The_Rise_Of_Capitalism_And_Western_Dominance

The Rise Of Capitalism And Western Dominance The Rise of Capitalism and Western Dominance The West seems to be the most economically stable and powerful part of the modern world. This is largely true nowadays, but it hasn’t always been the case. Before the Renaissance, the civilizations of Western Europe were by far the most ignorant, uneducated, and unhygienic in the world, compared to the flourishing societies in India and China. Therefore, it is natural for one to be curious about what factors influenced Europe’s fabulous advance in prosperity. How did Europe catch up and eventually surpass the great civilizations in the Middle East and the Orient' Why didn’t those other societies experience a similar economic revolution' Countless factors influenced this unprecedented (and as yet, unrepeated) historic phenomenon, yet it seems clear that as feudalism gradually fell apart, the birth of capitalism paved the golden road to economic growth and prosperity in Europe. Feudo-manorialism was mostly a bane to economic, scientific, and technological progress in medieval Europe. While it would be untrue to say progress didn’t happen during the time period of C. E. 1000- 1500, it would be true to say that around 90% of Europe’s population was poor and had goods, europe, guilds, capitalism, trade, progress, power, guild, middle, land, economic, china, yet, wealth, one, however, century, social, own, even, because, way, therefore, quality, production, new, making, innovation, class, capitalist, became, artisans, serfs, rosenburg, rich