HIST1087 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Danish East India Company, Southeast Asia, East India Company
Document Summary
Post mongol empires spread of mughal and safavid empires, turbo-persian culture gunpowder weapons they peak, dynamism and leadership enter into a slow interlinked declined falling in the 18th century. Ming ching transition expansion of russian and ching chinese empires in 17th century squeezing out other powers and creating vast imperial blocs economic possibilities of the new global age. Japan and korea state centralization, powerful militaries, strong urban bureaucracies. East asia, precursors to burma, etc. general story in emp of state centralization development of new systems of governance, geographically extensive empires with integrated economies laying foundation of many of today"s states today"s story is more complicate. Maritime asia vague concept - all of the island o the coast of asia. Voc capital is island of java, demographic and political center of maritime asia where dutch capital and major rivals are the dutch are.
