Early Modern World, Political Transformations

The Modern era follows after the Paleolithic, Neolithic, Ancient, and Classical era around 1348 when the bubonic plague spread in Western Europe from fleas of infested rats. Strayer states that the modern experience is located in new developing cities. The more rural equals the more traditional. The great dying occured, and over ninety percent of the population passed away from disease, labor to death (slaves), and cultural genocide (forced religion, language, burning and destruction). As an effect to this, there was labor shortage and space for immigrants to come in. 

I believe that the European expansion and the conditions in which oceans were accessible lead to movements into the hands of Portugal, Spain, British, French , and Dutch settlement of  North America.   These countries all had strength as they increased their territories.   The ships allowed trade to flourish by the seventeenth century.   However, expansion and influx of population caused European and African diseases such as small-pox, measles, typhus, influenza, malaria, and yellow fever. 

          Expansion also encourage introduced slave labor, new foods crops, metals, financial profits, colonial markets.   However, I place confidence  that women and children were toiled into more slave labor when expansion progressed as the social and economy structure changed throughout the times.  This eventually led to many class divisions between the rich and the poor.  I affirmed also that global expansion damaged society as trade expoited their  workers.   I presume to be true that with the acquisition of European expansion, international trade flourished driven by exploited labor.  In my opinion, international expansion created surplus values  as exports and imports developed.Finally,  it is my opinion that  European expansion profoundly altered government,  transportation, and domestic and overseas markets.  However, expansion had its disadvantages such as worker exploitation, child labor, housing, extreme wealth and poverty, overcrowded places, and the obvious, political conflicts between the countries.