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Great Divergence

The Great Divergence or European miracle is the socioeconomic shift in which Western Europe along with former settler colonies in Northern America and Australasia overcame pre-modern growth constraints and emerged as the most powerful and wealthy world civilization, eclipsing other previously dominant or comparable Eurasian civilizations such as Qing…

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related to Further reading · 66
Great Divergence → An Historiographic Overview, Andrey, Avner Greif, Boom, Brandt, Cambridge University Press, China, Complex Systems Perspective, Convergence, Court, Culture, Debin, Diego, East, Economic History, Economic Literature, Estudos Históricos, Europe, European Review, First Great Divergence
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Great Divergence → AlmsHow, Before, Beyond DivergenceCivilization, China, CivilizationsThe Eastern Origins, Empire, Escape, Europe, Fall, Farewell, For NowThe WEIRDest People, Germs, Great ConvergenceThe Great Divergence, Great PowersThe Rise, Making, Modern World EconomyGuns, ModernityGreat Divergence, NationsWhy, Poverty, Prosperity
related to Terminology and definition · 31
Great Divergence → Asia, Bengal Subah, Britain, Broadly, California, China, Citing, Economic, Economies, Environments, Eric Jones, Europe, European, European Miracle, Geopolitics, History, Huntington, Kenneth Pomeranz, Making, Modern World Economy
related to Efficiency of markets and state intervention · 30
Great Divergence → Benjamin Disraeli, Bound, Britain, British, China, Commerce, Corn Laws, Dictionary, Economic, Europe, France, Guangzhou, In, In Europe, Japan, Manchu, McCulloch, Ottoman, Ottoman Empire, Paul Bairoch
related to India · 18
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related to Per capita income · 15
Great Divergence → East, Economic, GDP, His, Industrial Revolution, Paul Bairoch, Some, The, The West's, These, This, US, West, Western, Western European
related to New World · 14
Great Divergence → According, Americas, Asia, Chen, China, Early European, England, Europe, Europe's, European, New World, Pomeranz, The, The New World
related to Property rights · 12
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has effect · 8
Great Divergence → Although Western, American, East, European, Industrialization, Old World, The Old World, Western
related to The Black Death · 8
Great Divergence → Afro-Eurasia, Black Death, Europe, He, Historian James Belich, Koyama, Rubin, The

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Qing Chinainstance ofeclipsing other previously dominant or comparable Eurasian civilizations0.80text
Mughal Indiainstance ofeclipsing other previously dominant or comparable Eurasian civilizations0.80text
the Ottoman Empireinstance ofeclipsing other previously dominant or comparable Eurasian civilizations0.80text
Safavid Iraninstance ofeclipsing other previously dominant or comparable Eurasian civilizations0.80text
and Tokugawa Japaninstance ofeclipsing other previously dominant or comparable Eurasian civilizations0.80text
among others.Scholars have proposed a wide variety of theories to explain why the Great Divergence happenedinstance ofeclipsing other previously dominant or comparable Eurasian civilizations0.80text
including mineral depositsinstance ofeclipsing other previously dominant or comparable Eurasian civilizations0.80text
geographyinstance ofeclipsing other previously dominant or comparable Eurasian civilizations0.80text
cultureinstance ofeclipsing other previously dominant or comparable Eurasian civilizations0.80text
institutionsinstance ofeclipsing other previously dominant or comparable Eurasian civilizations0.80text
and luckinstance ofeclipsing other previously dominant or comparable Eurasian civilizations0.80text
transportationinstance ofin areas0.80text

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