AN AMAZING 150 YEARS

For 1300 plus years the world evolved at a steady rate. Developing wonderful things such as writing, agruculture and language. The 100 years from 1350 and roughly 1500 brought forth some of the greatest empires and expansion achievements ever. Every region had their own impact and important events. In the Central and East Asia Region the great Ming dybasty rose to power, around 1368, and ruled for nearly 300 years. This region also started to explore the world and discover maritime routes of their owen. In the Middle East, the expansion of the Ottoman Empire was great as they conquered Constantanople. In Europe this period may have flourished the most. After the terrible Black Death, which killed around a quarter of western Europes people, the Renaissance emerged. The rebirth of the Classical era had begun. This brought forth so much great philosophical minds and amazing art, much of which still amazes the world today. Europe also saw the Portugese set out on their own maritime voyages along the Western African coast. With so many new beginnings in Europe being reborn, Europe also saw the end of the Byzantine Empire and the rule of the Mongols in Russia during this period. The Americas saw a very impressive growth also, especially in South America where the Aztec and Inca empires developed. These empires were very unique and structured. As all know in 1492 America was "discovered". Though there were alreadt settlers on the land, the introduction of Europeans to colonize this new land and the influence of the Renaissance brought over allowed America to develop into the nation it is today. With so much maritime travel and exploration the world was becoming more connected. Trade routes were being established, relationships were developing and the idea of building your society based on what others could provide was growing. Wealthy Europeans had so many goods and money, though they had no access to some of the beautiful, earthly goods that the empires in the Americas had an abundant amount of. The unfortuante part of all this travel and trade was that greed did settle in and eventually the bigger, stronger power wanted everything and massacared all of those who stood in the way of them getting it. No matter, this 150 years of world growth seems quite amazing.