GINS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Alhambra Decree, Al-Andalus, Catholic Monarchs

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Global and International Studies
• Course: GINS 1000
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Southern empires: aztec (1428-1521) ~ mexica/nahua, capital tenochtitlan (mexico) Empire: the dominant model of socio-political organization in the globalizing world- rise in consolidated, self- reflexive sovereign political polities, multiethnic, multireligious, multilinguistic, dramatic change in scale and scope- technological change, networks horizontal-consensual, hierarchies-vertical- coercive. Mongol empire: laying the foundation for the modern world: easing trade on the silk roads, standardization, religious pluralism, massacres, harsh tributes, rape as a weapon (dna =1 in 200, spread of black death changes demographics. Four khanates: major world empires, russian, ottoman, safavid, mughai. Importance of empire: rise in consolidated, self reflexive, sovereign political polities, networks- horizontal- consensual, hierarchies-vertical-coercive, consolidation + rationalization + expansion. Infant henrique (aka henry the navigator: a volta do mar, caravels and lateen sails, astrolabe, african excursion (1430s-1440s, he wants people to do to the indies and find the kingdom of preston john.