Changing Social Hierarchies 1450-1750 [AP World History] Unit 4 Topic 7

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In this video Heimler explains how social hierarchies were strained and changed in the period 1450-1750. In the Ottoman Empire, viziers gained power because of a string of weak sultans. Also, a group of women, specifically, the sultan’s wives and concubines, gained power through what’s known as harem politics.

In the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu rulers oppressed the Han Chinese. One of the key contentions was the requirement for the Han to wear their hair in Manchurian queues.

In Europe, Russia’s social hierarchy was under strain too. The boyars fought with Ivan the Terrible for power, a fight which Ivan ultimately won. Also in Europe, Louis XIV, under the influence of absolutist thinking, stripped the nobility of their power and kept them under close surveillance in his palace at Versailles.

And in the Americas an altogether new social hierarchy was formed based on ancestry and race. At the top were the peninsula’s, followed by the criollos, followed by the castas. The last of these made up the Casta System which was a hierarchy of the American population who had mixed ancestry.

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