2.1 World Empires

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Welcome!

• Sit down on your fixed place 
  
• Place your history books on the table
• No phones
• Wait for the lesson to start

today 

-working lesson PA.

2 lessons left!!
Mail the powerpoint the day before 

Today 

- PA: the definite assignment and planning 

- 2.1 instruction

Interesting for your PA:

> Spain as a big colonial power

> The Ottoman Empire as a 'forgotten' middle eastern power

What is a 'world empire'
Examples?

Definition

World Empire:  An empire that is a cultural, political, geographical, technological and/or social power in a part of the world. It can make and execute laws in it's territory.

1500: 

Suleiman the Great

Charles V

Two superpowers

• Spain
• Ottoman Empire 

'The sun never settles in Charles V's empire'

Ottoman Empire 

• Ottoman sultan was the secular (nog-religious) leader, but also the highest kalief (leader of islam).
  
• Symbol: crescent moon 

 Szigetvar Hungary, 1566

Battle of Lepanto

Near Greece 

over 8.000 dead

Read page 29. Which empire was the most tolerant? Explain why.

What kind of slavery occured in the 16th century? Read page 30

Assignments

"Een oorzaak van de ontdekkingsreizen is de achteruitgang van de handel op de Middellandse Zee". Leg uit dat deze stelling klopt.

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