Money Of Mars : Warfare And Europe

One of the negative effects that is still relevant and seen around the world today is inequality. Humans never foresaw this as an outcome of farming. With farming of course you might have excess, which is great. Having more is better, but what happens when people start having more

A map and table compiled from different sources including Colin Nicolson’s The First World War, also demonstrates how militarism could have led to hard feelings, and then to war, (Doc. 11). On the map, almost every nation owned vast amounts of land, but Great Britain topped them all. Thus, feeling inadequate, the other European Nations all attempted to outdo one another at the same time. When things got out of hand, as Serbia was attempted at being colonized, a war that could have been stopped if military glorification was not so blaringly disrespectful, began. Document 7, a graph of the growth of armaments adapted from London Times History of the World, demonstrates how putting the military first could lead to misconceptions and then to war. When looking at the average growth of armaments, they grew over the years. This is because when one country obtains some, the other nations see it as a threat and follow. This misconception is just that, but is can be dangerous, and it ultimately caused so much mistrust that it became one of the underlying causes

The Great Divergence is term used to portray the gradual shift of dominance that Europe gained by establishing itself as the most powerful world civilization by the 19th century. While a case could be made that the Great Divergence occurred because of the pre-eminence of Europe and Britain, as well as their supposed superiority in invention and innovation above anywhere else in the world, this argument is flawed. A more compelling argument would be to state that it was rather through the geographical advantages that Europe obtained that lead it into eventually becoming the most powerful civilization after 1500 A.D., as this essay will strive to demonstrate.

Within this chapter Bell explains the concept of ‘The Treadmill of Production’, where capitalism 's core impulse to expand production without regard to natural limits of growth set by the biosphere. This impulse makes the process of capital accumulation inherently unsustainable and anti-ecological. According to Bell and the Treadmill of Production model, developments in technology, primarily encouraged by owners of the means of production seeking to increase profits, drive the expansion of production and consumption simultaneously. This process leads to a cycle of production demanding more production, because all sectors of society (the state, organized labour, and private capital) depend on continued economic growth to solve problems, such as unemployment generated by mechanization, which are created by growth itself. As more production is required to keep up with demand so too is the increase and acceleration of ecological demands. The advanced capitalist economies are so unsustainable because production is secured into this capitalist treadmill of never-ending expansion and growth for growth 's sake.

During the late 1700s, Adam Smith and Thomas Malthus each entered their predictions on the future of the world’s economies into the history books. In his writings in An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Smith theorized that national economies could be continuously improved by means of the division of labor, efficient production of goods, and international trade. In An Essay on the Principle of Population, Thomas Malthus predicted that the sustainable production of food in relation to population was vital to the mere existence of national economies in order to ensure an able labor force. Smith believed that the success or

Europe was a major power over the course of world history, before the rise of the United States, which was originally a British colony. As a result, many people wonder why that came to be. Why is it that Europeans became so dominant instead of the Native Americans or the Incas? Jared Diamond attempts to provide an answer to this question by writing the book Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. In this volume, Diamond describes how geography is the major reason why history became history. Using Diamond’s explanation, we can see how geography determined Europe’s fate in the approaching future.

Until sometime before 1500 A.D., European civilizations were less technologically advanced than Eastern civilizations, e.g. China. Such Eastern countries were well into what Tonio Andrade terms “the Gunpowder Age”. Modernization succeeds this age and sometime before 1500 A.D., Western civilizations gained Eastern military technology and fitted it to push them ahead in warfare and in turn, modernity. A trend in modernity in European states is an advancement of war and the accompanying technology. In looking at the 19th century, those countries that are perceived as “modern” are far ahead in war technology than those countries perceived as “pre-modern”. An example of such modernity exists in Britain in their military might. Contrasting

Jared Diamond's 'Weapons, Germs, and Steel' is an exceptionally amazing novel which uncovers the insider facts about the genuine history of the human humankind. I left away inspired by its achievement in compacting 13,000 years of mankind's history into a clear and convincing clarification of why the rate of financial advancement changed so remarkably on distinctive mainlands, without depending on culturalist or racialist contentions. Jared Diamond succeeds terrifically at demonstrating why Eurasia had gotten to be by 1500 AD (the beginning of "Europe's attack on the world") the world's most mechanically propelled landmass, a long ways in front of sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas and Australasia. In the last part, he extends the examination to question why, inside Eurasia, it was Europe that definitively overwhelmed obviously better-enriched contenders (essentially China) inside of the following four hundred years and continued to "change the world in its own picture". Be that as it may, his thought regarding the bases of imbalances between

When analyzing Europe’s global dominance, illness has been widely overlooked in retrospect to Europe’s war techniques. To illustrate why Europeans are across the globe, Crosby uses the spread of diseases as European’s primary weapon in the chapter “ills” instead of Europe’s significantly advanced technology. Crosby stated, “No single influence can have been more destructive than diseases” (98). The chapter “The Norse and The Crusaders” distinguishes that although the Norse’s weapons were stronger; it was not enough for them to improve their population. Europeans needed something stronger then force such as the ability to spread diseases along with tolerance against possible outbreaks.

The premise behind Guns, Germs, and Steel is explained with one question: why did Europeans develop faster and come to conquer other lands whereas others did not? Diamond spends the next 19 chapters using empirical data to establish a basis as to how different civilizations became so staggered developmentally. He offers an explanation based on geographical location, domestication of both food and animals, and environmental factors.

In areas where power and wealth are concentrated in the hands of a few, it is difficult for the poor to break out of the cycle of poverty that is often passed from generation to generation. Rapid population growth makes this effort even more difficult. Hunger has always been a companion to poverty. Most experts agree that the world could feed today's population, and a considerably larger number, if income were redistributed, if modern farming methods were used everywhere, if land reform policies were put into effect, if meat consumption were reduced, if non-nutritious crops were replaced by nutritious crops, and if waste and corruption were controlled. However, rapid population growth may intensify the hunger problem; in the most rapidly growing countries, population growth can reduce or eliminate food production gains resulting from modernization of farming. Population pressures may also encourage practices such as over irrigation and overuse of croplands, which undermine the capacity to feed larger numbers. In some cases, population growth is quite directly related to a social problem because it increases the absolute numbers whose needs must be

Guns, Germs, and Steel asserts that the success of different human societies can be attributed to geographical factors. According to the author’s theory, the broad strokes of history are all understandable when factors such as the presence of wheat, the width of continents, and the domesticability of an area’s wildlife are considered. Although the theory is intended to explain the global dominance of Europeans, historical details take a backdrop to science.

Jared Diamond’s ‘Guns, Germs, and Steel’ is a very astonishing novel which reveals the secrets about the true history of the human mankind. I came away impressed by its success in compressing 13,000 years of human history into a lucid and compelling explanation of why the rate of socio-economic development varied so significantly on different continents, without resorting to culturalist or racialist arguments. Jared Diamond succeeds spectacularly at proving why Eurasia had become by 1500 AD (the dawn of “Europe’s assault on the world”) the world’s most technologically advanced continent, far ahead of sub-Saharan Africa, the Americas and Australasia. In the final chapter, he extends the analysis to question why, within Eurasia, it was Europe that decisively overtook apparently better-endowed competitors (primarily China) within the next four hundred years and proceeded to “remake the world in its own image”. But his idea about the roots of inequalities between the Europeans and the Rest of the world is pretty general. His purpose for showing the general roots for inequalities is to expand on the issue and

Godrej’s “Myth 10: Growth is the Only Way” is the tenth installment of a series of articles addressing common “myths” about economics. As the title suggests, Myth 10 evaluates a common belief system stating continued economic growth is the only logical path for the future. Godrej refutes this idea, pointing out flaws in the economic growth mindset such as proliferation of hunger and poverty due to disproportional growth for the wealthiest individuals. Instead, Godrej claims, the best path for the future is to maintain a “steady-state” economy focused on stability and sustainability.

Thomas Robert Malthus is one of the most controversial figures in the history of economics. He achieved fame chiefly from the population doctrine that is now closely linked with his name. Contrary to the late-eighteenth-century views that it was possible to improve people’s living standards, Malthus held that any such improvements would cause the population to grow and thereby reverse these gains. Malthus also sparked controversy with his contemporaries on issues of methodology (by arguing that economics should be an empirical rather than a deductive science), over questions of theory (by holding that economies can experience prolonged bouts of high unemployment), and on policy issues (by arguing against free