HIST 215 Lecture 6: The Age of Enlightenment
10 Aug 2016
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2)argus maddison- has to do with industrial revolution, move of europe after this. Up until then, everyone stayed on the same level of gdp. Other countries continued the same pattern, but then they moved out of it. Early modern period-important because eventhough the growth didn"t take place, it changed the mentality and curiosity. China: set out to explore the world(1500), closed itself and moved population from the coast to the interior to stop interactions with the outside world. Ottomans-most important military power in 15th-early 17th c-experimented with new things/navalwork. The fact that they focused on the interior. Russia:also the same situation, not considered european-considered asian power. Peter the great reforms, decided that russia had to open up to the sea and interaction and introduce whatever was knew and make itself. Think of mountains when you think of borders of european continents-invention of peter-he hired geographers to show russia was part of the european continent.
