Michelle and history

Strayer chapter 13 starts off with how Europeans had an advantage in obtaining their power. Things such as location, their ability to conquer land and voyaging through sea and on foot were all things that allowed Europeans to have a hierarchy. By Europeans understanding their location and its connection to agriculture, they tried to conquer as much land with agricultural advancement as they would. Once the America's were discovered around the 1607's, it was also seen that they were also highly valuable in that area. They also were able to excel in other areas such as trading. Most of these qualities reigned on the mindset of wanting to out power other empires and colonies. Strayer also talks about how the diseases and germs Europeans had gave them an advantage because they were the only people used to these germs. Thus, putting other races a disadvantage because their contact would allow them to get sick and pass. Though there were many factors of what caused Native America...

Strayer starts off the introduction to part four by saying how historians were able to see various present-day modernization characteristics during the early modern ear. This would suggest traits such as globalization and the social rank of the Europeans in correspondence to world affairs. Globalization and the power Europeans had played hand in hand. Strayer mentions their oceanic presence which is a huge part of globalization because Europeans were able to spread throughout the globe via voyaging and therefore were also able to conquer various land. Having this power also connected them to trading opportunities such as the Global Silver Trade. Religion was also immensely important to Europeans, however, they were also able to spread that religion thus making the presence of Christianity that much more important. Something else Strayer mentions was how Eurasia experienced setbacks such as the Black Death and Mongol Wars however these setbacks later contributed to the population ...

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