history was beginning, for example the discovery of America and the

first European enterprises in Asia. This "new age" was dominated by

the astonishing success of one civilization among many, that of

Europe. There was more and more continuous interconnection between

events in all countries, but it is to be explained by European

efforts. Europeans eventually became "masters of the globe" and they

used their mastery to make the world one. That resulted in a unity of

world history that can be detected until today. Politics,

empire-building, and military expansion were only a tiny part of what

was going on. Besides the economic integration of the globe there was

a much more important process going on: The spreading of assumptions

and ideas. The result was to be "One World." The age of independent

The history of the centuries since 1500 can be described as a

series of wars and violent struggles. Obviously men in different

countries did not like another much more than their predecessors did.

However, they were much more alike than their ancestors were, which

promoting of emigration. By 1800, Europeans had made a large

inhabitants of so called ³low countries² were already leaders in the

century was Antwerp's, though it collapsed after a few decades in

Thus, France was unable to turn to the offensive. The taxes collected

labor, and high capital investment in buildings, drainage and

and London surpassed it. In each case an important trade based on a

great change in Europe was the starting-point of modern history.

societies where a minority of landholders enjoyed great powers over a

sixteenth century. The great commercial success story of the sixteenth

community which does business -- and fights and intrigues for it --

military strategy were not as crucial to the rise of this

organization. France kept an effective and rational bureaucracy that

By the late seventeenth century. Rising populations and some assurance

was the great English South Sea Bubble. But all the time the world was

countries before 1500. As agriculture became more and more a matter of

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