Petrarch is also known for using the vernacular language in his writing instead of Latin. His vernacular writings were later used to set the foundations of the modern Italian language.
The British East India Company played a major role in British imperialism, all because as British products flowed into India; the Indian goods we're not able to be shipped to Britain because Indian goods were outlawed in India. Soon enough the East India Company was shut down and Britain took it over and used it to sell Britain goods not Indian goods. Thus helping Britain and shutting out India.
Answer: 1) adoption of Catholic Christianity and leaving behind pagan cults in early Middle Ages, 2) Renaissance and Reformation, 3)integration of ancient wisdom of Greece and Roman to philosophy, 4) persecution of Jews, expulsion of Arabs from Europe, Greeks coming to Europe (after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453), 5) discovery and colonization of the New World and other parts of the Globe, 6) so-called Modernity with its scientific revolution in the 17th centurry, 7) Enlightenment with its various (political and scientific) including constitutionalism, 8) romanticism with its significant consequences in arts, philosophy and medicine (psychology), 9) Darwinism and social darwinism in the context of industrial revolution, 10) secularization of European societies, 11) both World Wars, 12) Cold War, 13)decolonization, 14) post-1990 information revolution and globalization of everyday life.
Explanation: globalization of European society started already in the renaissance and continued later on as well. I am excluding Russia from this development because Russia started (just in a very limited way) participating in European development at the beginning of the 18th century.
<span>The explorer's purpose was to search for a Northwest passage across North America to Asia particularly for the shipping of spices. They were not successful, but on one trip Hudson sailed into New York's harbor in 1609 and noted what an excellent harbor it was. His reports resulted in the many Dutch settlements in the area.</span>
