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The Spread Of European Colonization Of Europe

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It is easy to assume that, through their colonization campaigns, Europeans were responsible for the intellectual and technological advancements of much of the world. This eurocentric view is not wrong, but it does not tell the whole story. Post-Renaissance Europeans gladly spread (although mostly forced) their newfound knowledge upon those which they conquered. However, were it not for these lands (see: Southwest Asia, India, the Middle East), Europe may have never grown to prosperity. For a large chunk of its history, Europe was a “backwash.” For example, the population of Europe in its entirety was roughly 60 million in the year 1100. In contrast, the population of only the Song Dynasty in China was “100 million people” at the same time.

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