Strayer, intro to part 4

The Initial signs or Makers of the Modern World:

1. The beginnings of genuine globalization.
2. Elements of distinctly modern societies.
3. Growing European presence in world affairs.

- The Atlantic slave trade linked Africa permanently to the Western Hemisphere, the global silver trade allowed Europeans to use new world precious metals to buy their way into ancient Asian trade routes.
- The Columbian exchange is known to historians as the massive transfer of planets, animals, diseases, and people. It created networks of interaction across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
- The most obviously modern cultural development is in Europe.
- Economies centered in large cities .
- In the 18th century, Japan was one of the most urbanized societies in the world, Tokyo was the world's largest city.

A Late Agrarian Era:

- Europeans rules the Americas and controlled the world's sea routes.
- 18th century China and Japan controlled the European missionaries and merchants.
- Islam was the most common thing in Asia and Africa.



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