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Global Trends and Demographics

Demographics is another way of saying population. From 1400 to 1800 the worlds population grew from 375 million to 954 million people. At the end of the Early Modern period, only about two percent of people lived in cities, otherwise most of the people lived on farms and were farmers. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade cause a 92 million decrease in population in 1800. China and Japan were in political turmoil during these centuries. European nations started to explore and had some religious expansion. They started to get more complex systems of communication. Human interaction was a big one, the way people talk and interact with eachother started to change dramatically. Ship building and navigation speeded up global exchange. The technology started to advance so they could build ships faster and not just guess where other ships and land were at. Mounting ship cannons aboard was a new idea from the Europeans. Others like the Spanish, Dutch, British, Portuguese and French supported the idea of using firearms and cannons aboard their ships.The African American Slave trade was a difficult time to go through. They would transport slaves in ships from Africa to places where people would buy the expierenced slaves. The slaves would work on sugar plantations. China had outstanding naval capacity in the 1400s. China's river systems and canals progressed. The European power rised. Their military systems got stronger and bigger. They adopted gunpowder weaponry which was origionally from China. The new weapons lead to new tatics and strategy. They had different ways of diciplining and new ways to build strong forts. Usually during this period the wars were over religion, the Puritan Revolution in England, the seven years war and American war of Independence.The military revolution required deep changes in taxation and state bureaucracy. Some states couldn't pay for all of the artillery to join in at war so the rivals were much more successful.



__Sources:__ The Early Modern Period 1450-1750: The Great Global Convergence -->Article [|web source]