Was Europe isolated at the beginning of the Age of Exploration

Europeans had not been completely isolated from the rest of the world before the 1400s. ... That changed by the early 1400s. The desire to grow rich and to spread Christianity, coupled with advances in sailing technology, spurred an age of European exploration.

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assuming that by westerners you mean americans. that they were mean and controlling and abusive to its peasants.

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- "friedan's attitude towards what she calls the 'feminine mystique' is that she sees the ideal of femininity as stiffing women's potential in the 1950's. betty friedan was a writer and activist of the 1950's and 60's."

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