...In the mid-seventeenth century, England, France, and Spain were all competing for colonies and trade routes along the world. While each country had been sending explorers out since the last fifteenth century, it wasn’t until the mid-seventeenth that colonization really started. All three of these countries were trying to become not only the wealthiest but the most powerful as well. And no other place promised as much wealth or power as the New World did. Each of these three countries had the same basic motivation for why they wanted to colonize the New World; expansion, power, and most importantly wealth. The differences came about in where these three countries chose to create colonies, and then how those colonies would be populated and governed. These differences were...
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...In Europe during the colonial time period, there were many factors that drove the sugar trade, such as the increasing demand for sugar, the colonization of the Caribbean Islands, and the rise in slavery. The demand for sugar grew at a high rate as more of it was being produced. The production itself was taking place in the European-colonized Caribbean islands, which had the perfect climate for growing cane sugar. The rise of slavery meant very cheap labor, thus leading to more sugar being produced in less time. The colonization of the Caribbean Islands in Europe supported cane sugar growth, leading to the trading of the cane sugar. The location and the climate of these islands is further talked about in Documents 1 and 2. The British, Spanish, and French had colonized the Caribbean by 1750 (Doc. 1). Because they had this land, they were able to make a profit off of new crops that grew there. Jamaica and Barbados, two of the islands, had ideal climates for the growth of sugar cane (Doc. 2). It helped cane sugar to grow more quickly, which led to more sugar being traded. The running of the sugar plantations is examined in Documents 6 and 7. There were many materials needed in order to run a plantation, including three-hundred slaves, nine different houses, and two-hundred twenty-five animals (Doc. 6). This explains how the overhead costs on the plantation were expensive, and how the fact that slaves cost nothing positively affected that. The sugar plantations require...
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...around the world were being traded, which lead to an increase in quality of life for the European peoples, a greater demand for export and goods to be traded, and it sent the economies of these European nations soaring. The European nations that were the most successful at the time were Holland, Spain and England. Due to the competitive nature of these nations, and their quest to obtain gold and silver (a common international currency at the time), the leaders of said nations looked for ways to utilize their legislative power to maximize profits...
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...changes. Social discrimination against non-Arab converts began to decrease, the translation from Aristotle to Arabic, the founding of important theology and law, and the success of the Abbasid Court took place during this period. 21) The Mamuluks are examples of the problems faced by Abbasid caliphs in ruling a vast empire they provided an effective but expensive military force, dominated Samarra without conflicts from an Baghdad populace, and the Abbasid Caliphate fell due to being contorlled by mountain warriors that were from the province of Daylam in northern Iran. 22) Imam's were significant especially to the Buyid Shi'tites because the twelfth and last divinely stated Imam had disappeared, and would only return at the end of the world as the messiah. Also, they didn't had Shi'ite Imam to defer to and kept the caliph in order to help control their Sunni...
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...Men and women have always been different, each having there own strengths and weaknesses, never the less each gender has played a pivotal role in the development of the world we have today. Even though Gender equality has made huges leaps in progress over human history, it is shown in early civilizations the vast differences in the treatment and expectations of men and women. In this essay three primary source documents will be reviewed and analyzed, to clearly pinpoint the key similarities and differences regarding gender relations. Each source document will be relating to a different civilization at a different time. It is important to note that even in similar historical time frames gender roles ranged greatly from one civilization or empire...
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...Looking back at my Prelim answer, I was wrong with my educated (?) guess of Spain as the center of the world. Though Spain, with their expeditions and through their conquering nature, certainly contributed to the success of the real hub of the world in 1500, they were not the front-runners, China was. I honestly had not thought about any country in Asia when giving my initial answer (perhaps because of the early Euro-centered education I received that we all discussed?). China was the center of the world in 1500 for many reasons: their population tripled, urbanization spiked, and productive capacity boomed. It really boiled down to the fact that all money (mainly silver) was flowing into China while manufactured goods were flowing out. At the...
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...Through out world history we have progressed from hunter and gatherers, small bands of families, to small empires, into a large interconnected world. We have made the world smaller and smaller as we have progressed as a whole. As a great turning point in our history was between 600-1500 C.E. when the world became a much more integrated. This happened though population growth, expansion of territories, and increased trade between civilizations. In this paper I will show how that these three things brought Europe, Asia, and Africa closer together. With the continent of Asia I'm going to focus on the People of the Steppes, the Mongols. It starts with the unifier of the mongols Temujin, he united the different mongol clans becoming Chinggis...
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...which being the negative effects of silver on generally low class people. Document 2 was written by a Spanish scholar to inform merchants of high silver prices in Asia that cause Spain to lose silver to China, resulting in trade imbalance. The scholar, Tomas de Mercado, spotlights the inflation in Spain but is disconcerned with high prices in Asia. In document 5, a Chinese writer’s article to the general public describes the changing economy. After switching from a barter system to a system that focuses on silver coin, the lower classes’ access to goods seems to be more limited. Document 6 focuses on a Spanish priest, de Espinoso, who wishes to inform the Spanish interested in the Caribbean of negative consequences in the colonies of the New World. As a priest, he’s concerned with moral issues...
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...China and Japan Respond to the West Source Analysis Questions Directions: Using the China and Japan Response to Westernization Source Packet, answer the following questions about each of the documents. The first 5 documents are due on Monday 2/8. The second set are due on Friday 2/12. Document 1: Key Information: Opium Wars British East India Company sold Opium China began to loose power Opium is a drug: causes numbness, yellow skin, addiction. Theatrical Poster (advertise): Man lying on cushion and smoking opium. Messy at Opium Joint. Exaggeration of what is really happening. Point of View: Western - American Bias? Who?: Yes. Against Chinese. All Chinese people are high on opium. This poster is about a big problem among some Chinese immigrants in the U.S. in the late 1800s. What is the problem and how does the illustration depict it? The problem that the illustration is trying to convey is that there is and opium problem in the U.S. as well as in China. The Chinese man in the picture is displayed on a cushion using opium. The illustration is attempting to show that Chinese people can be lazy, addicted, unmotivated, weak, east to take over, etc.. Overall, this poster is showing the problem with opium and its effect on the people of China. Document 2: Key Information: Peasant uprisings “Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace” “Taiping Rebellion” 20 million died Point of View West Bias? Who? Yes, against the Chinese. With what phrases in particular does this document best express...
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...lord fiefs. The relationship between lords and Vassals are similar to kings and lords. 5. The church was a very unifying influence because the people wanted to follow the sacraments so they could get into eternal life once they die. The Height of Medieval Civilization Vocab Charters- a written document that guaranteed rights Guilds- a group for merchants or artisans that governed the town Vernacular- everyday language for people Scholasticism-people applying the idea of logic and reasoning being used to support the christian faith Crusade- a military expedition against the enemies of the church Section II review 1. Dante, a poet in Florence wrote a Italian vernacular. Dante wrote the Divine Comedy, which he combined poetry, theology and history. Chaucer, an english poet used vernacular in The Canterbury Tales. Thomas Aquinas, a scholastic used reasoning and logic that could be used to support the Christian faith. 2. Charters- a written document that guaranteed rights Guilds- a group for merchants or artisans that governed the town Vernacular- everyday language for people Scholasticism-people applying the idea of logic and reasoning being used to support the christian faith Crusade- a military expedition against the enemies of the church 3. One of the economical changes that happened during the late middle ages was the guides. The guides were merchants or artisans who governed the town. The became an economic activity because they governed prices, wages and more. Another change...
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...During the mid 16th century to the 18th century, social and economical effects, in regions such as Europe, where trade with the world increased, and Asia, where the people started using silver for payment instead of other goods, became present due to the rise of production and global trade of silver. In the documents by people from the Ming, which are the documents by Ye Chunji [doc 1], Wang Xijue [doc 3], and He Qiacyuan [doc 7] show the changes in the economy of China. In the documents by the people of Spain, which include Tomas de Mercado [doc 2] and Antonio Vásquez de Espinoza [ doc 6] show the differences in the pricings and accepted currencies occurring. In the documents by the British, which are by Ralph Fitch [doc 4], and Charles Avenant [doc 8], show the major changes in world trade....
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...Kawthar Elwaseem DBQ Throughout history geographic features had significantly influenced both the development and growth of early civilizations. One of the main geographic features that had greatly impacted early civilizations was rivers. Rivers such as the Nile, Tigris, and Euphrates, not only resulted in positive affects but also negative. Two such civilizations were Egypt and Mesopotamia. Egypt's early civilization was developed near the Nile river which flows to the Mediterranean sea .The Nile was a positive geographic feature because it helped nourish the cattle’s, brought work, and trade to the people with other civilization which lead to culture diffusion. Another positive part of the Nile would be farming. 8,000 years ago men learned to farm, which provided people with a faster way to get food because farmers were able to use the Nile to water their crops. In addition the Nile flooded once a year causing massive destruction and killing thousands of people and if that wasn’t enough many people later...
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... On the other hand, The Inca Empire was centered in Peru which ruled most of the west coast of South America. They created a society where everyone had a job, a home, and food to eat. The emperor of the Incans was known as the Sapa Inca. Manco Capac was the first Sapa Inca. Later on, the Inca expanded under the reign of Pachacuti having a population over 10 million people. The Spanish captured Incas bringing civil war and disease, such as smallpox that killed most of the Native American population. After the fall of the Aztec and Inca Empires, that’s when Native Americans were forced to convert to Christianity by the members of the Franciscan. Overall, the American Middle Ages ended when Christopher Columbus arrived to discover this New World. Europeans were full of discoveries. During European Middle Ages, New Sciences were introduced creating Salons. In these Salons, women gathered together, who formed a very important part of the European public, to socialize and share their knowledge among one another. Salons were formed because women were not allowed to attend French universities to further their studies. Later on, New Science lead to the discovery of vacuums for condensing steam which then lead to the invention of steam engines. Thomas Newcomen was known for building the first steam engine to draw water from coal mine shafts. These steam engines changed the way people worked by creating new jobs, drawing them to urban centers. New Science did not only led to new inventions...
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...monarchs to show their viewpoint on the situation on foreign affairs, alliances, or the East India Company within the Caribbean. Also, a map of interactions between each region, such as trade or defeat would be helpful instead of the map given for historical background. Alliances against the British with Austria and France, especially the French with the American Indians posed a struggle for Europeans. Also, conflicts involving the Caribbean with the East India Company posed a regional challenge for them as a global power. Furthermore, different foreign affairs were struggles that they had to face as well. Many of these issues were linked to the East India Company and the Seven Years’ War and made it difficult for the Europeans to become a world power in the mid-eighteenth century. ...
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...the same situation. Before, China was ahead of everyone and was perfectly capable of dominance, but Europe managed to gain prominence. This is because China saw themselves as superior and viewed Western goods as inferior. Ultimately, this meant they rejected new technology and ideas causing them to become isolated. No new intellectual breakthroughs and internal disorder caused the Qing dynasty to decay. The emperors grew weak and the economy began to stagnate. In the end, failure to accept new ideas from the West caused China to become inferior. The factors that delayed all these countries were very similar. None of them showed an interest to grow in knowledge and technology except the West. This is why the Europe eventually dominated the world with the scientific and industrial revolution. ...
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