Passage: The Age of Enlightenment, the subsequent French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars shaped the continent culturally, politically and economically from the end of the 17th century until the first half of the 19th century. The Industrial Revolution, which began in Great Britain at the end of the 18th century, gave rise to radical economic, cultural and social change in Western Europe and eventually the wider world. Vita vyote viwili vya dunia vilitokea kwa sehemu kubwa barani Ulaya, na kuchangia kupungua kwa utawala wa Ulaya Magharibi katika masuala ya ulimwengu katikati ya karne ya 20 wakati Umoja wa Kisovyeti na Marekani zilipoibuka. Wakati wa Vita Baridi, Ulaya iligawanyika kando ya Pazia la Chuma kati ya NATO Magharibi na Mkataba wa Warsaw Mashariki, hadi mapinduzi ya 1989 na kuanguka kwa Ukuta wa Berlin. Swali: Katika karne gani Ulaya Magharibi ilikuwa maarufu katika Ulaya Magharibi?
katikati ya karne ya 20