The history of the centuries since 1500 can be described as a series of wars and violent struggles. Obviously men in different countries did not like another much more than their predecessors did. One could also say that the world was Europeanized, for the period of modernization was a matter of ideas and techniques that have a European origin. A great change in Europe was the starting-point of mo

By the eighteenth century there were already present an oceanic economy and an international trading community which does business around the globe. In this economy an important and growing part was played by slaves, most of them black Africans. In Europe itself, slavery had by then all but withered away. Soon a permanent slaving station was set up in West Africa. This shows the rapid discovery of the profitability of the new traffic. It was already clear that it was a business of brutality. As the search for slaves went further inland, it became simpler to rely on local potentates who would round up captives and barter them wholesale.

The setback during World War I proves to be very significant even to present day Europe. The lack of knowledge and the dramatic effects of the war forced Europeans to learn about technology and its usage, which helped Europe to further progress into the future. It is very evident that there has been significant times of progression throughout Western history since the 1500 whether it had been rapid or gradual with few setbacks that not only hurt Europe at the time, but helped Europe to progress.

The twentieth century needs no reminders that social change can quickly follow economic change. We have little belief in the immutability of social forms and institutions. Three hundred years ago, many men and women believed them to be virtually God-given and the result was that although social changes took place in the aftermath of inflation, they were muffled by the persistence of old forms. Superficially much of European society remained unchanged between 1500 and 1800. Yet the economic realities underlying changed a great deal. Rural life had already begun to show this in some countries before 1500. As agriculture became more and more a matter of business, traditional rural society had to change. Although feudal lordship still existed in France in the 1780s, it was by then less a social reality than an economic device.

In the late sixteenth century one response to the pressure of expanding population upon slowly growing resources had been the promoting of emigration which urged further progress throughout Europe. By 1800, Europeans had made a large contribution to the peopling of new lands overseas. It was already discernible in the sixteenth century when there began the long expansion of world commerce

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