Big History - The World in 1600 - Eurasian Empires
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Schedule:
6pm-6:30 - Arrive/social time
6:30 - Presentations will start
8:30 - Planned finish, but may go over a bit.
9pm - Venue closes
And now for something a little different...this is the first of 3 parts, looking at the state of the Non-European world prior to the full onslaught of European colonialism.
Starting with Asia, where contrary to what we might think today, the era's most powerful empires of the time were situated.
According to Google AI:
"Around 1600, Eurasia was dominated by vast, powerful empires—Ottoman, Mughal, Safavid, Ming China, Muscovy—with significant shifts underway as European maritime powers expanded, leading to global trade and colonization, while Russia began its push into Siberia and the steppes, contrasting with relative peace under Japan's Tokugawa Shogunate, all within a dynamic period of gunpowder empires and emerging nation-states."
***Rather than a presentation or lecture, the idea will be for attendees to do their own prior research which they can then contribute with at the event. You are also welcome to attend of course without researching or having anything to share.***
List of topics for potential individual research are under the first sheet of this file:
### If you would like to research and talk about one of these topics (or any other relevant one of your choice), please advise which in the comments below of on the Google Sheet linked!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1gCf9CGsJyR47TR2ommRasyN1ONks8ZZWT8FGG9o45NI/edit?gid=548731266#gid=548731266
*Also please free to share any good podcasts/videos you have on this subject in the comments below!