History

Origins of the Modern world

Robert B . Marks , The Origins of the Modern World : A Global and Ecological Narrative is a useful tool for exploring the new concepts in the History of the World and make the scholars visualize the global world from the new perspective . Mark gives an amiable account of the Industrial revolution and its direct effects on the trade networks and International trade between 1400 to 1850 , along with that he connects each element between nations involved in world trade . Marks end his history book with the events of

2001

From the beginning only Marks makes the readers understand the elements of a non-Eurocentric study and "polycentric " world -view on the major trends in the world trade . Robert B . Marks who was popular as an environmental historian of China , enlightens the historians and students of history on the development that took place between 1400 and 1900 in the modern world 's and about the important traits . In 1400 , the world especially the most advanced societies across the Eurasian continent was predominated by two basic economic structures : the one is the "biological old regime " i .e . the agriculture was dependent on the organic sources of energy with the sun 's yearly supply , and other are the trading networks . The most advanced societies of the Eurasian continent including China and England were running their economy on the similar ecological constraints of the biological old regime . He said that , During those 1100 years [650 - 1750] , the Indian Ocean was arguably the single most important crossroads of trade and generator of merchant wealth in the world . 1 In the period of just 200 years where on one hand Asians dominate the trade regime , and now these are the Western countries and Japan who are leaders in the game of economics

FOOTNOTES

1 . Marks B . Robert (2002 ) The Origins of the Modern World : A Global and Ecological Narrative , pp . 49

When The Europe introduced the Armed Trade , it had incredible impact on the Asian traders also

who endeavored to purchase their own cannons and guns . In fact Acheh built his own navy to block the Portuguese trade and capture their ships and arms . In 1500 , Acheh imported several large and well-made guns from Ottomon Empire , not only to defend themselves from the Portuguese but also to post threaten Malacca . Portuguese armed trading may have altered much in the Indian Ocean , but dar-al-Islam continued to limit what Europeans could and could not do in the world ' 1

It was in 1500 that the first time concept of Globalization became materialized when , Two new links drew the entire globe into a single world for the first time (1492 and 1571 .the first globalization '2 . Then by 1700 , England had a government that , in the words of one British historian , `was prepared to subordinate all foreign policy to economic ends '3

In the year 1775 , Asia was the maximum producer of goods in the world Asia produced about 80 of everything in the world...