The intricate history that surround the West mid 16th to mid 18th century is broad, and detailed. It is riddled with wars, between various countries and for a variety of reasons. It is filled with new age thinking, a focus on secular ideas, and an explosion of scientific discovery. New inventions and discoveries led to more diverse lives filled with luxuries and newly found commodities. The commercial revolution can take a significant credit for the role it played during this period in history. New trading norms changed the way the society operated. The social world and turned it topsy turvey, pushing certain nobilities out of the spotlight to make way for some upcoming members of society. Trade between countries exploded bringing new
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During the 15th-16th the French, British, and Spanish that lived in North America were producing goods and bringing them back to Europe. This process, known as the Cross-Atlantic exchange brought many patterns of consumption to both the East and West parts of the hemisphere. From the America’s, Europeans gained goods such as beans, corn, turkeys, potatoes, and unfortunately syphilis. Vice-versa the Europeans brought goods such as coffee, lettuce, cattle, and hoeybees. People began to be able to move up in status, not immediately and not without persistence, but a middle class citizen, with the right decisions, could make sure his descendants several generations down could become nobility. Cross Atlantic trade was becoming one of the most important aspects of European life. As Thomas Mun, Director of the Britain’s East India Company state, “For so much Treasure only will be brought in or carried out of Commonwealth, as the foreign Trade doth over or under balance in value. And this must come to pass by a Necessity beyond all resistance” (Sherman, 12.2). The expansion of trade continued to rise, and with it the idea that the government needed to play it’s part,
During the 15th-16th the French, British, and Spanish that lived in North America were producing goods and bringing them back to Europe. This process, known as the Cross-Atlantic exchange brought many patterns of consumption to both the East and West parts of the hemisphere. From the America’s, Europeans gained goods such as beans, corn, turkeys, potatoes, and unfortunately syphilis. Vice-versa the Europeans brought goods such as coffee, lettuce, cattle, and hoeybees. People began to be able to move up in status, not immediately and not without persistence, but a middle class citizen, with the right decisions, could make sure his descendants several generations down could become nobility. Cross Atlantic trade was becoming one of the most important aspects of European life. As Thomas Mun, Director of the Britain’s East India Company state, “For so much Treasure only will be brought in or carried out of Commonwealth, as the foreign Trade doth over or under balance in value. And this must come to pass by a Necessity beyond all resistance” (Sherman, 12.2). The expansion of trade continued to rise, and with it the idea that the government needed to play it’s part,