Intro to Part 4

Historians often categorized a time period to keep everything organized. The early modern era was from the years 1450-1750. In the early modern era there were signs of early beginnings of globalization and markers of the modern world. An expression of globalization can be found in the journals of the European explorers during the time of the Atlantic slave trade. Because of the slave trade, it connected a route from America to West Africa, which let trade increase, and the trade markets around the world work together. “Modernity” first appeared in Europe with the Scientific Revolution. The Scientific Revolution helped transform how people viewed the world and the understanding of traditional Christianity. Europe seemed like the most powerful continent at the time, they were not dominant in everything. China and Japan were dominant of the merchants in the market and Africa was in control of the slave trade operations.  In the next three centuries society entered an era where older agrarian societies were still being developed. Nations were not always going into the “modern” way of thinking. Instead they tried to think like the past and of early ways, and although Europe seemed promising in world leaders, they soon fell during these next three centuries.

It was interesting to read that most all continents on the east side of the world had their fare share of work. With Europe, they ruled most of the seas and Americas. With Asia, they had many merchants and operated the missionaries in Europe, and Africa conducted the slave trade. No one was dominant over anyone, except for the Americas, which at the time had no power. But the three big continents were all doing something and had their own little power within their society.