Blog #4

Spain was the first to challenge the portuguese who were making a name for themselves around this time. Spain formed a colony around the pacific islands around 1565, the Spanish named them the Philippine Islands in honor of King Philip II of Spain. The Dutch founded a company in the early 17th century so that they could trade with Asia. Who were more richer and more powerful than England's company, they drove out the English and established dominance over Asia. It ended up going bankrupt and being bought out by the British which they had no idea was going to happen.

Blog #3

In the 16th Century the Portuguese empire was by the Portuguese, this was a form of imperialism based on controlling trade rather than subject peoples or large territories. They did that so they could control the trade routes by forcing merchant vessels to stop at fortified trading sites and pay taxes there so they can make more money this was very brilliant to me.

Blog #2

Chapter 13 talks about the Russian empire, the most transforming feature of the Russian Empire was the influx of Russian settlers. In 1720 700,000 Russians moved to siberia reducing the native Siberians to 30 percent of the population. This caused a loss of hunting grounds and their economy had to depend on Russian markets for grain, sugar, tea, tobacco, and alcohol. Also chapter thirteen talked about the Asian empires, the Asian empire did not invade america or another country like the europeans were doing. There invasions were more local the Chinese invaded Eurasia and central Asia to create the Mughal empire, bringing Hindu South Asia within a single Muslim ruled political system.Then later on in the chapter it talks about Muslims and Hindus who were both in the Mughal Empire, which is what i just taped about previously.

Early Modern World

The Columbian exchange created new networks of interaction from across the oceans and into different countries which came to be known as importing and exporting goods. The Europeans ruled North America and South America changing everything that the natives did to make them more modern, and how to do things the European way. Not to mention that Christopher Columbus killed hundreds of thousand actually millions of native Americans in his voyage to take over both of the American continents. Among the early modern empires, those of the western Europe were distinctive because the conquered territories lay an ocean away from their heartland. The Europeans had an advantage because they were closer than Asia and other countries in the chapter it said that the winds of the atlantic ocean blew them right to America and South America.