Jose Betancourt
World History 1
Patti Andrews
11/28/12
The Worlds of The
Fifteenth Century
The
world of the fifteenth century was much similar to the world of the past, but
with an emphasis in the reality of the new era or the new times with more
advances in thought around all places in the world. “Bands of hunters and
gatherers, villages of agricultural peoples, newly emerging chiefdoms or small
states, nomadic/pastoral communities, established civilizations and empires-all
of these social or political forms would have been apparent to a widely
traveled visitor in the fifteenth century”(365). Even though the world had
changed and had more technological advantages during the 15th
century there were still people that lived nomadic lives or gathering hunting lives.
Around the fifteenth century too happened something really interesting. The
reality that people by the fifteenth century lived really close to larger civilizations.
Although people lived in civilizations close to one another, people usually
identified themselves with their smaller communities.
Something
else that was very interesting about reading the chapter was that during the
fifteenth century there were competitions especially from china and the Europeans.
The competitions were mostly about the maritime voyaging and conquering. What
gave Spain (European country); an advantage over other countries was the
conquest or the voyage to the Americas during 1492. After a while china seemed
to give up on the voyaging and Europe took charge. “The most striking difference in these two cases lay in the
sharp contrast between China’s decisive ending of its voyages and the continuing,
indeed escalading, European effort, which soon brought the world’s oceans and
growing numbers of the world’s people under its control”(376). It seems that
after Europe took control of the voyaging, Europe becomes the center of the
world and a place that people yearned or aspired to go, visit, or make trade
with.
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