Rise of a Great Nation? Commentary (Special Edition)

Author: Ren Xue'an
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: The Age of Discovery around 1500 AD marked the beginning of a grand historical curtain-raising of dialogue and competition among different nations. As a result, the path to the rise of major powers gained a global coordinate. Over the past 500 years, on the grand stage of human modernization, nine world powers have successively emerged: Portugal, Spain, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, and the United States. The stories of the rise and fall of major powers have left behind distinctive development paths and lessons, inspiring the present and shaping the future.