I've recently read"The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World" and want to hear what all of you think the answer is, because I feel like the book was missing something in its thesis and I am not very sure what that is.
I've recently read"The Verge: Reformation, Renaissance, and Forty Years that Shook the World" and want to hear what all of you think the answer is, because I feel like the book was missing something in its thesis and I am not very sure what that is.
bazingabrains always bleat about how only Spain colonized Americas initially, but they ignore that Spain losing their gold means England/France gaining it, and not China or Thailand
there's also maps of European innovation which show that basically all of it took place in England Germany Northern Italy France and the places inbetween. Unsurprisingly these are all places that had Atlantic access or were close enough to those places to benefit from wealth diffusion