intro to part 4

The Early Modern World 1450-1750

• An early modern era? 
• In this section, it talks about the globalization in European journeys and colonization of the Americas, the Atlantic slave trade, and ancient Asian trade routes. There were transfers of diseases, people, plants, and precious metals known as the Columbian exchange where there were routes across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Christianity also reached out to other parts of the world like the Philippines, Russia, the Americas, and more. The Scientific Revolution was one of the most modern cultural development where many people had different views of the world, gained more knowledge, and had a different understanding of religions like Christianity. As the world population was massively increasing, there were more economies developing in cities and housing inhabitants. Businesses and markets were producing for other markets far away than their local community, I guess for better profit. Military in various countries changed their weapons to more gunpowder and guns as they were more beneficial. This affected farming and ranching for farmers where the majority of the land was confiscated for military use. 
• A late agrarian era? 
• In the eighteenth century, China and Japan controlled European missionaries and merchants, and the African authorities controlled the slave trade. Besides Christianity being the largest religion to spread around the world, Islam eventually became the largest spreading faith in various countries. Social groups were a way to categorize people due to their work or community. There were lower, middle, and high class that organized groups of people. Gender equality was still an issue at this time, as well as mass poverty. In China, many people practiced Confucian values and social structures. Indians practiced Hinduism and Islam was maintained in the Eastern Hemisphere.