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This 3 page report discusses the fact that the key to the success of the West in creating global empires between 1500 and 1750 was dependent on the technological improvements in the ability to wage war. No bibliography.
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of Europe and Great Britain developed their superior military potential and expertise through a greater understanding of the mechanism and machinery necessary to wage truly effective warfare against less "civilized
peoples. Geoffrey Parkers book, "The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West 1500-1800" details the development of that technology and the ways in which it allowed
the West to dominate the world for two centuries. The "military revolution" in the early modern era allowed European powers to expand and form the first truly global European Empires.
Sparked by the advent of effective gunpowder weapons, this revolution brought significant changes in tactics, strategy, the size of armies, and their
impact on the societies from which they came. Added to the technological improvement in weaponry was the knowledge of the world as a much larger place but still a place
that the superior knowledge of the Europeans would allow them to find. In ocean travel, for example, Great Britain and changed the naval equation. Naval and economic--commercial-- power were
intrinsically related. For example, the more sophisticated of merchants understood the need for navies to both protect their trade and serve as conduits to get various goods back to
the "civilized" world. It appears that Parker understands that those merchants, in turn, petitioned their governments to pay for the technology, usually cannon and ships, to equip the navy. Trade
protected by navies produced profits for states which could pay for stronger navies to protect trade and add territory by force, for trading stations and bases from which the navy
could protect trade. The scientific and technological innovations brought on by the Renaissance allowed Europeans to understand the full potential of gun power,
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