In the introduction of The Origins of the Modern World, Marks' instructs the reader in the elements of a non-Eurocentric study and states clearly the perspective necessary to achieve a "polycentric" world view. According to Marks a polycentric view is a description of the world with many centers. In his texts he describes how throughout the fifteenth to seventeenth century trade routes across Europe, Asia and the Middle east were not only controlled by a single particular group of people. It has been said that the Europeans dominated the world for so many years when actually each individual part of the world has developed exponentially on its own and in unison with each other creating a globally harmonized system of trade and lifestyle. The world system functioned without a central controlling or dominating force. According to Marks each of the trade circuits did have a predominating group-the Italians in the Europeans system, the Arabs in the Middle Eastern system, and the Chinese in the East Asia circuit (35). He explains that areas were policed and watched over by certain forces in their regions'. This was for the simple reason to keep goods flowing without interruption. Everyone had mutual understanding that trade was equally important around the globe. Rulers realized that trade was so valuable it could even be taxed, which made them individually appreciate it that much more. Most previous explanations of the origins of the modern world have focused on Europe and the storyline of the "rise of the West,  because for the last 150 “200 years, Europeans have, in fact, dominated the world. That led historians and others to search within Europe for the reasons for European dominance, giving rise to various theories about the extent to which Europe was a special, unique case in world history. These are "Eurocentric  explanations of the origins of the modern world. Asia dominated the "biological old regime.  As most of the world