Unit Four L
Connecting Hemispheres the First Global Age
(1450CE - 1750 CE)
During this first global age, the Ming, Ottoman, and Mughal empires experienced cultural renaissances that paralleled the earlier European Renaissance. A complex global economy arose that shaped today’s modern world. During this time period the economic and cultural interactions among the peoples of Afro-Eurasia expanded rapidly. Global urbanization intensified. Nations responded to the absolutism of Akbar, Suleiman the Magnificent, Peter the Great, Louis XIV, and Philip II in a variety of ways. In some instances, demands for internal reform occurred and in other instances those absolute rulers were seen by their neighbors as threats. Social and political institutions emerged in Europe that became the foundation of the American political system. The power and influence of European nations expanded well beyond the boundaries of their region.
The Age of Revolution represents an era that unleashed global forces that continue to play themselves out in the 21st century. It is an epoch of “-isms”: nationalism; industrialism, mercantilism, capitalism, liberalism, socialism, communism, imperialism, and colonialism. It reflected an age of political revolutions and reaction against revolutionary ideas. It was a period of economic and social revolutions, which was marked by dramatic changes in the structure of social classes and changes in the traditional roles of men, women and children. It heralded the modern age and raised a series of essential questions.
Guided Notes / Hand Outs / Printable Materials
Focus Questions Exploration/ Expansion & Religions
Focus Questions Renaissance and Reformation
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Focus Questions Absolutism
Focus Question Scientific Revolution
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Vocabulary Aztec/ Inca/ Maya
Amerindian
matriarchy Mayan calendar Aztec calendar Aztec sacrificial offerings causeway codex non-sedentary settlements demographic data endemic patriarchy quipu semi-sedentary glyph sedentary settlements immunized codex MesoAmerican Afroeurasia Vocabulary Age of Exploration, Expansion & ReligionsAge of Exploration
infidels anti-Semitism Inquisition astrolabe magnetic compass caravel Moors cartography Reconquista conversos Sephardim diaspora sextant Dutch East India Company tolerance exile Age of Exploration joint-stock-company Atahualpa mercantilism capitalism mestizo Columbian Exchange Middle Passage Commercial Revolution conquistador circumnavigation Cuzco plantation economy racism encomienda smallpox Encounter supply and demand favorable balance of trade gold, glory, and God Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade immunity Treaty of Tordesillas inflation triangular trade viceroy Brazilian middle passage Vocabulary Renaissance & Reformation
monarchs
national boundaries canon Law capitalists nationalism cavalry nobles consolidated power taxes vassals gunpowder witches longbows humanism secularism Protestant Reformation calvinism Jesuits Inquisition reconquista Florence Anglican Ninety-Five Theses Anglican Church Northern Renaissance Anti-Semitism predestination Baroque printing press Catholic Counter Reformation (Catholic Reformation) Protestant Reformation Council of Trent excommunication interdict humanism indulgence secularism theocracy Lutheran Church tithe missionary nationalism Vocabulary Absolutism
absolute monarchs
junker class Bourbon Monarchy partitions of Poland boyar class policy of westernization centralized government decentralized government royal absolutism czar skepticism divine right theory constitutional monarchy Lord Protector English Bill of Rights Petition of Rights Glorious Revolution Puritan Revolution (English Civil War) limited monarchy Vocabulary Scientific Revolutionastronomers
mathematicians geocentric theory scientific theories heliocentric theory theologians law of gravity superstitions observations |