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Article: Europe and the World
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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EUROPE AND THE WORLD
EUROPE AND THE WORLD.
Between 1450 and 1789 the relationship between Europe and the rest of the world changed dramatically, as the inhabitants of what had been a poor, remote corner of Eurasia became poised to dominate the world politically, culturally, and economically. The nature and extent of this change can be traced in various ways. A world map of the mid-fifteenth century, for instance, is strikingly different from a mid-eighteenth-century map
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not only because of the amount of information available to the later mapmaker, but also in the techniques employed to display that information. The effects of European wars on the world outside Europe also ...