How Did The European Empires Develop Their Economic Power?

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After the XVI century, Europe had a resurgence that allowed their nations to explore the world. European nations looked for how to extend its political and military power among the world. However, economic power appears as an important matter for the Empires´ maintenance and hence, trade appeared as a tool to create such Economic control. European Empires found opportunities to develop trade in Asian countries that faced instability. Developing political agreements in order to establish monopolies was the initial stage for future trade companies’ economic expansion. However, these companies success was also founded in their ability to maintain such monopolies according to their businesses structures. The trade between East and West emerged as an alternative to developing economic alternatives after the Spanish Empire renaissance. During the XV century, The Spanish Christian Kingdoms recovered territories taken by the moors being able to establish a strong kingdom. However, this empire required a rapid recovery after exhausting resources on the war against the moors (cite). Searching new trade …show more content…

As a reference the Mughal Empire was a merely land base society, their commanders had low interest in exploring the seas (cite). Another clear reference of this thought was the Japanese society over that time. However, the biggest difference between cultures like the Mughal Empire and Japanese societies of that time was the interaction. Even though Mughal and the Banten cultures were cultures with no global perspectives, they were open to receive assistance from European countries to approach a better permanency. On the other hand, the Japanese society did not attempt to search for any foreign assistance to search order among its territory. Consequently, we found that societies but interested were the perfect framework for the establishment of the trade between East and

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