The Europeans were enabled to carve out huge empires an ocean away from their homelands because of many reasons. For starters, Europeans were much closer to the Americas than they were to their potential Asian competitors. Also, groups within European society—including competing monarchs, merchants, impoverished nobles and commoners, Christian missionaries, and persecuted minorities—all had strong, if different, motivations for participating in empire building. European seafaring technology, built…
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