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)