By the end of the 19th century, the national state was the was the focus of peoples
lives. With improvements in science and technology, a mass society was produced. It
is characterized by improved industrial production, mass consumption, working class
organization, improved urban environments, new social structures, mass education,
mass leisure time, mass transportation, and increased population, among other things.
I will explain how this "new world order" came about, and demonstrate along the way
the differences of it, to the world of 1500.
You can see signs of the start of a modern world, when you look back at the trade
routes established across the Atlantic ocean by Europeans with other countries back
in the 1500's. With these trade routes, the spreading of ideas and knowledge were
traded between different cultures. The coming of one world was inevitible. Agriculture
would go on to define economics. Improvements in its technology would be key
for enough income, and wage labor would become important as well. By the 17th
century, the bank of Amsterdam and the bank of England were economical forces.
This brought mercantilism, providing credit and finance oppurtunities, and the bill of
exchange would be used for international trade. This is also the first use of paper
instead of bullion. In the 18th century, the first European paper currencies were used.
By the 18th century, there was already an oceanic economy and an international
trading community. Slaves played an important role in economic advance, but the
slaves would not benefit from their actions, as they would have little to no rights at all
until the 20th century. Slave stations where set up in Africa, where they were often
sold by the African leaders themselves, for profit.
Powerful states, such as Spain, Sweden, the Netherlands, and the ottoman
empire, fell in rank. This brought th
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