This essay is composed of three parts, and the first part shows the outline of The Mediterranean and considers Braudel’ methodology. The Mediterranean consists of three parts. The first part, The Role of the Environment, deals with the geographical and environmental characters in the Mediterranean world and explains that they had definitive effects on human activities including politics and economy. The second part, Collective Destinies and General Trends, concentrates on the societies in the Mediterranean world and analyses the interactive activities among people, such as commerce, …show more content…
Of course, as there is huge difference between the British Atlantic world in the eighteenth century and the Mediterranean world in the sixteenth century due to the spread of the areas people could act around the world, historians cannot borrow Braudel’s way in the Mediterranean without caution. However, Braudel’s methodology contributes to the fruitful and interesting studies of the British Atlantic world in the eighteenth century which recreate it with interactive human activities on the both sides of the