First of all, talking about the Modern Age refers to Western Hemisphere. It is the age of European domination in the world. Columbus’s actions were historically significant, causing widespread change, and ef

fectively doubling the size of the known world. By Loewen, discovering America and its wealth helped European domination. He states, “Gold and silver from America replaced land as the basis for wealth and status, increasing the power of the new merchant class that would soon dominate the world” (Lies My Teacher Told Me, 69). Loewen, also, gives examples of European advancement in military technology that helped Europe in exploitation of rest of the world.

The other characteristic of Modern Age is racism and slavery. Loewen, in Lies My Teacher Told Me, states, “there were no white people in Europe before 1492. With the transatlantic slave trade, first Indian, than African, Europeans increasingly saw white as a race and race as an i

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