Lecture Slides, GMU, His 125 009, Fall 2019

1. Recovery: New Ideas
and New Empires
Week 4

2. Overview
• 1300 – 1600
• Indian Ocean Trade
• The Islamic World
• The European
Renaissance
• Spain

3. India
• Delhi Sultanate
• Mughal Empire
– Babur (r.1526-1530)
– Akbar (r.1556-1605)
• Recovery
• Sikhism
• Zaminders
– currency
• Silver
– China
• Portugal

4. Akbar Inspecting
the Construction
of Fatehpur-Sikri,
c. 1590

5. Ming China and Indian Ocean Trade

6. Ming Bank Note, 1371

7. India
Akbar Hears a Petition
Vasco da Gama and the leader of
Calicut, 1498

8. The Islamic Empires, 1500 – 1800

9. The Islamic World
• The Ottoman Empire
(c.1300 – 1918)
– Turks
– Sunni
– 1453, Constantinople
• Istanbul
– Mehmed II (r. 1451–1481)
– Government
• Sultan
• Caliph
– Janissaries
• Devshirme
• Safavid Empire (c. 1300 –
1722)
– Safi al-Din (1252-1334)
– Ismail (r. 1501-1524)
• Shiites
• Shah
– Enemies
• Ottoman Turks
• Uzbeks
• Battle of Chaldiran, 1514
Ottoman Turks, Battle of
Mohacs, 1526

10. Ottoman Expansion

11. Ottoman Devshirme, c. 1558

12. Safavid Empire

13. The Renaissance

14. Europe, late 1400s

15. Northern Italy
• Urban
– City-states
– Republics
• Wealth
– Trade
– Geography
– Banking
• Medici
• Ancient Rome

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The Roman Forum
Ruins of the Roman Forum, Rome, Italy

17. Duomo, Brunelleschi, Florence, 1436

18. Humanism
• Ancient Rome
• Lorenzo Valla (1406 – 1457)
– “Donation of Constantine”
• Printing Press
– Gutenberg, 1440
• Religion
• Politics
– Civic Humanism
– Virtue
– Education
– Rhetoric
– Women
School of Athens, Raphael, 1510

19. Humanism

20. Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)

21. High Renaissance Art
Bellini and Titian, The Feast of
the Gods, 1514/1529
Agnolo Bronzino, The Holy
Family, c. 1525

22. Michelangelo, David, 1501-4

23. An Important Marriage, 1469
Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile

24. Kingdom of Spain
• Iberian Peninsula
• Policies/Goals
• Reconquista
• Moors
– Granada, 1492
• Conversos

25. Reconquista