The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe. |
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... Chinese cities were much larger than their equivalents in medieval Europe , and Chinese trade routes as extensive . Paper money had ear- lier expedited the flow of commerce and the growth of markets . By the later decades of the ...
... Chinese cities were much larger than their equivalents in medieval Europe , and Chinese trade routes as extensive . Paper money had ear- lier expedited the flow of commerce and the growth of markets . By the later decades of the ...
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... Chinese emperor ; another with a Ceylonese chief who had been unwise enough not to acknowledge the supremacy of the Son of Heaven . ( It must be noted , however , that the Chinese apparently never plundered nor murdered - unlike the ...
... Chinese emperor ; another with a Ceylonese chief who had been unwise enough not to acknowledge the supremacy of the Son of Heaven . ( It must be noted , however , that the Chinese apparently never plundered nor murdered - unlike the ...
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... Chinese - American jockeying over Taiwan took attention from the lukewarm state of the Moscow - Peking axis , in which Stalin's relatively small amounts of aid to China were always tendered for a price which emphasized Russia's ...
... Chinese - American jockeying over Taiwan took attention from the lukewarm state of the Moscow - Peking axis , in which Stalin's relatively small amounts of aid to China were always tendered for a price which emphasized Russia's ...
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