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In 1400 renaissance, rebirth and Greek humanism: Refocusing on human world experience opposed to spiritual experience. Looking for market especially in the Indian Ocean Found a new world looking for new routes but it was hard to get there because of some religious conflict They need sea route not land routes Indian Ocean Trade: They developed three models, 1: Portugal: Trading post Empire Effectively found merchants that already active offered them protection money 2: Spain and Philipines: because it is close to China and Indian Ocean, it will be easy to participate in trade Their method taking land outright. It was so easy for Spain to take Philippines. There is no central government-islands self governing There is no conflict between those islands- no strong utility attraction They have some products- harvesting spices 3: The Companies Model: Britain the government does not have to take land from people It is valuable model

Europeans Empires in the Americas: In the early sixteenth century Spanish turned to the mainland, with stunning conquests of the powerful but fragile aztec and Inca empires In the seventeenth century, the British, French, and Dutch launched colonial settlements along the eastern coast of North America By the mid eighteenth century, encompass most of the Americas, at least nominally. The European Advantages: 1. Because of the location and climate , they provided a far different maritime environment 2. Europeans penetrate the Atlantic Ocean 3.They can access the world 4. They can cross the Atlantic with growing ease 5. Their ironworking technology 6. Europeans have a lot of disease The Great Dying: It is when the Europeans came to the Americas with their diseases that were foreign to the Native Americans, causing them to die rather rapidly. South America affected most because 95% of them died

The Initial signs or Makers of the Modern World: 1. The beginnings of genuine globalization. 2. Elements of distinctly modern societies. 3. Growing European presence in world affairs. - The Atlantic slave trade linked Africa permanently to the Western Hemisphere, the global silver trade allowed Europeans to use new world precious metals to buy their way into ancient Asian trade routes. - The Columbian exchange is known to historians as the massive transfer of planets, animals, diseases, and people. It created networks of interaction across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. - The most obviously modern cultural development is in Europe. - Economies centered in large cities . - In the 18th century, Japan was one of the most urbanized societies in the world, Tokyo was the world's largest city. A Late Agrarian Era: - Europeans rules the Americas and controlled the world's sea routes. - 18th century China and Japan controlled the European missionaries and merchants. - ...

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