Early modern Europe

establish diplomatic relations in 1519. Back in 1517, the Portuguese fleet arrived off the coast of Guangzhou. This was a great moment of symbolic importance to the Portuguese, with making the first official contact between the East Asia and Europe of the early modern period. However, just a few years later, in 1521, these relations broke down by many false rumor stories and diplomatic misunderstand that resulted in the Ming rejecting the Portuguese. Consequentially, from these stories, the Ming…

Globalization has been one of the major central theme in world History. Though there isn’t a specific definition for globalization, many school of thoughts have different ways of explaining the considerable points of what it means to be globalized. However, in the third edition of his book “the world and a very small place in Africa”, Donald R Wright presents much broader scale leading to globalization of the world by reflecting on the past shaping the present, perhaps through intercultural…

When Renaissance - the great cultural movement started in Italy - swept through Europe, marking the beginning of the Early Modern Age, science experienced a rapid progress, just as fast as the development in art, philosophy and literature. During this accelerated period of scientific advancement, or the scientific revolution, an Italian scientist, mathematician and philosopher named Galileo Galilei is considered one of the first to pave the way towards the ‘revolution’. He was “born at Pisa in…

: The Seeds of Global Civilization. Retrieved from https://blackboard.cpp.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-3238038-dt-content-rid-11845707_2/xid-11845707_2 Hillel, D. (1987). "The Agricultural Transformation," in Out of the Earth. Horvath, P. (2016, October 9). Early Agriculture in the. Retrieved from https://blackboard.cpp.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-3238038-dt-content-rid-11845715_2/courses/16F_CAG_AG101.01/15W_CAG_AG101.04_ImportedContent_20150107092447/2%20-%20Meso%20America%20%26%20The%20Americas%20Handouts.pdf…

“The famous ‘modern break with tradition’ has lasted long enough to have produced its own tradition” (Rosenberg 9). Harold Rosenberg, in his famous essay, “The Tradition of the New” (1960), brings up a fundamental aspect about artistic innovations—they eventually become part of the system they disrupted. A variation on this theme is found in one of T.S. Eliot’s most influential texts—“Tradition and Individual Talent” (1917). For Eliot, tradition is not inherited; it is produced within a network…

History of Liberia As the race to claim stake in Africa came underway in the late nineteenth century, European influence on the continent had long been felt by the indigenous people. Pre-colonial African Kingdoms had established trade with the early European explorers. As the trade relationships amongst tribes and the Europeans enhanced, the abundance of African resources such as agriculture, precious metals and more importantly slaves often left with the ships of the explorers. As time went…

artistic side as well. It allowed for the modern art movement in Europe to travel across the sea to other countries, allowing its ideals to spread. With what happened to art during the reign of Hitler it can be said that it both changed how art was seen and also showed that no powerful force could ever rid the world of art in all aspects. If it wasn’t for the Nazi party, then art wouldn’t be seen as it is today and it would be available as it is across the Europe and the United States. Adolf…

activities before the arrival of the Europeans. Whiles the section colonialGold Coast also traces the reasons for European incursion in the Gold Coast and the economic reasons for the transportation of masses of people out of Africa to various parts of Europe and the New world. The abolishing of slave trade and its…

actually set foot on North America. Mooring his ships to land he suspected to be Asia in 1492, Columbus’ discovery was a chain of islands in the Western Atlantic, today known as the West Indies, several hundred miles off the southeast coast of what is modern day Florida. In fact, of the four voyages he made across the Atlantic, he never traveled any further north than the Bahamas. Discoverer is an accurate word when referencing Columbus, but it is an inaccurate description. Using only this one…

The plague holds a unique place in history and has a tremendous influence on the development of modern civilizations. Scholars even speculated that the Roman Empire may have fallen since soldiers returning from the battle of the Persian Gulf were carriers of the plague. For quite some time, the plague has been a symbol of disaster for people living in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Not only that but since the cause of it is unknown, outbreaks contributed to massive panics where every it appeared.…