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Introduction
This chapter discusses how the different nations of Europe took form after the fall of the Roman Empire and the time of massive European expansion that turned many regions of the world into colonies that supplied Europe with new sources of wealth in precious metals, raw materials, agricultural products and human slaves.
He discusses general patterns in political wars and commerce and the different ways in which the Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch and English built kingdoms that required continued expansion and that warred with each other for control of territories and commercial networks.
An important theme of the chapter is the growing role of merchants who got rich by partnering with the warlord of Europe for their mutual benefit.
Read this guide and the chapter with an eyes to identifying the five major forces we are using in our class to interpret the rise of Europe:
Predatory State = political government that uses force and legal systems to extract wealth from its own people while making war on other kingdoms, big and small
Conquest Ideology = Not a lot of it in this chapter, but it is any ideology that justifies the conquest, colonization and exploitation of other peoples and also the exploitation of one's own.
Liberated Capitalism = Making money and accumulating wealth with only the profit motive in mind at the cost of both humans and the environment. Wolf considers the merchants of this period as pre-capitalist who did not yet own the means of production. They made their money by taking the profits from the trade of goods made by others.
Unleashed individualism = Individuals who seek power and wealth for themselves, also regardless of the cost to other people and the environment. There are not a lot of specific individuals named in the chapter, but the main types are the warlords who invented the State and the merchants who grew their commercial power.
Misapplied Technology = Not mentioned a lot, but it
This chapter discusses how the different nations of Europe took form after the fall of the Roman Empire and the time of massive European expansion that turned many regions of the world into colonies that supplied Europe with new sources of wealth in precious metals, raw materials, agricultural products and human slaves.
He discusses general patterns in political wars and commerce and the different ways in which the Portuguese, Spanish, French, Dutch and English built kingdoms that required continued expansion and that warred with each other for control of territories and commercial networks.
An important theme of the chapter is the growing role of merchants who got rich by partnering with the warlord of Europe for their mutual benefit.
Read this guide and the chapter with an eyes to identifying the five major forces we are using in our class to interpret the rise of Europe:
Predatory State = political government that uses force and legal systems to extract wealth from its own people while making war on other kingdoms, big and small
Conquest Ideology = Not a lot of it in this chapter, but it is any ideology that justifies the conquest, colonization and exploitation of other peoples and also the exploitation of one's own.
Liberated Capitalism = Making money and accumulating wealth with only the profit motive in mind at the cost of both humans and the environment. Wolf considers the merchants of this period as pre-capitalist who did not yet own the means of production. They made their money by taking the profits from the trade of goods made by others.
Unleashed individualism = Individuals who seek power and wealth for themselves, also regardless of the cost to other people and the environment. There are not a lot of specific individuals named in the chapter, but the main types are the warlords who invented the State and the merchants who grew their commercial power.
Misapplied Technology = Not mentioned a lot, but it