What period was more influential?

>>1091103
Industrial Revolution. The really are only two periods in human history. Before and after the Industrial revolution. It changed literally everything.

>>1091103
>>1091110
Gonna go with the industrial revolution too, though it is important to realize it was not a chance event that rested on a single invention but rather the culmination of several centuries of economic growth.

The invention of agriculture

>>1091110
But would the industrial revolution happen without the age of exploration? Spaniards,Portuguese and Dutch conected trade with every spot on earth,and started to set the examples of colonialism that have influenced the world so much.

>>1091119
IDK. But if you took someone from 1500's France and transplanted to 1600's France they could understand and assimlate better into the new era. going from 1800 to 1900 is a much bigger jump.

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>>1091119
Still has nothing on the past 200 years of invention desu.

Look at colonial possessions before 1800 though. It's not that much, Louisianna only had a couple of thousand inhabitants, africa and Asia barely touched.

>>1091126
This makes sense. But If you take an Inca from 1500 and you put it in the same place in 1600 he would have a hard time assimilating. The age of exploration shaped the world,as we know it. Things like potatoes or tobacco were introduced. And Europeans started to get more respurces from trade and the colonies,which leaded to the industrial revolution. I think that both are equally important,and the industrial revolution is just the culmination of the age of exploration.

>>1091149
The revolution started in England remember.

>>1091154
England expanded trade with India and also had colonies. And all of Europe benefited from the age of explorations. Look at the importance of potatoes in some parts of Europe like Ireland.