SOCI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Bourgeoisie, Readwrite, Orthodox Marxism
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How this shift happened? (what events rose up & when did they rise up that created shift from pre-modern to modern way of thinking (developing, creating consciousness, ideology, etc. ) Immanuel wallerstein (1974) the modern world system: proposed in work that there were a period of history in which set the stage for modern world - calls it the long 16th century (1450-1640) 190 years. Identify/classify major historical event, technological developments, intellectual currents that occurred during period of long 16th century: focuses on europe. What happened during 1450 - 1640: columbus 1492 - sailed to find spice islands, ottoman turks took over constantinople - stopped europe from getting access to. Silk road: byzantines conquered, overland trade routes cut off, da gama (1493?) Pizarro conquered inca: why was it so easy, technological advantage, pandemic - small pox, influenza, bubonic plague - had no resistance; agriculture came later to americas, by 1600 - indigenous people declined by 95%
