Brief History of Western Modernization

Abstract

During Middle Ages, European society developed in crucial ways for the West By the end of seventh century, old Western Roman lands deteriorated in government, urban life, commerce, and learning. Important advances in agriculture were made by the end of the thirteenth century. Revival of commerce in the Latin West took place by early eleventh century and European economy showed tendency to recovery. Renaissance that started in Italy first, did not adapt classics to Christianity. Instead, Renaissance humanists used the classics as inspiration and a guide to good living. Trade and industry was expanded in three grounds as the domestic system, innovations in business and patterns of commercial developments. Black slaves were brought over from West Africa as the workforce. The scientific revolution emerged in the sixteenth century and it caused a Cultural Revolution that can also be called the enlightenment. Changes in industrial organization, new technology and improvement of transportation resulted in increased production, efficiency and profits, and the increase in commerce, foreign and domestic, were all conditions which promoted the advent of the Industrial Revolution. The development and subsequent application of steam power was undoubtedly the greatest technical achievement of the Industrial Revolution.