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Introduction to Part 4

Introduction to Part 4

 The introduction to part four of the textbook, The Ways of the World, talks about world
population and how it doubled between 1400 and 1800, this is about 374 million to 968 million, this was
occurring even as various diseases produced a demographic catastrophe. Modern population growth
began experienced by China, Japan, and Europe as Eurasia recovered from the Black Death and
Mongol wars and as the foods of the Americas. Japan was one of the most urbanized societies in the
world, including Tokyo. They housed about more than a million inhabitants and they ranked as the
world's largest cities. As time went by, people started to go to distant markets instead of using their local
communities. There were stronger and cohesive states. Various local societies turned into larger units
while promoting trade, manufacturing and a common culture within their borders. Military power grew as
the gunpowder revolution began around the world. Withing various empires, forests fell, marshes were
drained and the hunting grounds were confiscated for farming or ranching. All of this is just an idea of the
early modern era because there is a lot more that goes into this era. Even though the Europeans ruled
the Americas, there political and military power was limited. Out of all the religions, Islam was the most
rapidly spreading faith in Asia and Africa. Animal and human muscles, wing, water provided almost all of
the energy that powered economies.

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