Resources used to support Shepway and District u3a’s Science, Philosophy, and Spirituality Group’s Session 2.09: Global Trade. A look at the non-Eurocentric history of the world between 1600 and 1750, which saw the birth of Capitalism and Globalism.
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Between 1450 and 1600 CE the world became entangled globally, as European explorer’s circumnavigated the globe, and established a network of maritime trade routes. This page contains links to the resources that supported the Shepway and District u3a’s Seminar for the Science, Philosophy, and Spirituality Group in October 2024.
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An article summarising how Ottoman domination of Indian and Chinese trade routes to Europe led to European maritime exploration of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans between 1450 and 1600. Subsequent European colonisation of America and Africa transformed global interactions, destroyed ancient and long-standing empires in the Americas, established the Atlantic slave trade, and amplified the religious upheaval in Europe.
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When Richard Nisbett showed an animated underwater scene to his American students, they zeroed in on a big fish swimming among smaller fish. Japanese subjects, on the other hand, made observations about the background environment…and the different “seeings” are a clue to profound underlying cognitive differences between Westerners and East Asians. As Professor Nisbett shows in The Geography of Thought people actually think – and even see – the world differently, because of differing ecologies, social structures, philosophies, and educational systems that date back to ancient Greece and China, and that have survived into the modern world.
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