IDST 1000Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Industrial Revolution, Mercantilism, East India Company
15 Dec 2016
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Colonialism and development in the south and north (1500-1950) 24/09/2014. 1500 there were 440 million people (1/2 of whom were in south and east asia) China and india were wealthy as countries. Before europe starts to expand, the world was very diverse with different critical types of societies. Subsistence societies: organized around maintaining subsistence, kinship was important, egalitarian (apart from gender), cooperation, etc. Pre-capitalist states: elites controlling people, social inequality (control of food), Agrarian labour, the relationship with a master" overrode kinship and relationships with family, and the use of force was common. Europe, the middle east, asia, and latin america. Europe began to expand because of a crisis in the social order (partially due to. In the late 15th, early 16th century, europe started expanding. It overwhelmed subsistence societies and pre-capitalist states outside of europe feudalism) The first recognizable states (particularly england) had landowning aristocracies, and taxed peasants when they needed money.
