Question

6. Discuss gunpowder as a key contingency in the rise of Europe in early modern period.

Answer 1

It is true that the gunpowder was a landmark invention in the rise of Europe in the early modern period as this period witness various changes and this invention transforms the world and changed the geopolitical scenario of the region and also of the world in some sense. It modifies the warfare and makes it more sophisticated that spread throughout the world. Most importantly, this makes Europe powerful in warfare and became the dominant player in global geopolitics. Some of the major effects of this were as follows:

• Rise of the Ottoman Empire by changing the techniques of warfare and gunpowder helped a lot.
• European forces became powerful by the use of this type of warfare and it can be seen in the rise of the various small and big empires in this region.
• This era was known as an era of colonization and it achieved by the help of this invention that makes the European forces powerful and effective.
• This invention also led to the transformation in other wakes of life and supported many other forms of life and living in this period and we can also say that it has also a larger effect on the present world in many ways.