1. Galleons and Caravans
War, Conflict, Slavery

2. War in Europe and Asia The 17thC. was a century of total war Europe
The Ottoman Empire
China
India

3. Military Revolution 4 essential ingredients – Tactics Strategy
army size
overall impact.

4. New battle formations
New architecture for fortifications

7. Key New Technologies Cast-iron cannon Light field artillery galleons
Armed sea-going vessels

9. 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

13. Fiscal crisis
Jack Goldstone’s comparative work on European and Asian political and fiscal crisis in the 17thc
Ecological and demographic change

14. 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.

15. Slavery Inikori – Africa and the Atlantic Basin
Plantation agriculture – Philip Curtin
Brazil and the Caribbean

17. Slave labour force and gang organization
Legacy of slavery and Britain