ASIA AND THE WORLD 1450 1800 STRONG EMPIRES
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ASIA AND THE WORLD (1450 -1800)
STRONG EMPIRES • OTTOMAN (12991922) • RUSSIAN (15331917) • SAFAVID-IRAN (1521 -1722), • MUGHAL-INDIA (1526 -1858), • QING –CHINA (1644 -1911
EUROPEAN TRADE AND THE DRAIN OF BULLION European Attempts to reverse the drain: Portuguese (Goa, Macao, Melaka) Dutch in Southeast Asia
Mughal Empire and the British in India • MADRAS (1639), BOMBAY (1661), CALCUTTA (1690) • BATTLE OF THE PLASSEY (1757)
Battle of the Plassey: Clive meets the Mughal Commander Lord Robert Clive
BRITISH COLONIAL RULE IN INDIA-PHASE I (1757 -1858) TOOLS • Bureaucracy • Law • Colonial Tax GOALS • Make India pay for its administration • Find something that can be sold in India – Undermining Indian Textiles • Barred from markets controlled by the British • Import of British manufactures duty free • Conversion of fields from food to cash crops • Use India to enter China
From Ming to Qing (1644 -1911)
BRITISH EXPEDITIONS TO CHINA • Commodore Anson (1741) • James Flint (1759) • George Mc. Cartney (1792)
Lord George Macartney in China (1792)
Emperor Qianlong
WORLD ECONOMIES COMPARED 1500 -1775
1450 -1650 Europe Asia Middle East Transformation Econ. Polit. End of feudal relations, Expansion State Ottoman Empire Portug. Dutch in SEA
1450 -1650 -1750 Europe To America Africa, Asia Absolutism Mercantilism Middle East Asia -Ottoman Empire -Persian Empire Ming to Qing Portug, Dutch in SEA Mughal
The Age of Revolution (1750 -1850) • Economy (Industrial Revolution) • Politics (American, French Revolutions; Revolutions of 1848) • Science (Enlightenment)