Intro Pt.5 Ch. 16

Part 5 

• There is an intersection of Scientific, French, and Industrial Revolutions. They took place in Western Europe. 
• The demand for raw materials to supply new factories and to feed their workers drove developments across the globe, leaving a mark on remote regions
• Growing numbers of scientists and other scholars argue that humankind was then entering a new era in human history and history of the planet.
• Even though the European moment operated on a genuinely global scale, Western peoples have enjoyed their worldwide primacy for at most two centuries. 
• The rise of Europe occurred within an international context. 
• The Industrial Revolution benefitted from New World resources and markets fand from the stimulus of superior Asian textile and pottery production. 
• In Africa, fear of offending Muslim sensibilities persuaded the British to keep European missionaries and mission schools out of northern Nigeria during the colonial era. 
• Peoples made use of Europeans and European ideas for their own purposes, seeking to gain advantage over local rivals or to benefit themselves in light of new conditions. 

Chapter 16 

• The Haitian revolution was part of and linked to a much larger set of upheavals that shook both sides of the Atlantic world between 1775 and 1825. 
• Haitians drew inspiration from earlier French and North American Revolution. 
• From the early eighteenth century to the mid-nineteenth, many parts of the world witnessed political and social upheaval, leading some historians to think in terms of a "world crisis" or "converging revolutions." 
• By the 1730s, the Safavid dynasty that had ruled Persia had collapsed. 
• China is the late eighteenth  and early nineteenth centuries hosted a number of popular though unsuccessful rebellions, a prelude perhaps to the huge Taiping Revolution of 1850-1864
• Upheavals occurred in the context of expensive wars, weakening states, and destabilizing processes of commercialization. 
• In the Seven Years' War, Britain and France joined the battle in North America, the Caribbean, West Africa, and South Asia. 
• The expenses of those conflicts prompted the British to levy additional taxes on their North American colonies and the French monarchy to seek new revenue from its landowners. 
• The Atlantic revolutions were distinctive in that they were closely 
• The American Revolutionary leader Thomas Jefferson was the U.S. ambassador to France on the eve of the French Revolution. 
• Simon Bolivar, a leading figure in Spanish American struggles for independence, twice visited Haiti, where he received military aid from the first black government in the Americas. 
• The Atlantic basin had become a world of intellectual and cultural exchange as well as one of the commercial and biological interactions. 
• The ideas that animated the Atlantic revolutions derived from the European Enlightenment and were shared across the ocean in newspapers, books, and pamphlets. 
• New ideas of liberty, equality, free trade, religious