PPT-Chapter 33: The Building of Global Empires

AP World History Kimberly Zerbst The Good Stuff essential knowledge Justification for Imperialism DirectIndirect Rule New patterns of global trade Single resourcing Gold and diamonds in S Africa. We start with a simple proposition If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and valueconscious consumers a whole new world of opportunity will open up Four billion p H.G. Wells. India. Empires played a less prominent role in India. In the Indus River valley flourished the largest of the First Civilizations (The cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro – urban planning). Chapter 21: Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World. Chapter 22: The Early Industrial Revolution. Chapter 23: Nation Building and the Economic Transformations in the Americas. Chapter 24: Africa, India, and the New British Empire. THE . EARLY MODERN PERIOD, . (1450-1750). “THE . WORLD . SHRINKS”. The World Map Changes. Several . European countries acquire . OVERSEAS EMPIRES. New . LAND BASED EMPIRES emerge . in Asia and eastern Europe. Chapter 33. Foundations of Empire. By the mid 1800s Europeans began to speak of Imperialism. Domination of European powers over subject lands in the larger world. This domination came in different ways:. Overview lecture. The main theme of the course:. global connections. What are global connections. ?. where . do you see . them?. how . do they change in time and space. ?. How . were they created. ?. Land Empires. Control of huge lands & people. Requires large military investment. Vulnerable to land & sea routes. Requires massive infrastructure investment. Superior technology used to suppress natives. Formation of the Islamic Empires. (Ottoman, . Safavid. , Mughal). The Ottoman Empire. Osman & . Ottoman Expansion. Mehmed. the Conqueror. Suleyman. the Magnificent. Founder of dynasty. 1289-1923. ©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.. *. The Islamic Empires, 1500-1800. ©2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.. *. The Ottoman Empire (1289-1923). Osman leads bands of semi-nomadic Turks to become . Intro: Formation of the Islamic Empires. 3 empires divided up Dar al-Islam. All began as warrior principalities in frontier areas, expanded, developed administrative and military techniques. The Ottoman Empire. The . Achaemenid. Empire. Indo-European migrants to Persia (Iran) – subject to Mesopotamian empires. Pastoral, limited agriculture. Clan-based. Militarily strong – horse-riding archers . The . Achaemenid. An empire formed by outside conquerors who unified regions largely based on the mastery of firearms. . What were the effects of the trade and spread of gunpowder and firearms?. Growth of large empires. What enabled Europeans to carve out huge empires an ocean away from their homelands?. Europeans were much closer to the Americas than were their potential Asian competitors. . Groups within European society—including competing monarchs, merchants, impoverished nobles and commoners, Christian missionaries, and persecuted minorities—all had strong, if different, motivations for participating in empire building.. Motives for Imperialism. In the late 1800s, Western countries wished to join Britain in building overseas empires. Imperialism. (the domination by one country of the political, economic, or cultural life of another country or region).