Age of Discovery: 1400 - 1700 AD

In the sixteenth century the chief new things that we have to note
are the appearance of printed paper and the sea-worthy,
ocean-going sailing ship using the new device of the mariner's
compass. The former cheapened, spread, and revolutionized
teaching, public information and discussion, and the fundamental
operations of political activity. The latter made the round world
one. But almost equally important was the increased utilization
and improvement of guns and gunpowder which the Mongols had first
brought westward in the thirteenth century. This destroyed the
practical immunity of barons in their castles and of walled
cities. Guns swept away feudalism. Constantinople fell to guns.
Mexico and Peru fell before the terror of the Spanish guns.

>>3352243
reminder that before the European explorers, really the first relevant capitalists, took over the world we didn't have global crisis or eternal impending doom.

>>3352656
>before people around the world were connected, terrible incidents were isolated to regions
Riveting report there Chomsky

>>3352656
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Bronze_Age_collapse