What was the beginning of the modern history of the world, and which event was the beginning of the

If the question is a high school history short answer question, it can be like this.

The beginning of modern world history was the English bourgeois revolution of 1640.

Rationale: 1) From an economic point of view, the victory of the British Revolution not only enabled the rapid development of the capitalist economy in the country, making Britain the first to start the industrial revolution, but also affected other European countries.

2) From a political point of view, the English Revolution proclaimed the social and state principles of the bourgeoisie and established a new political system characterized by a republican form of government, parliamentary politics and two-party politics, which were emulated by many later bourgeois countries, and the general laws of the bourgeois revolution as expressed by the English Revolution were also confirmed in the subsequent bourgeois revolutions.

3) In terms of its influence on the world's ideological trends, it propagated advanced bourgeois thought, laid the ideological and theoretical foundation for the Enlightenment, and made outstanding contributions to the development of world fundamentalism.

Symbol: A series of major events around 1500, such as the Great Geographical Discoveries, the Renaissance, the Reformation, etc., led to the development of Western capitalism, which caused major socio-economic changes in all regions of the world, and became the beginning of modern world history.

Taking 1500 years as the upper limit of the world's modern history is a periodical limit of medieval history and modern history based on major economic changes of world significance, which is in line with the principle of historical materialism.

The beginning of modern world history was the invention of the steam engine by Watt. Since then, the world has entered a period of industrialization and entered modern history.

Traditional view: the May Fourth Movement of 1919; New perspective: The founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949.

1. Traditional view, modern history from the Opium War in 1840 to the May Fourth Movement in 1919, and modern history from the May Fourth Movement in 1919 to the founding of New China in 1949.

Because the May Fourth Movement marked that the Chinese People's Revolution had since become an ally of the proletarian world revolution and was no longer an ally of the bourgeois world revolution, that is to say, the nature of the Chinese revolution had since developed from the old democratic revolution to the new democratic revolution.

2. New perspectives, modern history from the Opium War in 1840 to the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, and modern history (contemporary history) from the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949 to the present.

Because: the founding of the People's Republic of China marked the transformation of China from a semi-colonized and half-feudal country to a completely independent country.

The Dutch Revolution of the 16th century was the beginning of modern world history, because the 16th century was the century at the beginning of the capitalist era. The beginning of the capitalist era meant that human society entered a period of drastic change from feudalism to capitalism. The disintegration of feudal relations, the acceleration of the accumulation of capital, the initial development of the capitalist mode of production, and the emergence of the bourgeoisie and its struggle with the feudal system in the economic, political, and ideological fields constitute its basic characteristics.