What factors allowed Europe to begin moving ahead of the rest of the world in scientific knowledge by the end of the seventeenth century?
What will be an ideal response?
A. European factors that helped Europe to move ahead
1. global history of technology up to this time reflected consistent
Chinese superiority
a. world-shaping innovations typically happened first in China
1. printing and paper
2. gunpowder
3. crucial shipbuilding technologies
2. Western technology edged ahead in two areas – clockwork and lens-
making due to developments in astronomy
a. Jesuit mastery of astronomy was the most important of the
many technical skills with which they impressed the Chinese
b. Chinese astronomical tradition and turned the practice of star-
gazing over to the Jesuits
3. reversal in the balance of technical skill in Eurasia had begun
a. Europe ahead in mathematics and what we would now call physics
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A) to have the women strike while the men stayed on the job. B) to refuse to strike to protect their jobs. C) to have both the men and women strike together. D) to cut off all negotiations with the company. E) to drop the women from the union to protect the male workers.
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