 

    G. Tokugawa Period

 

                  i. Japanese Isolation

 

                 ii. Japanese Political Change

 

                    iii. Japanese Social and Economic Changes

 

H. Ottoman Empire

 

                i. Ottoman Rise and Expansion

 

               ii. Suleyman the Magnificent

 

           iii. Ottoman, impact of gunpowder

 

        iv. Janissaries

 

      I. Safavid Empire

 

      J. Mogul (Mughal) Empire

 

 

                 ii. Taj Mahal

 

       iii.British Economic Interests

 

K. Characteristics of African kingdoms

 

                 i. Kongo (Relationship with Portugal)

 

                ii. Benin

 

                 iii. Dahomey

 

                iv. Songhay

 

L. Russian Empire

 

                i. Russia, break from Mongols

 

               ii. Ivan the Terrible

                    a. boyars

 

               iii. The Romanovs

 

                    a. Westernization

 

                    b. Peter the Great

 

 c. St. Petersburg

 

                    d. Catherine the Great

 

                    e. Serfdom

 

    M. Gender and empire (including the role of women in households and in politics)

 

4. Slave systems and slave trade

   A. Slavery in Africa

   B. Atlantic Slave Trade

             i. Impact in Africa

            ii. African Diaspora

           iii. Abolition of Slavery

 

5. Demographic and environmental changes

 

   A. Diseases

 

   B. Animals

 

   C. New crops

 

   D. Comparative population trends

 

6. Cultural and intellectual developments

 

    A. Scientific Revolution

 

        i. Causes

 

          ii. Scientists

 

    B.  Enlightenment

i. Deism

 

           ii. Enlightenment philosophes

 

           iii. Impact

 

      C. Comparative global causes and impacts of cultural change (e.g., African contributions to cultures in the Americas) 

 

D. Major developments and exchanges in the arts (e.g., Mughal, the Americas)

 

      E. Creation of new religions

 

      i. Vodun

 

     ii. Zen

 

     iii. Sikhism

 

F. Protestantism (Protestant Reformation)

 

i. Martin Luther

 

          ii. Thirty Years War

 

         iii. Counter-Reformation

 

               a. Jesuits

 

               b. Index of books

 

7. Compare colonial administrations

 

     A. British administration of North American colonies (include impact on later independence)

 

    B. Spanish adminstration of South American colonies (include impact on later independence) 

 

8. Compare coercive labor systems

 

9. Analyze the development of empire (i.e., general empire building in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas)

 

     A.  Development of Empire in Asia

 

     B. Development of Empire in Africa

 

    C. Development of Empire in Europe

 

    D. Development of Empire in the Americas

 

10. Analyze imperial systems: a European seaborne empire compared with a land­based Asian empire

 

11. Compare Russia's interaction with:

 

   A. Russia and the Ottoman Empire

 

   B. Russia and China

 

   C. Russia and Western Europe

 

   D. Russia and Eastern Europe