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Whatever the importance of Asia before 1500, the modern world was created not in the East but in the West. Christopher Columbus’ journey to the New World and Vasco da Gama’s rounding of the Cape were the forerunners of a movement which culminated in the triumph of Europe’s power in the world. How such a relatively undistinguished group of Europeans ever came to lay claim to the entire world is one of the riddles of the past.
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© 1991 Helga Woodruff
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Woodruff, W. (1991). The Rise of the West. In: A Concise History of the Modern World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-12232-5_2
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