chapter 17 (491-504)

so in this chapter the person or people that first made the map placed Europe in the middle of the map while Asia was split which was obviously not correct but in there heads since Europe was the more dominating country at the time it should be in the middle. though Europe had a short moment in the world like other countries. Europe made a big impact during their short moment, they dominated the Indian ocean,they brought the native Americans diseases, Europe's scientific revolution drew upon earlier Islamic science and was stimulated by the massive amount of new information. the ideas that animated the Atlantic revolution inspired other countries to change their policies voting, equality for women. in the end the american revolution was fought for america to have freedom from the British which the got but then the freedom was only subject to white people and they kept black people slaved.