Global Interactions, ​c. 1450-1750

Land Empires

Topics:

• Gunpowder
• Russia, Prussia, and Austria
  
• Manchus 
• Mughals
• Ottomans
• Safavids

Goals:

• ​Explain how and why land-based empires expanded.
• ​​Explain how rulers legitimized and consolidated their power in land-based empires.

Discovery

Topics:

• Renaissance
• Transoceanic Travel
• ​Portuguese and Spanish Exploration
• ​English, French, and Dutch Exploration
• The Columbian Exchange

Goals:

• ​​Explain how cross-cultural interactions resulted spread technology and changed patterns of trade and travel.
• ​​Describe how states supported maritime exploration.
• ​​Explain the economic causes and effects of European maritime exploration.
• ​​​Explain the impact of the Columbian Exchange.

Maritime Empires

Topics:

• European Maritime Empires
• Asian Isolation & Intra-Asian Trade
• African Kingdoms and the African Diaspora
• Labor
• Mercantilism
• The Atlantic Community

Goals:
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• ​​​Explain the process of state building and expansion.
• Explain economic and labor systems.
• ​Explain systems of slavery.
• ​​​Explain how rulers used economic strategies to consolidate and maintain power.
• ​Explain networks of exchange.
• ​Explain how political, economic, and cultural factors affected society.
• ​Explain how various belief systems affected societies.

Social Relations

Topics:

• Reformations
• Sunni and Shi'a
• Sikhism ​
• ​​Resistance
• Diversity
• Elites

Goals:

• ​​Explain continuity and change within the various belief systems.
• ​​Explain the effects of the development of state power.
• ​​​Explain how social categories, roles, and practices have been maintained or have changed over time.

Links

• A Buffet of French History
• European Encounters in the Age of Expansion
• Guy Fawkes - a summaryHistory in an Hour
• How did Henry VII spend his money?
• How Machiavelli Trolled Europe’s Princes
• In 1492, Spain Forced Jews to Flee the Country or Convert to Christianity
• ​Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Notebooks Now Online: Browse 570 Digitized Pages
• Life in Tudor London
• Lutheran Insulter :: List of Insults
• Machiavelli: Good Guy or Bad? This Biography Argues for the Former
• Mass Grave from Thirty Years' War Battle Reveals Soldiers' Fatal Wounds
• Medieval and modern concepts of rights: how do they differ?
• Myths of Russian History: Does the word 'Slavs' derive from the 'slave'?
• Porto travel guide - Wikitravel
• The ‘America’ Map - Review of ‘A Renaissance Globemaker’s Toolbox’
• The Bizarre Story of 'Vasa,' the Ship That Keeps On Giving
• The Fashion & Culture of the Elizabethan Lifestyle
• The Second Life of Henri IV’s Severed Head
• The town that split the world in two
• What made 17th-century England so unbearable that thousands risked the voyage to America?
• Why Did Michelangelo Hate Raphael So Much? 5 Ferocious Feuds That Shaped Art History
• Workshop of Fra Filippo Lippi ​
• YouTube - 500 Years of Female Portraits in Western Art
• EGO - European Encounters in the Age of Expansion
• New York Times - Why America Is Called America
• Hark! A Vagrant - The Discovery of Canada
• Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Reformation
• Deutsche Welle - Luther is famous, but we know little about him
• Freelance History Writer - Letter from Katherine of Aragon, Princess of Wales, to Her Father, Ferdinand II of Aragon, 1505
• The Guardian - Spain's Moriscos: a 400 year old Muslim tragedy is a story for today
• ​Atlas Obscura - It Was Once Someone’s Job to Chat With the King While He Used the Toilet
• History Today - The Cheapest Bookstore in the World: James Lackington and the Creation of Modern Bookselling
• Deutsche Welle - What made Austria's Maria Theresa a one-of-a-kind ruler
  
• The Independent - Huge Roundhead civil war battle flag will go on display for first time in 350 years