1. Globalization and Development
... . The internationalization of economic activity in Europe first took off in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with the development of new shipping technology that led to Spanish colonization of Latin America. However, the Chinese had developed better and more sophisticated technology much earlier but did not choose to use it to promote economic expansion. Similarly, the nineteenth century proved ... right to political authority over their colonies). Ideological justification for colonialism was based on the false idea that Europeans were colonizing an empty space. In some parts of ...
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