East Asia in the Early Modern

World:
Continuity or Change?
AP World History
Richard Smart
Oakland Mills High School
Period 3: 1450 – 1750
The Great Global Convergence
Columbian
Exchange:
Diseases
Food Crops
Animals
Population changes

Creation of the Empire Building:

Atlantic World: European in America
European Empires Russian Empire
Triangular Trade Gunpowder Empires
Slavery
Period 3, 1450 – 1750:
Ma jor C ompa ri sons a nd An alyses
 Compare colonial administrations
 Compare coercive labor systems: slavery and other
coercive labor systems in the Americas
 Analyze the development of empire (i.e., general empire
building in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas)
 Analyze imperial systems: a European seaborne empire
compared with a land-based Asian empire
 Compare Russia's interaction with two of the following
(Ottoman Empire, China, western Europe, and eastern
Europe)
 Compare Mesoamerican and Andean systems of
economic exchange
 The next…
Continuity and Change over Time Essay.
Analyze the continuities and changes in Russia’s
interaction with TWO of the following
regions/Empires between 1250 and 1800.

Reasons for
Ottoman Empire processes

Western Europe
Eastern Europe From… to…
China Global context
Different Approaches to different
Western Europe
•Isolation regions:
•Ivan IV & Britain
•Peter the Great Eastern Europe
•Catherine the Great •Orthodox Christianity
•Enlightenment •Novgorod Republic
•Prussia & Austria •Catherine the Great
•Poland

Ottoman Empire
•Ivan IV & Khanates
•1453 Constantinople
•Peter the Great China
•Catherine the Great •Expansion 1600s
•Crimea •Cossacks
•Russo-Turkish Wars •Peace 1689
 Didn’t you forget about East Asia?
Centralization in Politics:
 Ming & Qing China
 Tokugawa Japan

Cultural Consolidations
 Restrictions on foreign
interactions
 Removal of Jesuits
 Importance of Confucianism

Economic Growth
 Columbian Exchange
 Increased power for merchants &
artisans
 Calendar for the week…
 Tuesday:
 China (women?)
 Wednesday:
 Japan (Shinto?)
 Thursday:
 Multiple Choice practice
 Academic Pep Rally
 Friday:
 No school
 Rajani, Rebecca G, Noah, &
Camille to post.