ASIA AND THE WORLD ( )
OTTOMAN ( ) RUSSIAN ( ) SAFAVID-IRAN ( ), MUGHAL-INDIA ( ), QING –CHINA ( STRONG EMPIRES
EUROPEAN TRADE AND THE DRAIN OF BULLION European Attempts to reverse the drain: Portuguese (Goa, Macao, Melaka) Dutch in Southeast Asia
Mughal Empire and the British in India MADRAS (1639), BOMBAY (1661), CALCUTTA (1690) BATTLE OF THE PLASSEY (1757)
Battle of the Plassey: Clive meets the Mughal Commander Lord Robert Clive
BRITISH COLONIAL RULE IN INDIA-PHASE I ( ) TOOLS Bureaucracy Law Colonial Tax GOALS Make India pay for its administration Find something that can be sold in India –Undermining Indian Textiles Barred from markets controlled by the British Import of British manufactures duty free Conversion of fields from food to cash crops Use India to enter China
From Ming to Qing ( )
BRITISH EXPEDITIONS TO CHINA Commodore Anson (1741) James Flint (1759) George McCartney (1792)
Lord George Macartney in China (1792)
Emperor Qianlong
WORLD ECONOMIES COMPARED
Europe Middle East Asia Transformation Econ.Polit. Ottoman Portug. Empire Dutch in SEA End of feudal relations, State Expansion
Europe Middle East Asia To America -Ottoman Empire Ming Africa, Asia -Persian Empire to Qing Absolutism Portug, Mercantilism Dutch in SEA Mughal
The Age of Revolution ( ) Economy (Industrial Revolution) Politics (American, French Revolutions; Revolutions of 1848) Science (Enlightenment)