HIST 152 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Scientific Revolution, The Foundations, Triangular Trade
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Columbus: what defines the modern period (1500-present, 1500- Protestant reformation: 1517, political change, social change, economic change, questioning religious truths, war, unsettling feeling; 1648: peace of westphalia (foundations of modern nation- state), ends 30 years war, the first world war, most destructive war, everyone is a part of, last major religious conflict in england, how people dealt with the upheaval of. Martin luther, church plays less important role in political change, religion is personal, crystalizing moment in. Europe: european expansion abroad and economic transformation, european identities and mentalities. Find out that other cultures are far ahead of them. Egypt, holy land: conquest and exploitation (potos ) Start of more assertive, more aggressive, wanderlust, interested in taking over the world. Massive empires, wipe out indigenous populations, slave economies. Development of commerce, first stock market, early 17th century by dutch. English follow suit in late 17th century. Triangular trade: commercial and agricultural revolutions and the onset of.
