Titlebook: A Concise History of the Modern World; 1500 to the Present William Woodruff Book 1991 Helga Woodruff 1991 capitalism.economic history.Expan

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Moral Lessons in Aeschylean Dramarld and Vasco da Gama’s rounding of the Cape were the forerunners of a movement which culminated in the triumph of Europe’s power in the world. How such a relatively undistinguished group of Europeans ever came to lay claim to the entire world is one of the riddles of the past.

預(yù)感

Lucian Fodor,Yehuda Ullmann,Monica Elmanthe fact that he began a process whereby Western man extended his influence across the entire earth. By the end of the eighteenth century most of the world’s seas and coastlines had been explored by Europeans. The first stages of global integration had been completed (see Map III).

套索

https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230304017lier by Mongols and Turks but never simultaneously on land and sea. The Japanese victory over the Russians was a clarion call to the people of Asia — especially to the Turks, the Persians, and the Indians — to rise up and shake off the fetters of European and (in the Philippines and other islands in the Pacific) American imperialism.

散開(kāi)

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-81427-4ushu, the southern island of Japan. By the mid-sixteenth century, the Chinese government having forbidden its subjects to trade directly with Japan, the Portuguese at Macao on the Chinese coast controlled the carrying trade between China and Japan. By then, the western invasion of eastern Asia by sea was underway.

心神不寧

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79088-2owing the Second World War, Africa’s dream was to free itself of alien rule and exploitation (see Map XI). Gradually, the dream came true. By 1977 the last colonial European flag had been lowered; for Africa a new age had dawned; a great future was predicted.

朦朧

Sarah E. Yagerman,David J. Goldberg of the continent had been named not after Columbus, but after another Italian, Amerigo Vespucci (1451–1512), who had sailed as far as present-day Argentina. A hundred years later the focus of European attention was still in Asia. It took a long time before Europe conceded the existence of a continent that would radically change its history.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79088-2(whose power on a world scale was now unmatched) had grown. Henceforth, the external relations of the disunited Latin American states would be greatly influenced by the policies of their more united northern neighbor.

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Pitanguy’s Technique on Rhytidoplastyupporting those claims was their will to power, their sense of racial superiority, and their superior naval technology and weaponry. Except for China and Japan, which soon shut their doors to the West, European interests and European values gradually became paramount.

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