European Empires in the Americas Why did the European empires in the Americas have such an enormously greater impact on the conquered people than did the Chinese, Mughal and Ottoman empires in Asia on the conquered people?
Use specific examples from the reading to support your points, so that you are persuasive in making your case. The global expansion of western Europe between the 1760s and the 1870s differed in several important ways from the expansionism and colonialism of previous centuries. Along with the rise of the Industrial Revolution, which economic historians generally trace to the 1760s, and the continuing spread of industrialization in the empire-building countries came a shift in the strategy of trade with the colonial world.
