Europe's Dominance: The Impact on Global Civilizations

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Europe has had one of the strongest influences on the world. In many languages that are spoken throughout the world originate from Europe. It all started way back before 1500 when the Europeans began to colonize many parts of the world. In the book “Ecological Imperialism”, Alfred Crosby talks about many the different civilizations that have occurred throughout the world. Crosby however, mostly focuses on how much Europe had a direct impact on the rest world by basically saying that Europe was one of the most dominate forces that the world had ever seen. Crosby had a lot of evidence to support Europe on how they became powerful and able to colonize many different regions of the world. First, the climate and the climate of north America were very similar because both continents are along the same latitude. This meant that Europeans are able to grow the same crops. Their advancement in technology was also a key factor for having such massive expansion. Their ability to travel through great boats and being able to fight people off who were in their way due to their great weaponry. When you go to different parts of the world and the same
China could have also been a dominate power. China has the same climate almost as north America meaning that they could grow the same crops. They were super advanced in technology, and so many countries wanted to trade with them because they had so much to offer such as spice, silk, and many other raw materials. However, Crosby did not really make it clear who was more of a dominate power. Though Europe and China were both dominate super powers Europe was probably better at expanding their land. The reasoning is that china had way too many things going. They would have to deal with corrupt governments as well as consistently having to fight the Mongols. Though China had the ability to expand they couldn’t due to all of the distractions that they had to deal

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