For different historically well-known reasons, the Modern Age began in Europe and it expanded with its political and cultural influence to other geographical areas by establishing European colonial empires, which have endured to the present day. The influence of European technological superiority is evident in society evolution, and mechanical engineering played a relevant role.
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Paz, E. B., Ceccarelli, M., Otero, J. E., & Sanz, J. L. M. (2010). Machines in the first colonial empires. In History of Mechanism and Machine Science (Vol. 10, pp. 117–139). Springer Science and Business Media B.V. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2512-8_6
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