Early+Modern+Period

During the Early Modern Period, the gun manufactoring had a big impact. Many empires were founded on gunpowder which led to dominant political units and sometimes changed the course of history. The image above is a Abus gun created by the Ottoman Turks and their Empire.

**The World Map Changes**


 * new empires started to take over the the smaller ones. new empires formed in and around Asia and Eastern Europe.
 * new trade routes were a big changed also. There was focus on international trade routes and and oceangoing routes.

**Triggers For Change**


 * The revival of Empire buildings ex. Ottoman Turks who then took over Constantinople which was part of the Byzatine Empire
 * The exploration of the European travelers along the Atlantic coast and also Africa.
 * innovative and creative military technology ex compasses gun and gunpowder used during oversea voyages

**The Big Changes**


 * a new global economy; interational trade increased which had the outcome of bring far and distant regions together
 * biological exchanges; since their was now international trade with the Americas the western part of the world benefited from corn and horses
 * new empires; new empires were able to form political unites due to gunnery and gunpowder.

**Continuity**


 * the spread of world religion continued ex Islam and Chirstianity
 * gender relations remained the same
 * outside of miltary technology no new technology was invented

**Impact on Daily Life: Work**


 * Population decrease in places such as the AMericans and Europeans due to smallpox and measles
 * average workers were able to get money from the government due to new distribute of wealth
 * more trade meant more good having to be produced so more strain on workers
 * child labor increased

Causation and the West's Expansion

Questions: -if i had to choose a single determinism as a basic social change it would have to be cultural. within culture there is religion which is a leading factor as to why history is the way that it is. looking at the the religion of Islam and how it overtime it grew into an empire that wielded considerable power. Christianity is a another one and when looking at the other categories like political the religion lead to the "great man" or men theory when thinking of the Holy Roman Emperor and so on. Kevin S. It was technological because looking at the Middle Ages and Dark Ages and socially it was bad but social changed occurred through the fact that new technology allowed for social change and economics and every way of life possible in europe. Ex gunpowder compasses and designs of new ships.
 * 1. If you had to choose a single determinism (cultural, technological, or economics) as a basic to social change. why?**

-i believe the real motive of the Western explorers and colonist is just the exploration of new land and promises. the Americas and other places reflected new land to be conquered, new products to be traded, new people that could assimilate to Christianity or Islam. the "great man" theory could also be a reason. men such as the Henry the Naviagtor and Columbus looked for glory and fame but leading factors. They did live in fear as the sole person who had to take on this responsibility or also they could have been sympathic to those who had to be killed. they were loloking for a happy place because they wanted to see change occur.
 * 2. in what ways might the profressed motives of Western explorers and colonists have difference from their real motives?**

Guns Germs and Steel Notes


 * cultural determinism- since through writing we able to look at history and read the history to gather knowledge of what happened during that time. the conquistadors had the intellect to write and the Incas could now. Cultural ideas could lead to war. Ex since the incas could not read when they deemed the holy bible worthless it launched a chain of events where somebody would conquer and the othe rbe conquered. this would lead to shifts in power.
 * the geography of EuroAsia and the Americas made if difficult for the Americas to spread ideas from the north part to the south part. it was remakrably easiter for the EuroAsia since they would be traveling through the same time zone, climate, and eating the same vegetation