Political Transformations

Many empires have come and gone throughout history including the Soviet Union, the european empires and many, many more. The Soviet Union collapsed along with many other empires around the world after World War II, but before all that the European empires were very significant during the 1400’s to the 1700’s. Why though, why were the Europeans so highly significant and important during that time? They brought together Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans for the first time ever, and help with globalization at that time. China also helped with globalization along with other countries bringing new religions, people, and territory into their empire. The Western Europeans expanded even more into the Americas stretching across the coasts of most of current day North and South America. They allied with the locals that they could and with the help of diseases and famine they were able to conquer the land around them. Why did the Europeans come to America rather than Asian countries? Not only did the Europeans have better maritime technology and weapons, but they also were better located. The Europeans could easily come across the Atlantic Ocean and they needed the land more than the Asian countries. The Europeans had just gone through the plague and needed a way to expand their economy and their only solution was to expand their territory.