The technological innovations of deep-draft ships, the compass, and cannons gave Western European countries a military advantage over other parts of the world. This allowed them to begin exploring and colonizing globally in the 15th-16th centuries, starting with routes down the coast of Africa and to the Americas, India, Brazil, and Asia. The exchange of diseases, slaves, crops, and goods between colonized regions and Europe created a new global economy dominated by Western "core areas" that exploited raw materials from colonial "dependent zones" for manufactured goods and profit. By the 17th century, this global trade network established Western European dominance over most of the world.
The technological innovations of deep-draft ships, the compass, and cannons gave Western European countries a military advantage over other parts of the world. This allowed them to begin exploring and colonizing globally in the 15th-16th centuries, starting with routes down the coast of Africa and to the Americas, India, Brazil, and Asia. The exchange of diseases, slaves, crops, and goods between colonized regions and Europe created a new global economy dominated by Western "core areas" that exploited raw materials from colonial "dependent zones" for manufactured goods and profit. By the 17th century, this global trade network established Western European dominance over most of the world.
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The technological innovations of deep-draft ships, the compass, and cannons gave Western European countries a military advantage over other parts of the world. This allowed them to begin exploring and colonizing globally in the 15th-16th centuries, starting with routes down the coast of Africa and to the Americas, India, Brazil, and Asia. The exchange of diseases, slaves, crops, and goods between colonized regions and Europe created a new global economy dominated by Western "core areas" that exploited raw materials from colonial "dependent zones" for manufactured goods and profit. By the 17th century, this global trade network established Western European dominance over most of the world.
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What technological innovations made the global domination of the West possible?
• deep-draft, round-hulled sailing ships – could carry heavy armament
• compass • cannons – metalwork & gunpowder • leads to military advantage over rest of world Describe the early exploration of the world by the West. • Portuguese start – down coast of Africa • Spain – Americas, Philippines • Vasco da Gama to India • Portuguese to Brazil, set up forts in Africa, Indonesia, Japan • Magellan around world • France, England, Dutch (counter Catholic gains) • French – North America • British - North America, West Indies • Dutch – Southeast Asia, South Africa What was the Columbian exchange? • A biological exchange- means that things like diseases and slaves were traded. Define the terms “core area” & “dependent zone”. • Core area – dominant countries, good economies, mercantilism, tariffs, used raw materials from dependent zones to manufacture goods and sell back to dependent zones • Dependent Zone – produce low cost goods, raw materials, human labor, sell to core areas, rely on core areas for manufactured goods What areas remained outside the new global economy prior to 1600? What areas were added in the 17th century? • East Asia • Japan • Mughal Empire in India • Russia • India • Eastern Europe • Latin America How did the British & French North America differ from other European colonies? • religious refugees • government land grants, recruit settlers • kept Western civilization, didn’t mix with Indians (no new cultural groups) • less treasure seeking – more “settled” • strongly influenced by European politics, culture What were the results of the creation of a world economy? • internal changes within areas • Africa – loss of young people • India – manufacturing decline • Interactions with Europeans Discuss the ways that the creation of a global economy in the 16th & 17th centuries differed from the previous trade networks that had existed between civilizations. • dominated by West – not East or Islam • new areas added – Africa, Americas • increase in international trade leads to core regions & dependent zones • dependent zones exploited by core regions • raw materials exported (coercive labor systems) Discuss the reasons allowing the West to establish its dominance in the global trade network of the 17th century. • withdrawal of possible rivals (China, Islamic world) • Ottomans not dedicated to commerce & not fully in control of regions critical to Islamic trade network • China self-sufficient, withdraws from world trade network • Japan isolates