The History Book

179 European colonies Spanish, Dutch, and French settlers pioneered the plantation system in the Caribbean, producing crops such ...

180 THERE IS NO CORNER WHERE ONE DOES NOT TALK OF SHARES THE OPENING OF THE AMSTERDAM STOCK EXCHANGE (1602) T he Amsterdam Stock ...

181 See also: Christopher Columbus reaches America 142–47 ■ The Treaty of Tordesillas 148–51 ■ The Defenestration of Prague 164– ...

182 The expanding merchant class saw large potential profits in the spice trade with Asia and, as in other maritime cultures suc ...

183 been a strong financial market in Amsterdam, where there was a tradition of trading in commodities and speculation in everyt ...

184 AFTER VICTORY TIGHTEN THE CORDS OF YOUR HELMET THE BATTLE OF SEKIGAHARA (1600) O n October 21, 1600 there was a momentous ba ...

185 See also: Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Shogun 98–99 ■ The opening of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange 180–83 ■ The Meiji Restoratio ...

186 I n 1644, the Manchu—a semi- nomadic people who had built a large state to the northeast of China’s Great Wall—seized Beijin ...

187 See also: Marco Polo reaches Shangdu 104–05 ■ Hongwu founds the Ming dynasty 120–27 ■ The Second Opium War 254–55 ■ The Long ...

188 See also: The founding of Baghdad 86–93 ■ Brunelleschi designs the dome of Florence Cathedral 152–55 ■ Diderot publishes the ...

189 See also: Marco Polo reaches Shangdu 104–05 ■ Christopher Columbus reaches America 142–47 ■ The Treaty of Tordesillas 148–51 ...

190 See also: The execution of Charles I 174–75 ■ Diderot publishes the Encyclopédie 192–95 ■ The storming of the Bastille 208–1 ...

191 See also: Christopher Columbus reaches America 142–47 ■ The Defenestration of Prague 164–69 ■ The voyage of the Mayflower 17 ...

192 ASSEMBLE ALL THE KNOWLEDGE SCATTERED ON THE EARTH DIDEROT PUBLISHES THE ENCYCLOPÉDIE (1751) I n the mid 18th century, the Fr ...

193 See also: Newton publishes Principia 188 ■ The signing of the Declaration of Independence 204–07 ■ The storming of the Basti ...

194 adherence to a faith. They argued that “truths” about the tangible world, which had been set down in antiquity by Aristotle ...

195 John Locke—the father of liberalism. Locke asserted that there are certain intrinsic human rights that are not dependent on ...

196 I BUILT ST. PETERSBURG AS A WINDOW TO LET IN THE LIGHT OF EUROPE THE FOUNDING OF ST. PETERSBURG (1703) R ussian ruler Peter ...

197 See also: Louis XIV begins personal rule of France 190 ■ Diderot publishes the Encyclopédie 192–95 ■ The storming of the Bas ...

198 THE FOUNDING OF THE SAFAVID DYNASTY, PERSIA (1501) The Safavid dynasty rose to power under Shah Ismail I, a leader of the Tw ...