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This 5 page thesis paper examines European commercial expansion through several centuries and concludes that the ramifications of such are broad. Some examples provided relate to France and the United States. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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Of course, throughout the twentieth century, the United States had shined and its place as the leading world power is rarely contested. Yet, much of Europe still holds its own.
With the introduction of the euro very recently it is thought that perhaps a new European empire is emerging. Whether that is true or not, Europes contribution to the world
is significant. In fact, Europe has contributed so much to its surroundings that one can say that the region is responsible for the world order as it exists now. The
thesis of this paper is in fact that Europe is central to all of history and that it shaped governments through its commercial expansion. In order to fully appreciate European
power one would have to delve back into the past and look at how it influenced the rest of the world. How did European commercial expansion change the globe exactly?
The very early 1600s was in fact a time of European commercial expansion around the world and a young attorney in Holland was offered the job of defending the actions
of the Dutch East India Company (Ryan, 1997). What was the Dutch East India Company and why was it so important? The Dutch East India company came about in
1602 as Dutch merchants in the India trade created an association under that name (Lossing, 1990). In terms of the referenced case, the company had taken control of a Portuguese
vessel and kept it as a prize (Ryan, 1997). The conquest in fact had taken place prior to the sovereign power of Holland authorizing the practice of privateering by merchant
vessels so all other European powers watched with extreme interest (1997). This case, while simply one inkling of the puzzle of just what happened during the early days of European
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