History 1123, Lecture Outline and Terms for:

European Global Enterprises and European Society in the Early Modern Era

I. Changes in European Society
 

A. The Rise of the State and the Formation of New Elites
 
1. Centralization of State Institutions
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

2. The New Elites
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

B. Science, Popular Culture, Religion, and Enlightenment
 
1. Transformation of Popular Culture
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

2. Religion and Science
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

3. Enlightenment
 


 
 


II. Changes in European Economies
 

A. Europe’s Shift in Economic Focus
 
1. Proto-Industrialization and Take-Off to Industrialization, 1600-1850
 
a. Private Agriculture
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

b. Proto-Industrialization and Manufacturing

1. Proto-Industrialization
 
 
 
 
 
 

2. Manufacturing
 


 
 
 
 
c. Plantation Agriculture
 
 
 

d. Global Trade: the Shift Away from Consumption Importation and Urban-Dominated Internal Trade


 
1. Importation of ideas and techniques, not just goods
 
 
 
 
 
 

2. New ways of organizing companies
 


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

3. Attempt to integrate enterprises completely



Key Terms:
Spain
France
England
Dutch Republic
local assemblies
legislative bodies
Protestants
Catholics
Muslims
Jews
mercantile & industrial elites
non-noble landowners (gentry)
chari vari
cunning men & women
maleficia
diabolism
Witch Craze, 1550-1650
German Peasant War, 1525
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
Enlightenment
Denis Diderot (1713-1784)
John Locke (1632-1704)
Voltaire (1694-1778)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
David Hume (1711-1776)
the Science of Man
peasants
guild system
artisans
merchants
proto-industrialization
stock markets
Amsterdam Exchange, 1609
London Stock Exchange, 1698

Paris Bourse, 1724
insurance
Lloyds of London, c. 1688
limited liability company
English (later British) East India Company, 1600
Dutch East India Company, 1602

Amsterdam Bank of Exchange (Wisselbank), 1609
Bank of England, 169
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Adam Smith (1723-1790)
 

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