Early Modern Europe Emerges

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Early Modern Europe Emerges

• The Islamic World, Discovery of the New World,
  and a Changing Europe

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Timeline

• 1456 Gutenberg Bible (Invention of movable type)
• 1492 Columbus Discovery of the New World
• ca 1500 Renaissance
• 1517 Protestant Reformation
• 1607 Founding of Virginia (Jamestown Colony)
• 1620-30 Founding of Plymouth Colony and
  Massachusetts Bay

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The Muslim World

• Mohammed born 570 CE
• Islam spreads 6th Century onward
• Civilization shifts to the east
• Western Christendom confronts a large empire on
  its southern and eastern border.

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Expansion of Islam
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Expansion of Islam
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Islamic World, 900
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Expansion of Islam, 1300
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Ottoman Empire, 1566
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European Timeline, Post Black Death

• 1456 Gutenberg Bible Invention of Movable
  Type
• Discovery of the New World 1492
• Ca 1500 Renaissance
• Protestant Reformation 1517
• 1607 Founding of Virginia (Jamestown Colony
• 1620-1630 Founding of Plymouth Colony and
  Massachusetts Bay

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Timeline

• 17th Century (1600s) The Golden Age of the Dutch
  Republic
• 1640-1660 English Revolution
• 17th - 18th Centuries (1600-1700s) Reign of the
  Louis Louis XIV (1661-1715)
• 1776 American Revolution
• 1789 French Revolution
• Late 18th Century Industrial Revolution in
  England

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Protestant Reformation

• Martin Luther (and others) challenge the primacy
  of the Papacy and Catholic ideas...
• Splits the unity of Western Christendom
• Reorganizes the relationship between individual
  and God
• Reorganizes the relationship among church, state
  and family

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Discovery and Colonization of the New World (and
Trade with Far East)

• Expands the horizons of Europe and expands
  European civilization
• Brings new products to Europeans (sugar, coffee,
  tea, tobacco, corn, spices, china, silk, paper,
  gunpowder, pasta)
• Fosters the expansion of the trading economy and
  urban society, particularly in the Netherlands
  and Britain

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Expansion of Science, Reading and Knowledge

• Development of printing and book publishing
• Expansion of literacy and hence schooling
• Expansion of science and technology
• Astronomy
• Navigation

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Rise of Democratic Society

• Invention of the idea of the rights of man and
  challenge to absolutist ideals
• Development of conceptions of liberty, equality,
  fraternity, freedom of speech, conscience,
  religion
• Countertrends The reintroduction of slavery as a
  labor system

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European Social Classes

• Nobility or Aristocracy
• Gentry (propertied, but not necessarily noble)
• Middle Classes, Bourgeois, Burghers (Urban
  Professionals)
• Tradesmen, artisans, small holders
• Poor

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What is yet to come...

• The Industrial Revolution first seen in Britain
  in the late 18th century
• steam engine
• railroads
• new forms of communication, e.g., telegraph,
  telephone
• factory system of production

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Western European Marriage Pattern

• Late marriage (age)
• Neolocal
• Low fertility
• Long generations