Definitions for great divergence
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1. Great Divergence

   The Great Divergence or European miracle is the socioeconomic shift in which the Western world (i.e. Western Europe and the parts of the New World where its people became the dominant populations) overcame pre-modern growth constraints and emerged during the 19th century as the most powerful and wealthy world civilization, eclipsing Mughal India, Qing China, the Islamic World, and Tokugawa Japan. Scholars have proposed a wide variety of theories to explain why the Great Divergence happened, including geography, culture, institutions, colonialism, resources and just pure chance. There is disagreement over the nomenclature of the "great" divergence, as a clear point of beginning of a divergence is traditionally held to be the 16th or even the 15th century, with the commercial revolution and the origins of mercantilism and capitalism during the Renaissance and the Age of Discovery, the rise of the European colonial empires, proto-globalization, the Scientific Revolution, or the Age of Enlightenment. Yet the largest jump in the divergence happened in the 19th century with the Industrial Revolution and Technological Revolution. For this reason, the "California school" considers only this to be the great divergence.Technological advances, in areas such as railroads, steamboats, mining, and agriculture, were embraced to a higher degree in the West than the East during the Great Divergence. Technology led to increased industrialization and economic complexity in the areas of agriculture, trade, fuel and resources, further separating the East and the West. Western Europe's use of coal as an energy substitute for wood in the mid-19th century gave it a major head start in modern energy production. In the twentieth century, the Great Divergence peaked before the First World War and continued until the early 1970s; then, after two decades of indeterminate fluctuations, in the late 1980s it was replaced by the Great Convergence as the majority of Third World countries reached economic growth rates significantly higher than those in most First World countries.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of great divergence in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of great divergence in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of great divergence in a Sentence

1. Kristalina Georgieva:

   Last year the main focus was on the ‘Great Lockdown.’ This year we face the risk of ‘Great Divergence,’ we estimate that developing countries that have been for decades converging in income levels will be in a very tough place this time around.

References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Divergence