ASIA AND THE WORLD
(1450-1800)
STRONG EMPIRES
• OTTOMAN (12991922)
• RUSSIAN (15331917)
• SAFAVID-IRAN
(1521-1722),
• MUGHAL-INDIA
(1526-1858),
• QING –CHINA
(1644-1911
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.
End of feudal
relations,
Expansion
State
Ottoman
Empire
Portug.
Dutch in
SEA
1450-1650-1750
Europe
To America
Africa, Asia
Absolutism
Mercantilism
Middle East
Asia
-Ottoman Empire
-Persian Empire
Ming
to
Qing
Portug,
Dutch
in SEA
Mughal
The Age of Revolution (1750-1850)
• Economy (Industrial Revolution)
• Politics (American, French Revolutions;
Revolutions of 1848)
• Science (Enlightenment)