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