1. Main Periods 1250-1350Pre-modern World System 1350-1450Feudal Crisis 1450-1650Beginnings of the Modern World System 1750-1850The Age of Revolution 1850-1873Victorian Expansion 1873-1914The Age of Empire

2. The Age of Empire 1876-1914 The Great Depression Responses La Belle Époque

3. The Great Depression of the Nineteenth Century 1873-1896 Decline in profitability –Decline in prices faster than decline in wages Speculation –Big international financial firms Crash

5. The Great Depression of the Nineteenth Century 1873-1896 Decline in profitability –Decline in prices faster than decline in wages Speculation –Big international financial firms Crash

6. Responses to crisis Migration Protection Growth in firm size Imperialism

7. Migration Ellis Island

8. Migration

9. Railroad construction, west coast

10. Responses to crisis Migration Protection (Growing role of the state) Growth in firm size Imperialism

11. Carnegie Steel, Homestead, PA (1890s)

12. IMPERIALISM

13. Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and Sultan Abdulhamid II, Ottoman Empire

14. Berlin Conference (1884-1885)

16. King Leopold II, Belgium

17. King Leopold’s Victims

20. British in Egypt, 1882 Urabi Pasha Bombing Alexandria

21. British in Egypt, 1882