Empires
Islamic
Safavid
State beucracy run by slaves
Mughal
more religiously tolerant
Ottoman
ALL
used guns and gun power
keen on trade/economic exchange
patrons of arts
More religiously tolerant than Europe
120-130m people
Constantinople
Iberian Colonisation
Columbian exchange
New stage in historical development
1492 journey, using cannon-bearing man-o-war
Everyone following advancements within Europe
70% of the 70 million indigenous people died in 60 years
Of Commerce
Begun Global Interdependence and Chattel slavery
Europe not land based, so more successful
Joint stock companies (East India)
Triangular Trade; innate to capitalism
Of Culture
Pre 1800
rural/agrarian, oral, hereditary
1500-1800
In between, slavery
Pre 1840
America more like Africa
Dynamic
war
Migration
disease
commodities
2nd Stage Colonisation
1600-1800
Transition through seas, oceans and empires
Rise of North Atlantic and Capitalism
Dutch revolt
wealthiest and most urbanised
Human cost
chance of survival 50%
Technologies of
Coal
Metallurgy
Transport and Communication
Weapons
Medicine
Created "large" power, less interdependence
Transforms violence
Migrations
Forced
Indenture labour
Colony Building (Nationalism)
Recruitment
Post WWII
Decolonisation
Power to indigenous
Internal colonisation = slavery
Bandung Conference 1955
Nonaligned movement 1961