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Capitalism and the First Industrial Revolution
Season 2
Mechanization and industrialization, motivated and enabled by capitalism, created tremendous wealth for eighteenth- and nineteenth-century business o…
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The Rise of a Global Economy
Season 2
The Seven Years’ War (1754–1763) established a new balance of power in Europe in which Britain emerged as the dominant empire. The French surrendered…
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European Colonization in the Americas
Season 2
European settlers in North America were a diverse group with a wide array of motives. Many Spaniards came as part of a broader search for “God, Gold,…
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Colonial Empires
Season 2
In the second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, the world’s industrialized nations claimed colonies in Africa, Asia,…
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The Atlantic Slave Trade
Season 2
To extract wealth from their colonies, over the course of the late fifteenth through the early nineteenth centuries, European nations shipped approxi…
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The Mercantilist Economy
Season 2
According to mercantilist theory, to achieve power, nations must maximize their store of precious metals by importing as few goods as possible while …
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Crossing the Atlantic
Season 2
With the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans in 1453, Europeans found themselves forced to deal with Muslim middlemen to access the prized goods o…
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The Protestant Reformation
Season 2
In the sixteenth century, many European Christians were critical of practices within the Catholic Church. Some scholars in northern Europe had turned…
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The Safavid Empire
Season 2
The establishment of the Safavid state under Shah Ismail I in 1501 was followed by rapid territorial expansion, but conflict between factions of the …
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The Ottoman Empire
Season 2
The Ottoman Empire The Ottoman Empire was one of the most diverse political entities of its time. Sultans such as Suleiman I encouraged people of all…
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