Early+Modern+Period

1. The World Economy 2. Europe 1450-1470 3. The Rise of Russia 4. Spain and Portugal in the Americas 5. Africa6. Ottoman/ Shafavids/Mughal 7. The World Shrinks
 * Region || Major Events || Major Developments || Major Continuities ||
 * Western Europe

MI: Western Europe was centered arounf the Renaissance when the society started to change and become more developed. During the Enlightenment their was new developments like the new theory created by Copernicus and the theory of Garvity. But the developments still continue for example the women rights movement. || * Renaissance
 * Enlightenment || * different in Christianity and Protestantism || * Woman rights movement. ||
 * Central/South America

MI: Portugal and the Spanish colonized central and south america. And used the Aztecs and Incas became their labor workers in plantations and mining colonize after the discovery of golds and silver. || * Colonization || * Plantations(sugar)
 * Mining for metals to use for trade.
 * Colony of Brazil || * trading.
 * economic troubles within the Spanish and Portuguese colonies. ||
 * North America

MI: The North Americans used slaves gained in the Atlantic slave trade from Africa to use a labor workers. They used them for agriculture and mining. Which led to greater trade and more peasant class living in small villages. || * Atlantic slave trade. || * Carribean
 * Hispanidola
 * the ecomendas
 * Created a Bureaucratic empire that let to a key elemental factor.
 * Agriculture and mining. || * trade
 * pattern of peasants living in small villages. ||
 * Russia

MI: The development of Russia started with the ruling of the Ivans and letter leading to the improvements by Peter and Cathrine the great leading to westernization of their region. The Nobility had to shave off their beards symbolizing their lose in power and the start of the serf class. and how they went from having a sense of will to being complete slaves. || * the start of the Ivans.
 * Improvements by Peter the Great.
 * Improvements by Cathrine the Great. || * Westernization.
 * Nobility had to shave off their beards to show lose of people within Russia.
 * Serfs. || * Trading with Europe. ||
 * Middle East

MI: The middle east was for most about war and how to use more weapons as advantages. They used military units to rule over small villages and the peasants had to tend to the soldiers. || * Rise a new sects. The Silkhas strained to decline in resources in the imperial empire. || * Taj Mahal: best known artitecture.
 * ottoman empire.
 * Military units were put incharge of small villages. || * trade
 * Islam ||
 * Africa

MI: Africa was influenced the the Euopeans and were traded as slaves. But sometimes the Africans would trade their own people so they could have more guns to use to get more slaves. It led to the development of factories, forts and ports where they could keep goods and where the merchant class could live. And it eventually led to slavery of Africa and trading them across the Atlantica and trading them triangularly. || * Slave Trade
 * Triangular trade
 * Fall of the Songhay empire.
 * came under European control. || * factories were developed
 * forts and ports which contained resident merchants.
 * El Mina was the heart of gold production.
 * trade off other Africans for guns. || * trade
 * European
 * Slavery ||
 * India

MI: Influenced the the British when the Europeans started to get involved with their trading network. Leading to the East India trading comapny and how the british over time started to gain control. || * trade with Europe. || * East India Trading Company. || * trade ||
 * China

MI: Started to trade with the Europeans when they entered the trading network. The Chinese thought of the European influence as an improvement to their society and did not mind them getting involved in trade. || * Trading with Europe. || * thought of it as a way of improving their society. || * trade ||
 * Japan

MI: The Japan unlike China did not like the European involvement in their trade and tried to resist their influence. So they sank their ships and cut off the missionaries heads. || * Trade with Europe. || * resisted the trading influence from europe.
 * Sank the ships of missionaries and cut off their heads. || * trade
 * significance of chinese culture. ||