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Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections

🕓 Time Period: 1450-1750

Chapters

4.1: Technological Innovations

4.2: Exploration: Causes and Events

4.3: The Columbian Exchange

4.4: Maritime Empires Link Regions

4.5: Maritime Empires Develop

4.6: Challenges to State Power

4.7: Changing Social Hierarchies

4.8: Continuity and Change from 1450 to 1750

Context

Christopher Columbus reaches Americas in 1492

Marks the beginning of the connection of the Eastern & Western hemispheres

European nations like Spain and Portugal sought to establish trading post empires in the Indian Ocean

Rise of Triangular Trade

Columbian Exchange: exchange of crops, animals, and disease

Change and Continuity

Worldwide European influence starts to increase

Demand for food and goods increases

Mughal, Ottoman, and Qing Empires continue to flourish