summry Flashcards
Most historians would say that c. 1500 is a good marker. Why?
Europeans worked their way into the Indian Ocean and South China Sea trade networks; this was a permanent change
Burst of imperial expansion in Europe and Asia at the same time brought greater integration
The conquest of the Americas was unlike any imperial expansion that had come before – outposts of Europe in the New World that maintained close connections
Columbian Exchange – last big exchange of plants, animals, diseases
Printing press with movable type tech spread from China to rest of world
what is “Columbian Exchange”
The Columbian exchange, also known as the Columbian interchange, was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, precious metals, commodities, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the New World (the Americas) in the Western Hemisphere, and the Old World (Afro-Eurasia)
in 18th C who was the biggest exporter of cotton?
India - 25% of output globaly - England could not compete
Who was the East India company
UK company who took over india - UK had a slow start of industrialization and they took advantage of India
who bought the more expensive and less quality cotton from UK?
north america - they had a captive market there
when does the UK adopted the free trade policy with India
once they were able to compete with them they forced the Indian colony for free trade (no tarrif and taxes)
what and when was the 1st wave of modern mass migration
during 1830-1930
more than 160M migrants
1. from high to low density areas
also this era of migration created a lot of laws/passports and boarders = ways to control migration
Great Hunger in Ireland
היה באירלנד פטריה שהרסה את התפוחי אדמה שהיו המקור אוכל העיקרי עבור המדינה
מה שגרם לעוני רב ולמחסור באוכל
וגם גם למילון עד 2 מיליון מהגרים לעזוב
Crystal Palace Exhibition in London
exemplifies the ethos of European-led globalization: faith in technology & man’s power over nature, mass consumerism, the rightness of European colonial power, optimism.
waht approch does russia and japan had?
“industrialization from above” to avoid being sucked into a colonial relationship with Europe. - they quarantide themself from the rest of the world
exmaple in japan of europian change of culture
they let costumer eneter shops without shoes
waht is the Global North and Global South?
אירופה ארצות הברית ויפן התקדמו בטכנולוגיה בעוד ששאר העולם נשאר מאחור - עד היום יש את הפער הזה
what is The First International
and marxs idras
תנועה שניסתה לאחד את העובדים בעולם
סוציאליסטים
יום עבודה של 8 שעות
Marx’s ideas, especially, spread around the world and became the primary alternative to capitalism
when was what is The First International
really embrased?
Only in the mid-1970s did significant numbers of labor organizations from Latin America, Africa, and Asia join the successor organizations of the First International
when does the deglobalization started
explain why
לפי חלק מההיסטוריום
מלחמת העולם הראשונה
השפל הגדול
ומלחמת העולם השניה
Multiethnic empires broke apart (e.g., Ottoman & Hapsburg)
Tariffs & other protectionist measures erected worldwide
From years before WWI to bottom of Great Depression, world trade declined by 25%