Western Civilization

OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS West Meets East: An Exchange of Royal Letters Economic gain was not the only motivation of Western rulers wh ...

representative in India of the East India Company, which had been founded as a joint stock company in Eventually, the French we ...

beginning to appear. Unfortunately for China, this decline occurred just as Europe was increasing pressure for more trade. The f ...

a drop in the output of the silver mines and the pov- erty of the Spanish monarchy. As the seventeenth cen- tury began, both Por ...

stretched from the mouth of the Hudson River as far north as Albany, New York. In the second half of the seventeenth century, co ...

slaves to trade for guns and gunpowder. Without the slave trade in the nineteenth century, these territories became susceptible ...

practice of ancestor worship. Jealous Dominicans and Franciscans complained to the pope, who condemned the practice. Soon Chines ...

FI L M HISTORY The Mission(1986) DIRECTED BYROLANDJOFFE,The Mission examines religion, politics, and colonialism in Europe and ...

continued the same policies, the government ordered the execution of nine missionaries and a number of their Japanese converts. ...

natural and as yet untouched by European corruption. But even the latter group still believed that the Indi- ans should be conve ...

region in the north, and central Europe, whose inland trade depended on the Rhine and Danube Rivers. As overseas trade expanded, ...

into the lives of artisans and merchants. Pepper and spices from the Indies, West Indian and Brazilian sugar, and Asian coffee a ...

CHAPTER TIMELINE CHAPTER REVIEW Upon Reflection Q How did the experiences of the Spanish and Portuguese during the age of explor ...

andG. J. Ames,The Globe Encompassed: The Age of Euro- pean Discovery, 1500–1700(Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2007). PORTUGUESE AND ...

C H A P T E R 15 State Building and the Search for Order in the Seventeenth Century CHAPTER OUTLINE AND FOCUS QUESTIONS Social C ...

turning point in the evolution of the modern state system in Europe. The ideal of a united Christian Europe gave way to the prac ...

out. After the establishment of the Inquisition in the thirteenth century, some people were accused of a vari- ety of witchcraft ...

A Witchcraft Trial in France Persecutions for witchcraft reached their high point in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries whe ...

both minor and major European powers—Denmark, Sweden, France, and Spain—made the war a Europe- wide struggle (see Map 15.1). The ...

Holy Roman Empire. Political motives became the guidingforcesinpublicaffairsasreligionmoved closer to becoming primarily a matte ...