Industrialization, political strength and military strength made Europe a dominant force in world events during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Industrialization, political strength and military strength made Europe a dominant force in world events during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
southern and eastern Europe
Andalusia or Mallorca Spain.
The concept of providing pensions for retired employees did not begin until the nineteenth century in Europe and did not significantly spread to the United States until the early twentieth century
Where were most of Europe's colonies by the end of the nineteenth century?
American immigration history can be viewed in four epochs: the colonial period, the mid-nineteenth century, the turn of the twentieth, and post-1965. Each epoch brought distinct national groups - and races and ethnicities - to the United States. The mid-nineteenth century saw mainly an influx from northern Europe; the early twentieth-century mainly from Southern and Eastern Europe; post-1965 mostly from Latin America and Asia.
Three words: nationalism, imperialism, industrialism. Europe was the first region to industrialize, meaning it had access to superior weaponry before anyone else. Because of the superior weapons and strong military that Europe had been developing, this allowed for Europe to imperialize other regions, Africa in particular, and allowed for a stronghold over natural resources and was able to spread its own ideologies to other countries (such as nationalism).
Scholasticism was the dominant force in Europe from the eleventh to fifteenth centuries. It was a method of critical thought that sought to reconcile faith and reason through the works of theologians such as St. Thomas Aquinas. Humanism and Neoplatonism were also influential during this time but did not hold the same level of dominance as Scholasticism.
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.
France, as Germany and Spain were crippled by fighting. Recall that the Spanish Armada is destroyed by the British and the 'Protestant Wind,' and that Germany is split into states by the Thirty Year's War, and would not be nationalized for nearly 2 more centuries. -hope that helps
Industrialisation through innovation in manufacturing processes first started with the Industrial Revolution in the north-west and midlands of England in the eighteenth century. It spread to Europe and North America in the nineteenth century, and to the rest of the world in the twentieth.
Albania is the only country in Europe to have Islam as its dominant religion.