HIST 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tulip Mania, Dutch East India Company, Constitutionalism
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Agrarian world human civilization based principally on farming and other agriculture activities. The total surplus food from this 90% barely able to sustain the other 10% to specialize in other tasks such as trade, craftwork, martial training, and political administration. This hard limit to the amount of labor involved in agriculture has been in effect for majority of human history since the agrarian revolutions. Gunpowder empires ottoman empire, safavid empire, mughal empire, Built on the use of gunpowder weaponry against rival groups for military conquest and the creation of large empires. Qing dynasty under this dynasty, the agrarian world reached its most sophisticated and advanced level of development. Manchu/manchurian the qing dynasty traces its origins to the manchu peoples from manchuria. As the indigenous ming dynasty began to falter in the early 17th century, manchu"s took advantage of rebellions to take control. After taking control, the manchus proclaimed their dynasty the qing ( pure or.
