During the 15th century, European nations began to send explorers throughout the world; these explorers helped create new trade routes, which greatly affected Europe’s prosperity and the interactions between European countries. The Europeans influenced other countries and cultures by establishing trading stations, creating colonies, imposing their ideas upon various native people, and introducing new diseases, and non-European cultures also changed European trade, social life, and ideas. European nations created a global trading system that changed the food cultures of a multitude of countries, and scholars in Europe began to describe and analyze the different people, cultures, and places that Europeans encountered. Demand for a workforce
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The growth of large scale agriculture and factories had huge economic and social impacts; peasants came to work in factories, and the population gradually increased in the 18th century due to improved climate and diet, then it exploded in the 19th …show more content…
Europe’s economic inequality and subsequent instability in the 19th century led people to think about the roles evolving nations played in their citizens’ economic lives, and they developed ideas such as socialism and Marxism as a result of these thoughts. Two world wars and the Great Depression had a devastating impact on Europe, transforming economic patterns and complicating the government’s role in the unstable economy; Soviet Russia and nations in Central and Western Europe represented two of the ways this issue was dealt with. Consumerism took on even more importance, and a movement towards economic unity and a common currency began. Though most Europeans learned about the world through religion, an increasing number began to rely on philosophical and scientific inquiry instead. As a result, science began to be seen as an objective source of truth about the
The growth of large scale agriculture and factories had huge economic and social impacts; peasants came to work in factories, and the population gradually increased in the 18th century due to improved climate and diet, then it exploded in the 19th …show more content…
Europe’s economic inequality and subsequent instability in the 19th century led people to think about the roles evolving nations played in their citizens’ economic lives, and they developed ideas such as socialism and Marxism as a result of these thoughts. Two world wars and the Great Depression had a devastating impact on Europe, transforming economic patterns and complicating the government’s role in the unstable economy; Soviet Russia and nations in Central and Western Europe represented two of the ways this issue was dealt with. Consumerism took on even more importance, and a movement towards economic unity and a common currency began. Though most Europeans learned about the world through religion, an increasing number began to rely on philosophical and scientific inquiry instead. As a result, science began to be seen as an objective source of truth about the