MMW 13 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Military Revolution, Protestant Reformation, Spice Trade
1 May 2018
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The late 15th century rise of Italian states was fueled by both banking and trade.
Class objective:
How did changes in tactics, weapons, and infrastructure lead to a military revolution,
changing the dynamics of afro-Eurasian trade?
1450-1540
Revolution
Fundamental change (not power shift)
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Institution
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Severe
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Structure
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Ex. iPhone, self-driven car
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The military revolution (Mongol, ottoman…)
Destabilized trade networks
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Contributed to the rise of large armies
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Led to longer, more expensive, deadly wars
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Contributed to the rise of centralized states ---tips balance of power away from
nomads
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Military revolution
Firearms---cannons, guns
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"so called gunpower societies"
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Ottoman
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Safavid
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Mughal
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Ottoman Empire
1516-1517: ottomans defeated mamluks to control Egypt and Syria
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Ottoman expansion
Sulieman I 1520-1566
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Expands into Europe
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Conquers Iraq
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Control Mediterranean---red sea, Persian gulf, spice trade
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Control of major Islamic elites
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Ottoman expansion
Shifted power in the Islamic world
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Created a large stumbling block to European trade with the far east
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Search for new routes
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Destabilized Europe
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Economically supported the protestant reformation
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Military revolution
Mongol-new technologies
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Mounted warfare (cavalry)
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Siege warfare (catapults)
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Gunpower for military purposes: cannon
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Gunpower
Invented in China---9th century
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Travels to afro-Eurasia along silk road
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In middle east and Iberia --- 13th century
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Western Europe--- 14th century
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Weapons and tactics
1350
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Gunpower cannons
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Critical siege weapons
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Gunners replace lance and pike
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Rise of individual firearms---arquebus, musket
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Infrastructure
Trace italienne
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Short
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Thick walls
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Earth and brick
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Sieges continue
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Armies grow
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Lec12 The Military Revolution
Monday, April 30, 2018
11:08 AM
