Galleons and Caravans War, Conflict, Slavery
War in Europe and Asia The 17thC. was a century of total war Europe The Ottoman Empire China India
Military Revolution 4 essential ingredients – Tactics Strategy army size overall impact.
New battle formations New architecture for fortifications
Key New Technologies Cast-iron cannon Light field artillery galleons Armed sea-going vessels
Asia and firearms China – gunpowder from the 10th C. – use in battle from the 14thC. Gun founding and the Jesuits Japan and Portuguese firearms Tokugawa and gun culture Fleets of Zheng He, but no man of war
Fiscal crisis Jack Goldstone’s comparative work on European and Asian political and fiscal crisis in the 17thc Ecological and demographic change
Internal Conflict Ottoman Empire – janissary revolts; China - banditry and factions failing to mobilize together against the Manchus; England – religious conflict and gentry factions, then Civil War.
Slavery Inikori – Africa and the Atlantic Basin Plantation agriculture – Philip Curtin Brazil and the Caribbean
Slave labour force and gang organization Legacy of slavery and Britain http://www.ucl.ac.uk/lbs