1. There is a mode of historical analysis that stresses economic factors as the dominant forces that shape historical events. In this course we have considered a variety of empires: the Mongol Empire, the Chinese Empire, the Aztec Empire, the Spanish Empire, and the Portuguese Empire, among others. Historians who stress economic analysis argue that the creation of empires hinge upon economic interests. Based upon your studies in this course would you agree? Do you believe that other factors are equally or more important?Compose a 300 word essay in which you explain your own opinion. Please use examples from Ames’s The Globe Encompassed, Marks’s The Origins of the Modern World, or the lectures from this class to support your opinion.

Also remember to use the reference from Ames’s The Globe Encompassed, Marks’s The Origins of the Modern World