一般认为,西欧的现代化进程起于16、17世纪。事实上,发生于此时的西欧经济的起飞是11世纪左右西欧生产奴隶消亡的结果。生产奴隶的消亡导致了劳动的自由化,为市场经济的孕育、诞生创造了条件;是市场经济的孕育和发展才导致了西欧资本主义的产生和英国的脱颖而出,因此,生产奴隶的消亡是西欧现代化的源头。 It is generally believed that the process of modernization in Western Europe started in the 16th and 17th centuries. In fact, the economic take-off of Western Europe that took place at this time was the result of the demise of slavery in Western Europe in the 11th century. The demise of slave production led to the liberalization of labor and created the conditions for the birth and birth of a market economy. It was the birth and development of a market economy that led to the emergence of Western European capitalism and the emergence of Britain. Therefore, the demise of slavery in production was Western Europe The source of modernization.