1. Crisis of Feudalism in Europe
Black Death – Demographic Crisis
Productivity Crisis
Political Crisis (Rising Taxes)
Rebellions-Revolts-Reformation
Territorial Expansion as a Key to Solve the Crisis
Explorations

2. Columbian Exchange

3. Columbian Exchange Intellectual Effects Economic Effects
Nutritional Effects
Demographic Effecs

4. Worlds Collided Encomienda Aztecs and Cortes (1522)
Incas and Pizzaro (1532)
Silver and Sugar

6. Characteristics of Plantation
Most of the productive labor was forced labor
The population was not self sustaining
Contained feudal elements
Political control lay in another continent and another society
Agricultural enterprise was organized in large scale capitalist plantations 
supply a distant market with a highly specialized product

8. Different Forms of Labor
Serf
Encomienda
Indentured Servitude
Slavery
Wage labor

9. How did Integration Affect Political Systems?
American Silver and the “Price Revolution”
The Rise of Bourgeoisie and The Decline of Nobility
The Fall of Spain and Large Empires
Mercantalism
Foreign Commerce as Source of Prosperity
The Interdependence of Merchants and States
No competition is allowed

10. New Colonizers (The Dutch, The British, and The French)
The Dutch as World Hegemony in the 17th Century
France’s Fur Trading Empire
England’s Landed Empire
Indentured Servitude
Tobacco

11. The Enlightenment
The application of the Scientific revolution to the study of human society
Copernicus (Solar System)
Newton (Law of Gravity)
The World is a knowable object, laws governing the universe
Social Contract
Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, Jean Jacques Rousseau
Hostile to the Nobility

12. The American Revolution 1775-1800

14. Mercantalism and the British Empire
Foreign Commerce as Source of Prosperity
The Interdependence of Merchants and States
No competition is allowed

15. Growing Tension between Britain and the Colony
Seven Years’ War
Financing the War
New Taxes in the Colony (Sugar Act 1764, Stamp Act 1765, etc.)
No Taxation without Representation
“Boston Massacre” 1770
“Boston Tea Party ” 1774

16. The Course of Revolution
Revolution Begins 1775
The Continental Congress 1775
George Washington, Thomas Paine (Common Sense), and John Locke
The Declaration of Independence, 4 July 1776

17. “That all men are created are created equal; that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; that, to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

18. The Revolution Ends Treaty of Paris 1783
Britain Recognizes the New American Nation
The new constitution reflected the Enlightenment ideas of Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau.

19. North America After the Treaty of Paris, 1783

20. The United States in 1787

21. The framers of the Constitution saw government in terms of a social contract. Elected legislature and an elected president.
The Constitution created a federal republic, with power divided between the federal government and the states.
The federal government was separated among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches. Each branch was provided with checks and balances on the other branches.
The Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, recognized that people had basic rights that the government must protect.

22. Equality for All? Women? Slaves?
Full legal and political rights were granted only to men of property

23. Worldwide Influence Revolutions Followed on Both Sides of the Atlantic
The French Revolution in 1789 as the First Anti-Monarchical Revolution
The Haitian Revolution ( ) as the First Slave Revolution.
Latin American Wars of Independence

24. The French Revolution Three Estates and Fiscal Crisis
Clergy
Nobility
Commoners
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The Terror and Robespierre ( )
Napoleon’s Empire

25. Revolution in Saint Domingue (Haiti)
Saint Domingue Society
White French Settlers
Gens de Couleur
Slaves
Slave Revolt
Toussaint L’Ouverture ( )
Independence (1803) and the Republic of Haiti (1804)
The Abolition of Slavery in The Atlantic Worlld

26. Industrial Revolution
Causes
Population Growth
Agricultural Developments (Enclosure)
Technology and Innovation
Why England?
Capital
The State
Transportation

30. First Phase: Textile (1760s-1830s)
Second Phase: Iron, Steel and Heavy Industry (1830s +)
Organization of Production
Division of Industrial Population into Capitalist employers and workers
Production in Factory
Domination of all aspects of life by the capitalists’ pursuit of profit

31. Industrial Revolution: The Human Results
England: Workshop of the World
At what cost? Who benefited most?
Aristocracy?
Bourgeoisie?
Working Class?
Conditions of Labor

32. World as the Market
Industrialization and the non-Industrialized World
International Division of Labor

33. How Imperialism Functioned: Six Regions
Middle East
South Asia (India)
China
Africa
Latin America
Indian and Pacific Ocean (Indonesia, Philippines, etc.)

34. Imperialism by Free Trade (1820s-1870s)
Colonialism or Direct Domination ( )

35. The Middle East The Middle East in World Economy
Capitulations
Ottoman Empire and the Eastern Question
Egypt and Suez Canal (1869)

36. India Under British Rule
Company Rule (East India Company) s – 1857
Sepoy Rebellion (1857)
British Imperial Rule ( )

37. China: The Central Kingdom
The Perils of Superiority
“One way or another”: Opium
The Opium War ( )
The Treaty of Nanking – 1842
Taiping Rebellion ( )
Carving China: Open Door Policy

38. Africa Abolition of Slave Trade and its Effects
Africa in World Economy
The Berlin Conference ( )
The Scramble for Africa

40. New Imperial Powers: US and Japan
US in Latin America and the Pacific
Monroe Doctrine (1823)
Imperial Japan
The Sino-Japanese War ( )
The Russo-Japanese War ( )