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ASIA AND THE WORLD (1450-1800)
• OTTOMAN (1299-1922)
• RUSSIAN (1533-1917)
• SAFAVID-IRAN (1521-1722),
• MUGHAL-INDIA (1526-1858),
• QING –CHINA (1644-1911
STRONG EMPIRES
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 McCartney
(1792)
Lord George Macartney in China (1792)
Emperor Qianlong
WORLD ECONOMIES COMPARED 1500-1775
1450-1650 Europe Middle East Asia Transformation
Econ. Polit. Ottoman Portug. Empire Dutch in
SEA
End of feudal relations, StateExpansion
1450-1650-1750
Europe Middle East Asia
To America -Ottoman Empire Ming
Africa, Asia -Persian Empire to Qing
Absolutism Portug, Mercantilism Dutch
in SEA
Mughal
The Age of Revolution (1750-1850)
• Economy (Industrial Revolution)
• Politics (American, French Revolutions; Revolutions of 1848)
• Science (Enlightenment)