Early modern Europe

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…

periods: the mercantilist era, a period of discoveries for the European countries, that helped to develop an economical integration and ended with the Industrial Revolution. The second period of catch-up, in the 19th century, during which Western Europe and the USA focused on competing and developing with a set of policies: “creation of a unified national market (…); the erection of an external tariff to protect their industries from British competition; the chartering of banks to stabilize the…

Medieval Europe as a society greatly shunned deviations from cultural norms or established religious orthodoxy. From this denouncement, persecution of minority groups was commonplace, and possibly even a defining trait of European society at the time. Notably, mistreatment of Jewish communities and supposed Christian heresies were the more common forms of religious persecution. Furthermore, even Christians could be subject to persecution, if certain individuals were accused of breaking ethical…

Britain then extended to Western Europe and North America within a few years. Today I will talk about the industrial revolution and its effect on each of the cheap factors. The Industrial Revolution excelled a main revolving point in Earth’s ecosystem and humans’ connection with their environment. The Industrial Revolution intensely affected each characteristic of people’s life and lifestyles. The influence on the earth’s psyche did not start to record until the early 1960’s, about 200 years…

offenders and debtor and people who got kidnapped in Europe. But this stopped around at 1680 and the slavery from Africa had begun actively. Slavery in America began when the first African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619, to aid in the production of such lucrative crops as tobacco. In 1619, the Dutch introduced the first captured Africans to America, which provided basic idea of slavery system. And in the early 17th century, Europeans turned to…

Commerce does not only mean the act of trading, but it is an act of communication as well. The Scientific Revolution started off as small communities throughout Europe, working together as neighbors with a diversity of people. Eventually, voyages to the Indies, Americas, Africa and Asia allowed people to spread their knowledge and expand their curiosity. But why did traveling help these scientists gain the answers to their questions? With the three different readings that would be mentioned, the…

Without doubt, the plague motivated Europeans to find new and better living conditions than the current death-ridden society; however, the plague also displayed economic implications in the feudal society of 15th century Europe, as it completely had a leveling effect on the society resulting in vast socioeconomic changes. In the essence of a feudal society, the nobility maintains the holdings of the peasants in exchange of labor for basic…

The Napoleonic Empire which existed in the early nineteenth century had a large impact upon much of Europe. The Napoleonic regime was undeniably militaristic in nature and the existence of widespread conscription clearly highlights this. In the past historians have often regarded the empire as being purely a military enterprise. For example Georges Lefebvre branded the empire a ‘military dictatorship’. However, as contemporary historians have argued, it cannot be considered to have purely been…

Nations? The meeting of the Aboriginal people taught Europeans how to survive in the new world. Consequently, the meeting of the Europeans and First Nations started fur trading, because hats that were produced from beaver pelts were extremely popular in Europe. Furthermore, the fur trade has vastly affected the indigenous people lifestyle, cultures and religions. The fur trade effects have left negative and positive impacts on the First Nations. Nevertheless, most effects were negative, such as…

Luck Why are some countries so wealthy and modern, while others are left in misfortune and poverty? This is a question Jared Diamond and many others ask themselves almost everyday. After a visit to New Guinea, and many years of research Diamond formed the theory of “Geographic Luck.” His theory divulges on how it doesn’t matter the brilliance or dexterity of the native people, but the raw materials they are given. According to Jared Diamond the modern world is so unequal because of location,…