Quick History of Modern Western Civilization  Please    
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Prelude: Man began with speech, Civilization came with agriculture and writing, Industry began with fire
Transport led to Trade, then Money, Profit,  and Property and Economic Civilization
which replaced  Primitive Communism necessitated by poverty and strife.
Period

Colonization

Decolonization
Government Type
 

Monarchy
 

Move Toward Democratic Republicanism
 
Economic System
 

Mercantilism economic nationalism to build a powerful state was based on Gold.
 

Capitalism meant competition,  Managed Currency and Credit
Power Source
 

Water and Wind
 

+ Steam 
 

 + Electricity
 

 + Oil
 

+ Atom + Nature
 
Major Sources of Government Income Surfs + Borrowing + Inflation  + Tariffs   + Corporate + Income Taxes + Payroll Tax
World Conflict Participants Church and Monarchs     +Countries  + Business + Ideologies
Who Pays Most
  for Government		 Surfs + Savers + Farmers + Bankers + Business  + Corporations  
 Who Has
 Most Wealth		 Monarchs + Church + Bankers  + Business + Corporations + Finance  + Innovators + Workers
Most
Government Waste

Wars

      

+ Military Over Capacity
 + Excess Education
Major Successful Government Contribution Stability    + Infrastructure

+ Education + Sanitation
+ R&D + Universal Education

 
+ Appropriate  Education + Security
Unintended Consequences
 

Poverty

      

Dissatisfaction

What
Wealthy Fear

Anarchy