Part One: Our World Turned Upside Down
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Part 1
- Jul 22, 2020 #2 Our World Turned Upside Down: An Overview of 500 Years
- Aug 21, 2020 #3 The Ancient system of Globalisation: The Silk Road; Trade from East and Central Asia through Russia, and The Mediterranean
- Aug 28, 2020 #4 The Struggle for the True Religion in Europe: The Renaissance and Reformations
- Sep 4, 2020 #5 The French Revolution and the Struggles for Political Transformation
#5 The French Revolution and the Struggles for Political Transformation
By the time of the French Revolution in 1789, the Americas had been invaded, slavery had been introduced on an industrial scale and the eradication of the native populations was well underway. Africa was being denuded of its young people and the process of impoverishing India had started. The balance of the world’s power and wealth had shifted and reversed. The wealth of China, India and the rest of Asia would be radically diminished, all on a historically unprecedented scale.