BLOG 2: Stayer, Chapter 13; Political Transformations
Chapter 13 - Political Transformations (Empires and Encounters) 1450 - 1750
Across America there were powerful European empires. Again the early modern age was an age of empire's growth. These empires are mixed with diverse people which represents a new stage of the globalization.
By the mid-eighteenth century, Europeans successfully extended their empires because of their geographical location. They were well positioned for commerce and access to the world. Ones the Americas were discovered; natural resources and productive agricultural lands has helped the long term growth of the European economy between the 19th and 20th century.
The map on page 556 titled "European colonial Empires in the Americas" shows the expansion of all sorts of territories cause by wars and rivalries. (Spanish territory: New Spain, New Grenada & Rio de la Plate/ Portuguese territory: Brazil/ French territory: Louisiana, Quebec, part of Guana/ English territory: New York, Boston, Jamestown/ Dutch territory: part of Guana.)
European empires no doubt had a global significance but there was also a presence of some disease such as smallpox, measles, typhus, influenza, malaria, and later, yellow fever which caused death up to 90% percentage of the Native American population. Many others died of hunger because these people "could not get up to search for food and everyone else was too sick to care for them, so they carved t death in their beds." (pg.559)
Important events: Great Dying
Ice Age: it was a period of unusually cool temperatures that spanned much of the early modern period, most prominently in the North Hemisphere.
Europeans and Africans brought not only their germs but also their plants and animals. With the help of these plants and animals it improved European's way of life and the ranching economies and cowboy cultures of both North and South America possible. In addition, lots of products are being imported and exported that are happening in China.
"Without a New World to deliver economic balance in the Old, Europe would have remained inferior, as ever, in wealth and power, to the great civilizations of Asia."
The Making of a Russian/Chinese/Asian Empire.
Across America there were powerful European empires. Again the early modern age was an age of empire's growth. These empires are mixed with diverse people which represents a new stage of the globalization.
By the mid-eighteenth century, Europeans successfully extended their empires because of their geographical location. They were well positioned for commerce and access to the world. Ones the Americas were discovered; natural resources and productive agricultural lands has helped the long term growth of the European economy between the 19th and 20th century.
The map on page 556 titled "European colonial Empires in the Americas" shows the expansion of all sorts of territories cause by wars and rivalries. (Spanish territory: New Spain, New Grenada & Rio de la Plate/ Portuguese territory: Brazil/ French territory: Louisiana, Quebec, part of Guana/ English territory: New York, Boston, Jamestown/ Dutch territory: part of Guana.)
European empires no doubt had a global significance but there was also a presence of some disease such as smallpox, measles, typhus, influenza, malaria, and later, yellow fever which caused death up to 90% percentage of the Native American population. Many others died of hunger because these people "could not get up to search for food and everyone else was too sick to care for them, so they carved t death in their beds." (pg.559)
Important events: Great Dying
Ice Age: it was a period of unusually cool temperatures that spanned much of the early modern period, most prominently in the North Hemisphere.
Europeans and Africans brought not only their germs but also their plants and animals. With the help of these plants and animals it improved European's way of life and the ranching economies and cowboy cultures of both North and South America possible. In addition, lots of products are being imported and exported that are happening in China.
"Without a New World to deliver economic balance in the Old, Europe would have remained inferior, as ever, in wealth and power, to the great civilizations of Asia."
The Making of a Russian/Chinese/Asian Empire.
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