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  • World History: The Early Modern Period
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    • The Atlantic World in the 1600s
    • Global Trade: Europe, the Middle East and Asia
    • The Impact of Global Trade
    • Changing Political Systems and Colonial Conflicts
    • Absolutist Political Systems
    • Reformation and Counter-reformation in Europe
    • The Spread of Islam in Africa, the Middle East and Asia
    • The Enlightenment
    • Political Revolutions
    • Scientific and Industrial Revolutions

The Impact of Global Trade

1. Overview
2. A changing balance of power in Europe
3. A shifting economic relationship between East and West
4. Emerging patterns of production and consumption
5. The ecological impact of global exchange
6. Review

A shifting economic relationship between East and West

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Reading

Read the following article. As you do so, consider the following questions:

  • What was the economic relationship between Europe and Asia in the 1500s and 1600s?
  • Which countries had the greatest economic power during this period?
  • What evidence does Frank offer to support his arguments?

Andre Frank, ‘Asian-based World Economy 1400-1800: A Horizontally Integrative Macrohistory’, 12 November 1995.

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