This Fleeting World - Modern (73-77)

Important technological advancement because it increased the scale of exchanges and ensured that new technologies, goods, and ideas circulated more freely.

• Printing Press
• Movable Type
• Semimovable Type
• Stationary Type

Allow increased specialization, encourage more precise and productive labor, along with forcing entrepreneurs to face more competition, thus stimulating innovations.

• Large Competitive Markets
• Food Surplus
• Priest Class
• Wage Workers

People that take their own labor to the market, which promoted competition amongst laborers in terms of pay scales and productivity of their labor.

• Textile Workers
• Indentured Servants
• Wage Slaves
• Wage Workers

Linking of all the world zones in the 16th century, which enlarged the scale on which goods and ideas could be exchanged, that consequently propelled commercial growth and technological innovation.

• Multiple Global Networks
• Single Global Network
• Isolationism
• Global Hegemony

Had been at the margins of the great trading systems of the agrarian era, but now found itself in early modern era at the center of the global networks of exchange because they controlled the oceangoing fleets that knit the world into a single system.

• Japan
• Eastern Europe
• Western Europe
• Egypt

Response to the torrent of new ideas pouring into Europe as a result of its expanded contacts with the rest of the world.

• Industrial Revolution
• Scientific Revolution
• Enlightenment
• Reformation

World dominance.

• Global Hegemony
• Regional Hegemony
• Globalization
• Western Europe

Accessible seams were discovered in Britain and northwestern Europe, and became the fuel of the early Industrial Revolution.

• Natural Gas
• Oil
• Coal
• Diesel