Assignment

“The Rise of the West must be examined in global terms rather than with reference only to developments within Europe. The European success was part of a competitive race within a single global economy and a continuous global historical process of economic change. The conquest of the Americas, the commandeering of global trade and resources, and the Industrial Revolution, were all expressions of global competition whereby Europe was trying to muscle in on Asian economic dominance and by-pass the Islamic empires.” Critically discuss.