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Uncommon card · History
Great Divergence, an Uncommon card
The Great Divergence or European miracle is the socioeconomic shift in which Western Europe along with former settler colonies in Northern America and Australasia overcame pre-modern growth constraints and emerged as the most powerful and wealthy world civilization, eclipsing other previously dominant or comparable…
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 90
- DEF
- 97
- Power
- 187
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 110,000
Ranked #356 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Great Divergence quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Great Divergence card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
There is also disagreement about its ______.
Answer
timing. There is also disagreement about its timing. From the Great Divergence article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Novgorod Republic. Novgorod Republic 220,000 · Second Bulgarian Empire 160,000 · Great Divergence 110,000 · Korean mythology 72,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Scholars have proposed a wide variety of theories to explain why the Great Divergence happened, including mineral deposits, geography, culture, institutions, and luck.
- There is also disagreement about its timing.
- While some scholars cite the Commercial Revolution or emphasize slow, long-term structural social changes rooted in the medieval period, others point to the early modern era as the definitive beginning, citing 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…
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Great Divergence article was read about 110,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 90 and blocks with 97: each hit it takes is cut by 39 %.
How to get Great Divergence
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Great Divergence (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Kanguole, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
