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.

  • sooper_dooper_roofer [none/use name]
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    11 months ago

    I doubt it, India was also in constant war as was the Middle East

    Europeans just had a giga shitload more money and more resources to finance the wars, so they won

    • captcha [any]
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      11 months ago

      You still need the permanent war though:

      1. Permanent war.
      2. Spain dumps new world gold and silver on the fire.
      3. War intensifies
      4. Capitalism finally emerges
      5. Northern Europeans start colonizing either as capitalist for-profit ventures or to escape capitalism.
        • captcha [any]
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          11 months ago

          Its cheaper than two continents of gold and silver but its not "like air". Permanent war. Always on the home front, not the frontier. Western Europe ground on for like a millennia without any empire establishing itself.