Non-European Attitudes

Also, the Romantic Movement reached America. With NY as the center of literal movement, the Romanticism quickly spread. Like the Europeans, American Romantics demonstrated a high level of moral enthusiasm, commitment to individualism and unfolding of the self, and rejected rationalism and religious intellect. Yet American Romanticism is distinctive, since Romanticism in America coincided

Because of the Industrial Revolution, many Europeans began to seek out other places and countries to colonize in and to find resources. In the 1760s natives from other lands were seen as individuals, thanks to Enlightenment thinking, and they were praised as individuals and seen as noble savages. Later, however in the 1910s the views of natives began to change and the natives began to be seen as uneducated primitives, a people who did not understand things as well as the “European mind.” During the Enlightenment, individualism was encouraged and so was the native culture of other people. William Smith (document 1) was a British soldier who was part of the troops that were able to get white prisoners back from primitive natives.

The early modern era was a time when empires thrived across the globe. The Western Europeans were not the only ones to construct successful empires either. The Russian, Chinese, Mughal, and Ottoman empires added to this phenomenon. Although these empires share many similarities, they also have their differences. During the time, 1450 CE -1750 CE, European empires in the Americas and their Russian, Chinese, Mughal, and Ottoman counterparts are similar in that they all thrived and united diverse peoples and different in that European empires developed something entirely new, an interacting Atlantic World, while the other empires continued older patterns of historical development.

Empires of the 1400's- 1800's had some major differences, but they also came along with some major similarities. This time period brought major changes to the Europe and American worlds. Once, two completely different places, now connected through conquest the of the americas or Middle East. Their conquest spread throughout land and allowed them to adopt and transform their ideas throughout the world and their realities areas. While both empires spread their land, the ottomans were less open to foreign ideas.

They smudged borders and altered allegiances to

Steam engines and Industrialization provided Europeans with vastly superior transportation: steamships, railroads, superior communications: telegraph and superior military power. The uneven power relationship that so favored Europeans made imperialism possible and hard to resist. (Lecture notes 21st October) However, by the 19th century, Europe’s dominance almost came to its end. Many factors contributed but in my opinion, it can be argued that mostly due to the competitive system and bit of industrialization, Europe’s dominance came to a decline.

Although he did not find a water route to the Indies like he had intended, he found many valuable foods native to only the New World, and he found gold which became a high demand to search for among fellow explorers and conquistadors. His findings greatly increased his country’s economy, and later the New World offered a place for religious freedom from the Roman Catholic, Protestant, and Anglican church for anyone who wanted to chose a different denomination of Christianity. Columbus also started the Columbian Exchange, which allowed the newly discovered goods from the New World to be transported and traded within and around Europe. While Christopher Columbus made many advancements towards the evolution of Europe and sea routes for trade, I still consider him a villain due to the many lives that he took, because I feel that he could have made these same advancements for Europe, but without as much bloodshed as he

The direct encounter between the European explorers and the native population had had consequences on numerous issues and their interaction led to dominance of the ideas and beliefs. In the context of Columbian Exchange, the old world, roughly consisting of the western countries gained in a number of ways-discoveries of new supply of metals and new prosperous crops and vast arable land (Qian, 2010). The consequences from their interaction gave rise to the improvement in trade as a result of exploring new routes to promote trade and the scientific exploration which eventually allowed Europe to stand out in the global system in the late 17th century. However, along with those improvements, there are many negative consequences that arose as a result of European exploration that still have devastating impacts on the world system today and which are still highly debated

Imperialism is the demonstration of extending a nation's domain through the utilization of power, colonization, or pressure. Amid the hundreds of years, vast and effective European nations, similar to Spain and England, set forth significant push to secure and run different nations and domains. For instance, the colonization and improvement of the United States was begun on the grounds that England needed to grow its realm to new regions that could give it more noteworthy force and assets. In spite of the fact that it has a genuinely straight-forward definition, imperialism is really an extremely muddled procedure that has a tendency to unravel through the span of many reasons and numerous races.

Furthermore, between the mid eighteenth century to the late nineteenth century the Industrial Revolution was responsible for creating an entirely new economic situation anxiously blended with uncertainty and complexity. While it knit the world together through insightful technological changes, industrialization also allowed for the modernisation of Euro-American societies and the bulk manufacturing of commodities and finished goods through mechanization. Synonymously it facilitated the obliteration of local environments all over the world with pollution and resource depletion and resulted in Europeans, Americans, and the Japanese dominating cultures and societies around the

Throughout the development of European history, empires rose and fell due to pressures surrounding power and prestige. Empires widened their boundaries for the benefit of gaining more religious follows, money, or political influence. Those three aspects of territorial expansion led to the diffusion of information, techniques, and power. Also, they all led to the globalization of European views and political practices. The spread of European ideals through globalization caused for other countries to reproduce European religion, politics, and societal practices.

Many events have contributed with the development of modern western society. But out of all of those one that stands out is the exploration of the New World. This created a huge impact in how things worked in European countries. With the discovery of the New World the Europeans focused on obtaining new land that had not been explored yet, and looking for resources that it could provide. Slavery had always been around since the very first civilizations but it became very big once the New World was discovered.

Advertisement and Media had significantly enhanced modernity and promoted consumerism, which evoked culture conflict in the 1920s. The nation after the great war turns into a celebratory party for the entire decade. Cities grow larger and technologies improved significantly. Lives and beliefs of those living in the cities and those from rural areas completely differ from each other. Conflicts between the new and the old had rose in the decade of prosperity.

The source connects to imperialism because Europe lays claims on land that belonged to indigenous and non-indigenous people, often resulting in war and later on political control. Next, the intended audience for Source #1 is for the

Imperialism and the spread of empire felt a new surge of importance in the second half of the 19th century. As industries began looking for new resources and markets to sell their goods, countries began to expand their economic and political power over the majority of the world. This new surge of economic conquest was the result not only of industrialism, but of nationalism and the new phenomenon known as Social Darwinism. When Charles Darwin published his work, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, many leading figures in Europe interpreted it as a justification of social class discrepancies and racial superiority. Class discrepancies and racial superiority were not new occurrences on the European Continent, but they were now backed by scientific evidence that stated