A series of wars in the 17th and 18th centuries with the Netherlands and France left in 1707, Great Britain) the dominant colonial power in North America and India.
England was the dominant European country in the early 1600s.
Look at an early 20th century map. Austria and Germany are in the center of Europe.
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Mercantilism emerged as an economic theory in the 16th century, particularly in Europe, and influenced economic policies of various countries until the late 18th century.
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assimilate ethnic immigrant groups into the dominant culture
sick man of Europe.
Early slavs lived in Eastern and Central Europe. The first use of that word dates to the sixth century.
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In the early 4th century.
Chaldeans in seventh century