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SECTION  1:  LECTURE  OUTLINES

SECTION 1 
POWERPOINT OUTLINES
 
CIVILIZATION  REVIEW:
15th & 16th Centuries
 
15th AND 16th CENTURIES:
  • Renaissance—Printing Press
  • Reformation and Religious Wars
  • Age of Exploration and European World Empire
  • Islamic World—Western & Eastern
  • Asian Thought—Confucianism & Buddhism
  • East Asia—Korea & Vietnam
  • East Asia—Japan
  • East Asia—China
 
CHINESE EMPIRE:
  • 2100 BC:  Founding of Chinese Empire
  • Cyclical History—Dynasties
  • Important Dynasties:
  • Sui (589-618)
  • Tang (618-907)
  • Song (960-1279)
  • Yuan (1279-1368)—Mongols
 
 
CHAPTER 18—EAST ASIA LATE TRADITIONAL ERA
 
CHINA:
  • Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) & Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)
 
MING DYNASTY, 1368-1644:
  • Rise of the Ming—Stability
  • Growth of Ming Power
  • Emperor Hongwu (r. 1368-1398)
  • Threats to Ming—Mongols, Japanese, Manchus
  • Contacts w/Europeans—16th Century Economy
  • Economic Downfall of the Ming
 
QING DYNASTY, 1644-1911:
  • Rise of the Qing (Manchu) Dynasty
  • Qing Culture/Identity
  • Qing Rule in China—Kangxi (r. 1662-1723)
  • Expansion—Qianlong (r. 1736-1799)
  • Contact & Relations w/Europeans--Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689)
  • Influence of China on the West
 
JAPAN:
 
TOKUGAWA JAPAN:
  • Historical Trends--Warring States Era (1467-1600) & Tokugawa Era (1600-1868)
  • Political Centralization--Nobunaga, Hidyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu
  • The Tokugawa Shogunate—Centralization of Authority
  • Relations w/Europeans—Expulsion of the Europeans (1637)—Isolation
  • Economic & Social Life
  • Legacy of the Tokugawa
 
KOREA & VIETNAM:
  • Influenced by Chinese Learning
  • Saw Selves as Different
  • Korea & Choson Dynasty (1392-1910)
  • Decline of Choson Korea
  • Vietnam—Dynasties; Ly (1002-1225); Tran (1225-1400); Le (1428-1787); Nguyen (1802-1880s)
 
 
 
CHAPTER 19—STATE BUILDING, SOCIETY AND THE RISE OF CONSTITUTIONALISM & ABSOLUTISM IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE
1600-1740
 
NATURE OF EUROPEAN COUNTRIES:
  • Period of Transition in Europe—Political, Social and Economic
  • Emergence of Influential States: England, France, Russia, Austria and Prussia
 
DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL MODELS:
  • England:  Parliamentary Monarchy (Constitutional Monarchy)
  • France:  Absolutism (Absolute Monarchy)
 
CONTRIBUTING FACTORS:
  • Religious
  • General Assemblies
  • Foreign Affairs
  • Personalities
  • Nobility
 
ENGLAND:
  • James I (r. 1603-1625) & Charles I (1625-1649)
  • English Civil War & Oliver Cromwell 1642-1651—English Republic 1651-1660
  • Restoration & Charles II (r. 1660-1685)
  • James II (r. 1685-1688)
  • “Glorious Revolution” 1688
  • William and Mary
 
ENGLAND (GREAT BRITAIN/U.K.):
  • George I (Hannover)
  • Issues George Faced
  • Robert Walpole—Tenure: “Let Sleeping Dogs Lie.”
  • England (Great Britain) as a Parliamentary Monarchy
 
FRANCE AND ABSOLUTISM:
  • Absolutism
  • Louis XIII (r. 1610-1643), Cardinal Richelieu & French Policy
  • Louis XIV (r. 1643-1715)
  • Domestic Policy—Edict of Nantes
  • Foreign Policy—Aggressive
  • Reign of Louis XV (r. 1715-1774)/Regency of Duke of Orleans—John Law
 
RUSSIA:
  • Peter the Great
  • Westernization of Russia
  • Centralization—Breaking Power of Streltsy & Boyars (Nobility)
  • Foreign Policy—St. Petersburg
  • Russia after Peter the Great
 
AUSTRIA/HABSBURGS:
  • Problems w/Empire:  Multi-National, Czech & Hungarian (Magyar) Nobility
  • Charles VI (r. 1711-1740), Maria Theresa & “Pragmatic Sanction”
 
(BRANDENBURG)-PRUSSIA:
  • Frederick William “The Great Elector” (r. 1640-1688)
  • King Frederick I (r. 1688-1713)—Kingdom of Prussia
  • King Frederick William I (1713-1740)
  • Military
 
LOUIS XIV & 18th CENTURY WARS:
WARS OF LOUIS XIV:
  • War of Devolution (1667-68)
  • War of the League of Augsburg (1688-97)
  • War of Spanish Succession (1701-13)
 
18th CENTURY WARS:
  • Nature of Wars:  Dynastic & Commercial/Colonial
  • Louis XIV Wars:
  • War of Jenkins’ Ear:  GB & Spain (1739-1748)
  • War of Austrian Succession:  Prus/Fra & Aus (1740-1748)
  • Diplomatic Rearrangement—1755-1756
  • Seven Years’ War:  GB/Prus & Fra/Aus/Rus ([1754] 1756-1763)
 
THE “OLD REGIME”:
  • Way of Life in 18th Century—Social, Political, Economic
  • Orders/Institutions
  • Rural Society: Nobility/Peasantry & Serfs
  • Family Economy
  • Peasant Rebellions
 
CHALLENGES TO THE OLD REGIME:
  • 18th Century Agricultural Revolution
  • Enclosure Movement—“Scientific Farming”
      1.  Jethro Tull (1674-1741)
      2.  Charles “Turnip” Townsend (1674-1738)
      3.  Robert Bakewell (1725-1795)
  • Consequences/Rise of Capitalistic Farming
  • Urban Developments
  • Cities/Population Increase
  • Urban Society: Nobility, Bourgeoisie, Shop-keeper/Artisans, Poor—Guilds
  • Health and Sanitation
  • Pre-Industrial Developments
  • “Proto-Industry” (Domestic/Putting Out System)
  • Transportation Improvements
  • Commercial/Consumption Revolution
 
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION:
  • IR:  Shift from Cottage Industry to Workshop to Factory Industry
  • Origins in England
  • Industries:  Cotton Textiles, Iron, Steam Engine
  • Consequences of IR on Society
 
 
 
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