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ap world history - age of exploration & global trade

originally streamed in 2020 with Dylan BlackStudent
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Learn how global economics transformed from 1450-1750 through exploration, trade systems, and the Columbian Exchange. This lecture walks you through the Age of Exploration, mercantilism, the silver trade, and how European powers reshaped the world ec ...more

curriculum note

The video description refers to this as a 'Period 2' review, which is outdated AP World History terminology. In the current AP World History: Modern course, the 1450–1750 content covered here falls under Unit 3 (Land-Based Empires) and Unit 4 (Transoceanic Interconnections).

covered in this stream

units
Unit 4 – Global Connections: 1450-1750Unit 3 – Land-Based Empires (1450-1750)
topics
4.1 Technological Innovations from 1450 to 17504.2 Exploration4.3 Columbian Exchange4.4 Maritime Empires Established4.5 Maritime Empires Maintained and Developed4.7 Class and Race from 1450-1750Labor Systems in the Early Modern World (c. 1450 - c. 1750) Transoceanic ConnectionsCompeting Empires, 1450-17503.1 Expansion of Land-Based EmpiresThe Islamic "Gunpowder Empires"

timestamps

  • 0:00

    Introduction to Globalization

  • 0:34

    Shift in Power Post-1450

  • 1:37

    Economic Impacts 1450-1750

  • 2:09

    Age of Exploration Begins

  • 3:12

    Fall of Byzantine Empire

  • 4:47

    Rise of Gunpowder Empires

  • 5:48

    Renaissance and European Growth

  • 7:19

    Reconquista and Inquisition

  • 8:55

    Motives: God, Gold, Glory

  • 11:35

    Major Voyages and Explorers

  • 12:38

    Navigation Technologies Adopted

  • 15:41

    Columbian Exchange Overview

  • 17:16

    Diseases and Native Impact

  • 18:52

    Cash Crops and Plantations

  • 19:54

    Racial Social Order

  • 21:28

    Silver as Global Commodity

  • 24:07

    Inflation from Silver Influx

  • 25:10

    Quantity Theory of Money

  • 29:22

    Golden Age of Piracy

  • 31:56

    Mercantilism Philosophy Explained

  • 35:50

    Triangular Trade System

  • 38:30

    Middle Passage and Slavery

  • 40:04

    Joint Stock Companies

  • 43:12

    Colonies for Mercantilism

  • 46:52

    Isolation in Japan and China

  • 50:00

    Periodization and World Maps

  • 52:05

    Key Events Summary

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