First Class History 101

CHAPTER 15 I.  Introduction    1.  "More than 60 percent of the world's professing Christians now live outside Europe and North America, and, within the United States, one in six catholic diocesan priests and one in three seminary students are foreign born" (Strayer, 643).    2.  Early modern era gave birth to cultural trends that continue in the 21st century  a. Spread of Christianity to Asians, Africans, and Native Americans  b. Emergence of modern scientific outlook - challenged Western Christianity    3. Science was a new and competeing world view and achieved acceptance greater than Christianity    4. Asian, African, and Native American peoples determined how Christianity would be rejected, accepted, or transformed.  a. Hinduism in S. Asia, Buddism in E. Asia, smaller scale religious traditions in Africa, Islam was expanding II. The Globalization of Christianity    1. Christendom stretched...

CHAPTER 14 Economic Transformations: Commerce and Consequence 1450-1750 I.  Introduction   1.  Slaves went from coast of Ghana in W. Africa to America   2.  International networks of exchang shaped human interactions 1450-1750  a.  Europeans a part of spice trade in Indian Ocean -> new relationships with Asian   societies  b.  Silver from Spanish America made it's way to China   1.  Europeans traded with Asians better   2.  Europe was enriched  c.  Fur from N. America and Siberia found markets in Europe and China   1.  Hunting transformed animal environments and human societies  d.  SE Asians, Chinese, Indians, Armenians, Arabs, Africans, and Native Americans shaped   word economy in modern era as well.   3.  "New World" emerged   a.  Disrupted old patterns and made new relationships  b.  Brought people into contact wit...

Chapter 13 Political Transformations Empires and Encounters 1450-1750 I.  Introduction      1.  "Memories of these earlier empires continue to shape understanding of current events and perhaps to inspire actions in present as well" (Strayer, 553).  a. Putin seizes Crimea and pressures Ukraine to stay Russian  b.  Economic/political ressurgence of Turkey refered to as rebuilding the Ottoman Empire.      2.  "Within those imperial systems, vast transformations took place: old societies were destroyed, and new societies arose as Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans came into sustained contact with one another for the first time in world history.  It was a revolutionary encounter with implications that extended far beyond the Americas themselves" (Strayer, 553-554).      3.  Expanse of Siberia (Russia constructed world's largest territorial empire), Qing dynasty penetrated deep into Asi...

I.  The Early Modern World 1450-1750      A.  The Big Picture: Debating the Character of an Era            1.  Historians summarize period of time such as age of empires or age of First Civilization, but                 it leaves a lot out.      B.  An Early Modern Era?            1.  Early Modern Era - genuine globalization, elements of modern society, growing European                   presence in world affairs.            2.  European conquest, explorations, and colonial settlement in Americas.  Atlantic slave trade                 linked Africa permanently to the W. Hemisphere, global silver trade allowed Europeans to                   buy Asian trade routes,...

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