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Unit IV
THE FIRST GLOBAL AGE
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China – Ming Dynasty
• Concept of Middle Kingdom/relations with others: ISOLATIONISTS
• Zheng He – 7 Voyages: visited SE Asia, India, Middle East & East Africa; when he returned to China they decided to be isolationists (NO need for foreign goods or influence)
• ETHNOCENTRISM – feeling of superiority
• Relations w/ the West: little to no contact
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• Kowtow: a ceremony used in China which would allow a foreign country to trade with them – many refused to “bow down”
• Confucianism: encouraged self-sufficiency which promoted isolationism
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Magellan: travels around the world
• Circumnavigates the globe
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Incas
• Early form of socialism
• Built 1,500 mi of roads => *are compared with the Roman Empire
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• Mercantilism: the creation of foreign colonies for the economic benefit of the mother country
• Dutch role in exploration: Relations with the East – limited trade with the far east
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Louis XIV
• 1638-1715: longest tenure as king in history
• Versailles: palace was the symbol of strength and power – housed the French nobility
• Nobles: were kept in check by the King
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Ivan the Terrible
• Secret police: used to keep nobility under control – NO opposition
• Boyars: nobility who threatened Ivan’s rule/power