Early Modern Americas and Oceania:

Integration or inundation?

AP World History

Richard Smart

Oakland Mills High School

Remembering and characterizing…

World History Themes:Societal Interactions

Technology and DemographyGender and Social Structure

Intellectual and CulturalPolitical Organization

Period 1:8000BCE – 600CE

Silk RoadAmerican Isolation

AgricultureWorld Religions

Complex SocietiesClassical Empires

Period 2:600CE – 1450CE

Mongol Peace/Indian OceanAmerican Empire Building

UrbanizationMigrations

Chinese Inv/RenaissanceIslam & Mongols

Period 3:1450 – 1750

Voyages of ExplorationIntegration of Atlantic World

Scientific RevolutionEnlightenment

Gunpowder EmpiresAbsolutism

America and Oceania – 1450…

Americas Isolated until 1492. Distinct regional

economies Regional Empires

Maya Toltec Aztec Inca

Oceania Isolated until 1700s Polynesian Migrations Regional Kingdoms

Whatchanged?

Change in Oceania…

1500s Spanish & Manila Galleon Trade Guam

1600s Dutch exploration of Australia Spanish & Mariana Islands

1700s English & James Cook Increased European trade & colonization

Interactions increased by 1750, but no large scale interactions…

The Americas & the World…

In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue and then…

The Columbian Exchange:

Diseases, plants animals…

The Spanish:Caribbean

ConquistadoresEmpire

CatholicismEncomienda/

RepartamientoMuti-racial society

Silver

English, Dutch French:

CaribbeanNorth America

Fur TradeSettlementPlantations

The Portuguese:Tordesillas

SugarSlavery

Conclusions…

Europeans becoming the catalyst for global change through exploration, trade and colonization.

Global economy influenced by Spanish silver. Global environment affected by the biological

exchange begun by Columbus.

However… Oceania still isolated.