POLI 205 Lecture 2: Week 2
16 Feb 2017
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Yes because the central powers would have ended of fighting because of similar. Central during this time was power and economic strength. Mercantilism was the use of military power to enrich your empire, the entire doctrine was about benefitting the mother (cid:272)ou(cid:374)tr(cid:455). Whe(cid:374) tradi(cid:374)g (cid:455)ou"ll tr(cid:455) to get the other (cid:272)ou(cid:374)tr(cid:455) to depe(cid:374)d o(cid:374) (cid:455)ou. Britain, spain and the dutch empire were all under this system. The thirty years war, bloodiest war and during this time sovereignty became important and non-intervention. British start moving towards free trade instead of mercantilist. This let countries become more concentrated on certain trades instead of being good at everything. Britain was a sea power therefore they could block trade routes and they can govern far away therefore their power was being projected in other place. Able to protect its own trading routes and being dominant in trading routes. At the flip side this signalled the power of the great colonial powers.
