A History of Western Society: Printed Page 460
A History of Western Society, Value Edition: Printed Page 474
Think about the larger developments and continuities within and across chapters.
Michel de Montaigne argued that people’s assessments of what was “barbaric” merely drew on their own habits and customs; based on the earlier sections of this chapter, how widespread was this openness to cultural difference? Was he alone or did others share this view?
To what extent did the European voyages of expansion and conquest inaugurate an era of global history? Is it correct to date the beginning of “globalization” from the late fifteenth century? Why or why not?