Early modern Europe

business to grow, could pay back their loans with the profit, and imitated the medici by becoming patrons themselves to local artists (Detrick, “Toward the Renaissance”).This created a chain reaction, as other small businesses saw the success the early owners were having and began doing the…

In the 19th century, the idea of manifest destiny was rampant throughout America and Europe. This term describes the right for a country to extend its land and rule outside of its borders. America started imperializing later than Europe since they had to deal with the Civil War, but afterwards, America felt a strong need to start expanding. (Lynn). American Imperialism emerged as a result of the country’s ethnocentric views and their desire to join the global sphere of influence and maintain it…

After the introduction of the feudal system to Europe in the time of Charlemagne, it continued to flourish for centuries. Landlords took the place of monarch for many peasants and commoners, until around the ninth century A.D. when many places in Europe began establishing national monarchies, creating many of the modern European countries we are familiar with today. The creation of these consolidated kingdoms, along with the natural progression of social organization and technology, triggered…

The Industrial Revolution has affected the modern world profoundly. Science, technology, and engineering were leveraged for economic development. Agriculture and manufacturing were modernized. In 1780’s, the Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain. Britian pioneered industrial technology and social urban living. The country was an economic and social development model that influenced the rest of Europe after 1815. The early Industrial Revolution movements affected agriculture. Many…

many events that shaped that period the Black Death, The War of Roses, and the Great Famine of 1315 were the ones the greatly effected Europe. One of the biggest medieval disasters was the Bubonic Plague aka the Black Death.the "Black Death" or the Great Plague, originated in China in 1334 and spread along the great trade routes to Constantinople and then to Europe, where it claimed an estimated 60% of the European population (Benedictow, 2008). Entire towns were wiped out. Some contemporary…

pressure substances, this event occurred between the years of 1800´s to the early 1900´s. Europe was a country that took imperialism seriously. One of the main reasons why Europe began to expand into countries including Southeast Asia and India due to a great economic motive and for prestige. The European believed that if a country did not have colonies than the country would not be great. Another reason was that Europe had many rivalries and tried to portray as many attributes as they could.…

Ever since the early stages of contact, the East has seemed to have a bewitching appeal that has enraptured the interests and fascinations of Europe. Because cultures and societies found in the East were vastly dissimilar and detached from life in the West, the Orient served to represent a foil to Europe during the age of colonialism and imperialism – a foil so curious to Europeans, that the desire to obtain the Orient was fostered amid a time of unprecedented exploration and conquest. The birth…

American History: Beginnings to 1865, Holt McDougall states that the first people crossed the bering land bridge from Russia to modern day Alaska. Boats may have been used to cross bering strait after the land bridge disappeared. The people were ice age hunters who followed their food southward then throughout north america. The Maritime theory states that early humans traveled by boats along the west coast of the Americas, boat hopping from one place to another beginning in Russia all the…

Rituals and Festivals in Europe: What’s the point?- DBQ Essay The anxiety and eagerness with which the people of traditional Europe awaited rituals and festivals leads to the interesting question of what their true purpose in society was. Communities and members of various groups would gather to hold ceremonies covering multiple aspects of society that affected their everyday lives. Rituals can be traced back to the early churches and their original practices, but evolved over time to become…

effects were considered as positive (sparking the age of exploration, Columbian exchange) as well as negative (biological warfare, a genocide of Native Americans), but all of them were certainly significant. According to The History Channel, Columbus’ early voyage were the reason and spark to an explosion of European colonization. It’s also noted that it was possible due to Columbus navigator skills that enabled him to open the American continent before other…