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This 5 page paper considers how, between the years of 1560 and 1890, Europe managed to gain dominance over the rest of the world. The paper includes consideration of military supremacy through the development of weapons, the development of the colonies and the role of trade and the industrial revolution combined with political developments. The bibliography cites 4 sources.
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The Gaining of Dominance by Europe 1560 - 1890 United Kingdom, October 2001. To
Use This Report Correctly, The role of history can be seen form many perspectives, that of the victor or the looser, from a humanistic perspective, or
from the perceptive of strategy. However, when we look at the period of time between 1560 - 1890 there can be little dispute, whatever the perspective, that this was a
time of growing dominance for Europe. In many instances when we look at the tools used to increase their supremacy over the rest of the world we see that they
were not indigenous development, but adaptations of developments for older or distant civilisations. In 1560 there was a very different situation from that of 1980, by the end of
the period the dominance was established, in many respects it had come full cycle, and was declining following the beginning of the process several centuries before. We can argue
that one of the first influences was the development of the use of gunpowder and how it was utilised in weapons. It was in the latter half of the fourteenth
century and the fifteenth century that gunpowder arrived in Europe from the east. The powder was known, but it was the delays in its usage we see in the fifteenth
century indicating the way in which it was to be used in the sixteenth century. The development of warfare had been a
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