'Clash of titans: East vs. West\r'

' europium includes an im mense diversity of cultures and languages that actual side by side; Asia on the former(a) hand had been growth on its let for centuries before europium began to evolve. So how did the â€Å"peninsula of Asia”, come not just without delay a industrial-strength force in the West, scarcely a globose provide. Through the diametrical inventionicles we read, Illustrated report of europium, Roberts A History of Europe, Davies Europe: A History, Diamonds Guns, Germs, and Steel, Landes The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, and Hansons trouncing and Culture sensation can understand how and wherefore the later developing Europe became the dominate power over the already powerful Asia.\r\nThe Illustrated History of Europe calls Europe a divided continent, scarce one civilization. Europes wide plains, for example the Great Northern Plain, notwithstanding aid to an easy invasion from the east which happened numerous cartridge holders throughout Eur opes history. Europe also has a high diversity of languages, 43 in total, that were originated from Sanskrit. Because of this, Europes language, in written from, is based on a consonantal system rather than that of an ideographic system such(prenominal) as the Chinese use.\r\nThis article broke impart Europes civilization into three different bases: democracy originating from the Greeks, police coming from the Romans, and finally, the value of individualism and liberty derived from the Christians. Roberts and Davies in the main describe Europes geography and how it affected the development of the mess within. Roberts described Europe as a â€Å"peninsula of Asia”, cosmos surrounded on its boundaries, primarily by water. This was wherefore Europe was able-bodied to develop on its own.\r\nThe bodies of water, addition the plains and heavily forested inner regions, caused state to become very isolated from one another hence letting them make their own decisions and al so forming their own languages. Western Europes temperate climate aided by the Gulf Stream kept its environment modest year round, plus with the addition of a expert amount of rain made it easy to free rein without irrigation. Central and Eastern Europe were not as lucky, however, because they experienced fluctuations in temperature and rainfall.\r\nDiamond discussed how the â€Å"creation” of the distantmer through the domestication of plants and animals led to the development of guns, germs, and steel. He compared the â€Å"hunter/gather” peoples with the â€Å"food producing” peoples, to demonstrate the turn a profit of the farmer. With a farming group, one could devote ones epoch to other jobs, and and then become â€Å"specialists”. These specialists could master an art or trade instead of spending time searching for food, and eventually evolved to become the kings, bureaucrats, soldiers, priests, and artisans.\r\nThe domestications of plan ts and animals was an integral furcate of the development of the farming culture over that of the track down culture. For example, the peapod when it is ripe pull up stakes â€Å"explode” and drop its seeds onto the ground. The scarce thing left on the plant after(prenominal) this occurs are the pea pods that did not explode. Thus those were the ones which we were able to eat because they were the only ones we were able to gather. We would therefore only disperse the seeds of the â€Å"non-exploding” pea pods through our excrement or our garbage dumps.\r\nIn the end the hunter/gatherers will eventually die out because they do not have the steel to make tools as wellspring as the weapons that the farmers have and thus will, in time, be undo. Latitude played a huge eccentric in the rise of farmers in Europe. Due to the equivalent latitude throughout Europe the growing appease is relatively the same, along with a relatively embody climate. The easy spread of ge rms came about because people lived in crowded villages where a disease could simply drop dead from one household to another.\r\nPlus with the domestication of animals, the animals now lived in close quarters to the people and thus contributed to the spread of diseases. When the European explorers introduced germs to the inhering Americans, many Native Americas were killed because they didnt have the built up resistance because of the want of domesticated animals. Because of Europes close proximity to animals many of the worlds diseases have originated there. The Fertile Crescent was a very ecologically fragile area. It ended up being destroyed due to deforestation, and erosion, as well as other factors and now is mainly desert.\r\nThe Great Man guess said that a few great men can influence the events of history. One of the main cases Europe â€Å"outdid” china was because of Europe was fragmented, whereas China was totally united, this essentially meant that competiti on could flourish while in China what was said was unquestioned. Landes covered some of what was in the Roberts article as well as what was in the Davies article. He discussed the Gulf Stream and the immense forests, but he also pointed out facts about riverside civilizations. race gathered around rivers because they not only provided water, but also a mode of transportation.\r\nRiverside civilizations, because of their strategic importance were, however, more likely to have a ruler. In riverside civilizations if the ruler needed silver or more land then he would just take what they wanted from the people. As far as property goes in the West, where there was no need for riverside civilizations due to the temperate climate and abundant rainfall, there was a deep commission to private property; so much so that even kings did not take their subjects property. During the period of kB †1500 AD, five â€Å"great” inventions were made.\r\nThese inventions were deemed the â €Å"inventions of inventions”. The inventions were the mechanistic clock, gunpowder, eyeglasses, printing, and the water wheel. Gunpowder, in China was used as a defense, but in the Europeans hands it became an offensive weapon. Eyeglasses â€Å"created” an redundant work force from the many people who had measly eyesight but were in overall genuine physical condition. Printing was used to spread knowledge, so ideas no longer had to be passed by password of mouth. The water wheel became an addition source of power.\r\nThe mechanical clock, in my opinion the intimately important, kept people task oriented, and because people always want the most accurate time we kept improving upon it and it turn improved upon all inventions. This was the economic revolution, which was only comparable with(predicate) to when humans went from hunter/gatherers to food producers. Hanson stated that the reason the West fought so well was because Europeans fought for their own land. P eoples in the West had a voice in what happened, militarily and politically, whereas peoples in the east had none.\r\nAn example of this would be the strife of Salamis, the Greek soldiers got together only hours before the contend to decide if affairing this fight was really charge it. On the Persian side, however, the soldiers had no say in it, and fought that battle not necessarily wanting to fight for the cause. Due to the Wests freedom, private property, domestication of plants and animals and the movement from hunter/gatherers to food producers were all factors why the less developed Europe came to overpower the already strong Asia. If Asia had had a these â€Å"fundamentals” as did the West think how different the world would be.\r\n'