The Early Modern Period, 1450-1750: The
World Shrinks?
• The World Map Changes. 1450-1750
• The first is the formation of new empires.
Several of these were European, but the
Ottoman Turks, Mughal India and Russia also
expanded.
• The other big change came in trade routes,
which shifted from land routes and seaways
via the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean
to the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.