HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Spice Trade, Philosophes, Physiocracy
2 Jan 2017
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Mobility of cannon: led to the gins canal to be placed on ships. Gunships: allowed spanish and portuguese to establish sea born over seas empires . Thirty years war- standing armies: centralize further and adopt new forms of taxation to pay for war. Eighty years war- mercantilism: mercantilism directly related to eighty years war, dutch vs spanish over control of. Netherlands, independence for dutch, religious tolerance, spice trade: directly related to the development of navy"s - this leads to seven years war. Absolutism: about getting control over taxation and control over army, better able to further aims and levy more taxes, fear that control of army for charles 1. Seven years war-tax burdens- revolutions: english vs french over overseas trade, these global wars very costly to fight which required new taxes, the tax burden on colonists brought on by needs of supplying war directly caused the.
