Social Organizational Patterns, The Arts, and Religion

Global Trade and Interaction

Asian trade was focused in Asia and the Indian OceanSilver from the Americas created the GLOBAL

ECONOMYMercantilism- Exporting more goods than importing,

while holding on to gold and silverJoint-Stock Company- a business entity which is owned

by shareholders. Each shareholder owns the portion of the company in proportion to his or her ownership of the company's shares (certificates of ownership).

Examples of Joint-Stock Companies

The Virginia CompanyDutch East India CompanyMuscovy Company (Russia)British East India Company

Columbian Exchange (Quick Review)

American foods became staple crops in various parts of Europe. Grown on plantations through coerced labor. Examples: potatoes, maize, manioc (cassava, roots and tapioca)

Cash crops: sugar, tobaccoDomesticated animals brought to the Americas: horses,

cattle, pigsThe Afro-Eurasian populations benefited from the

American food cropsAffected the Americas through soil depletion and

deforestation in order to clear fields for crops to grow

New Religions

Vodun in the Caribbean- Vodun centers around the vodun spirits and other elements of divine essence that govern the Earth, VOODOO.

The cults of saints in Latin America- Some of these colonial saints were eventually canonized by the Church, others never achieved official status, even though they became the object of a cult following

Sikhism in South Asia- a monotheistic religion founded during the 15th century in the Punjab region, by Guru Nanak and engage in social reform through the pursuit of justice for all human beings

Coerced Labor

Chattel slavery- treated as personal property (bought and sold)

Indentured Servants- Contract to work (usually seven years) for their passage to the new world

EncomiendaHaciendaMita

The New Elites

The Manchus of China- reunified Jurchen tribes, established a military system called "Eight Banners.” Started by Nurhaci and were in power after the Ming dynasty collapsed.

Creole elitesEuropean GentryUrban commercial entrepreneurs in all major port cities

throughout the world

The Old Elites

The Zamindars in the Mughal Empire- an aristocrat, typically hereditary, who held enormous tracts of land and held control over his peasants.

The nobility of EuropeThe daimyo in Japan- the term daimyo came to be applied

to those military lords who began exercising territorial control (and later proprietary rights) over the various private estates into which the country had become divided.