Early modern Europe

The early modern era helped shaped the world into what it is today. Empires rose and fell, and new advancements were made in intellectual and physical disciplines. Triangular trade however, provided the McGuffin that was needed to forge a new world order closer to the one of present day. Triangular trade did not only bring benefits; pitfalls were sandwiched in between the highpoints. Triangular trade in the early modern era brought political, economic, and cultural changes to the Old and New…

Ages” are considered to be the early part of the Middle Ages. It is known to have begun around 500 A.D and continued till 1500 A.D. Historians claim that the Early Middle Ages were dark, by citing the collapse of central control of the Roman Empire in the West. While the Roman Empire did fall in the West leading to a serious reduction of material and intellectual culture, the Empire had to fall for modern Europe to rise. Much advancement occurred during this time and Europe went through many…

The early modern world was the period from the Renaissance to the French Revolution. During the Early Modern Period the world was undergoing many changes. Humans gained awareness of science, technology had advanced considerably, and many nation states appeared during this period. The discovery of a “New World” by Columbus changed the history of the world. Colonists sought gold and silver and exploited the other resources in the New World. European colonists forced Amerindians to work on…

Summary of Sir Edward Anthony Wrigley’s work Urban Growth and Agricultural Change: England and the Continent in the Early Modern Period Sir Edward Anthony Wrigley is a well-known British demographer, who, in his paper Urban Growth and Agricultural Change: England and the Continent in the Early Modern Period, links changes in urban population to rising income per capita and agricultural productivity in economies before industrialization. In order to understand this relationship, we need to first…

it will cause you to suffer a cruel and agonizing death. During the mid-1300’s, the people of Europe were stricken with a deadly plague, later known as “The Black Death.” Many populations were completely wiped out as the Black Death swept through towns and villages leaving only death and devastation in its wake. The Black Death was one of the deadliest pandemics in human history that forever changed Europe and helped shape the world we know today. During the Middle Ages, or the medieval period…

beginning of the fourteenth century Europe seemed to have recovered from the effects of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire. The threats from Vikings, Magyars, and the Muslims were ebbing and Europe began to emerge as a dominant military, economic, and political power. Although the process of this transformation was never easy, it can be argued that Europe was now on a more solid path toward further growth and improvement. There are a number of reasons why Europe was able to remake itself.…

The Early Modern Period (1450- 1750 C.E.) brought upon the global stage many things. Increased international trade, expeditions, and colonization defined this section of history. New developments were occurring in many places, influencing future order and economic promise, even today. To start, European power grew immensely at this time. Western Europe continued to flourish, producing a series of explorers that would greatly affect both people’s scope of the world and set a new precedent for…

During the sixteenth and seventh century Europe began to grow and prosper at a much faster rate. Have you ever thought about how they advanced? About what made the Europeans travel across the Atlantic Ocean or around the Indian subcontinent? Or even how certain countries responded to the advancements being made? What about opinion based questions such as what was the most important outcome from such development in the modern world? Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth century Europeans…

Many factors contributed to the uneven growth of urban centres and culture in Europe during the period 1500-1650. This essay will consider the impact of climate change, geography, economy, religion, war, and the changing political landscape in Europe during this period. No one factor caused the changes; rather it appears to have been a combination of those mentioned above, though some may have had a greater impact than others. This is particularly true of the Protestant Reformation, which…

changed in going to the early middle ages. They did not all change at the same time. All changes occurred extremely slowly. Also, there was no announcement that everyone in antiquity has one hour to prepare for the middle ages. "Stragglers will be penalized." So: How do you know when you have antiquity, and how do you know that you are in the middle ages? One way to know that the Roman Empire is closed for business is when there is no emperor whose writ runs in western Europe, when there is no…