Final Post

The early modern era took place from the years 1450-1750. Throughout these years there are signs of what is to come in the modern era that we are most familiar with. Modern societies and the growing European precise in world affairs have been the most apparent elements of this time in history. The oceanic journeys of European explorers was amazing during this time. Maybe the biggest and most well known "discovery" and settlement for the Europeans during this period was that of Christopher Columbus in 1492 of the Americas. Networks were developing all around the world. Continents were trading goods and slaves now and also were sharing some unfortunate things also. The transfer of disease was devastating to small civilizations. Christianity began to be spread all throughout the world also. The list of Christian heavy nations included the Americas, China, Japan, the Philippines and central Africa. This is a very diverse religion during this period, especially since around a hundred years back it was just in Europe. With more countries and continents growing the world population skyrocketed. During this early modern era the population more than doubled. Europe finally started to recover from the Black Death and the world was able to feed bigger populations. The Americas were able to support large numbers with goods such as potatoes and corn and each area had their own resource that allowed them to grow in size. Africa did not have the luxury to grow as fluidly as the other continents sadly due to the slave trade that was happening. This era in time was allowing the world to get it's feet wet. They were learning how to grow, how to function and how to become and remain dominant. This period of growth would carry each continent, in their own manner, right into the modern era and then the snowball would grow for each of them at different rates depending on how they wanted to evolve as a people.

Thank you Professor Andrews for shedding such interesting light on our worlds history.