HIST 215 Lecture 5: World 1500
10 Aug 2016
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Ming empire was not likely to dominate power. 1661: everybody that lived on the sea shore had to move twenty kilometers away into land and cut relationships with the sea. 1700: the ching empire, muhgal empire, ottomans were important states till the. 1700"s. they had an important claim on being major powers and dominating. Competition and interactions whenever you cut yourself off from this and become autonomous, you allow for the possibility for loosing the competition on a global level institutions don"t develop anymore. Thalassocracy: interest of sea and oceans and controlling them. Bureaurcracy: rise of phenonomena of bureaucracy: organization of power, being more centralized and rational and legal oriented. 1succesful: those who combine thalassocracy and bureaucracy quest for administrative stability, will lead to development or not. 1)mediterranean to atlantic shift: europeans centered around mediterranean then shift. 18th century: sheek to wear shifts as hair-do, very trendy. Dominant force is ottoman empire-terrestrial limits not far from.
