Blog #18

In this chapter it describes the characteristics of the Modern era. One major characteristic is Capitalism. Capitalism is a form of organized economy and competition. Another major characteristic would be the industrial revolution. The Industrial revolution multiplied the human productivity and output. The development of clonal empires and relationships. Another big thing was the western European asserts superiority over all others. Colonial empires driven to extract recourses and the Industrial revolution and capitalism are related.  The industrial process give way to technological solutions. There is a co-equality of humans and organizations of global leadership.

Blog #17

In this chapter it talks about property rights and labor rights. private property does not constitute for anyone an absolute and unconditional right. Expropriate property means to take it from its present owner. Social mortgage is when you never really own land and that it is God's land. You can't own unlimited property if people are not flourishing. When it comes to labor, living wages are a right. When living a good life you can support yourself and or your family at a level of comfort. Work should not be a bad thing but a path to your fulfillment.

blog #15

In this chapter it describes all the struggles the west went through and the economic downfall in the Great Depression. The 20th century was a time of crisis for the wet because a lot of problems happened and a lot of things went wrong during this time period. The economy and the fall of governments challenged the core values that defined "The West". During the times of world war 1 and world war 2 the US learned that systems of alliances can be dangerous, improved tools of killing, and established organizations of global cooperation. The Holocaust was actually many small actions done by various people to kill the jews. The US learned from the Great Depression that capitalism can be very unstable if not regulated and that the regulation of economy is important. The purpose of having an economy is to supply meets demand, circulation of money, every citizen has an opportunity for a job, and to spread the wealth.

blog #14

In this chapter, it talks about the expansion of the western world to the east and why the west didn't have an impact on the Chinese. The main reason why the west had little impact on the Chinese was because the Chinese thought they were doing well without help from the western societies. China did not have a industrial revolution and many of the citizens still lived a very simple "peasant" lifestyle. The Chinese population was also growing and is now china is the most populated country.  This chapter also talks about the opium wars going on between the west and the east. The West was selling opium to the east and the Chinese community were embarrassed that they couldn't control the trade of opium.
Another society talked about in thus chapter is the Ottoman empire or better known as Turkey. The Ottoman empire didn't feel the need to be influenced by the Europeans yet European influence had taken over many nearby colonies. The Ottoman empire had "defensive modernization". They incorporated new secular policies of liberalism and this looked like a sell out to the west.

Blog #11

This section talked about the changes between eras. The Hunter Gather, Agricultural, and industrial. IN the Industrial era, Britain had a mass production of factories in cities A lot of the factories were powered by machines that used coal and some sort of combustion engine. With the rise of industrialism there was a separation of classes, High class, Middle class, and Low class. There started to became shop and factory owners and than there was the workers. High class people owned the factory while the middle class were the ones who ran it, and the low class were the labor workers who worked in the factory. Many of the workers had long hours and worked in harsh conditions while the high class reaped the profits from there products.

Blog #9

Both founders were brought up very different but had the same idea. Julie Billiart was born in a  small village and was poor, while Franciose was born to wealth and aristocracy. Franciose went to a boarding school at the age of two and Julie had a general education. Julie Billiart was bed ridden and had MS  while Franciose didn't have any major health issues. Julie taught from her bed and both were very active in society and weren't like most nun who are secluded from society.

Blog #8

In this section, it talks about the three revolutions, The American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Haitian Revolution. The French revolution was composed of the Clergy, aristocrats and the rest of the french population. The rest of the French population were fed up with how they were being mistreated and they had enough. The American Revolution fed off of the French Revolution and then the Americans started revolting. These two revolution seemed to echoed off each other, iff one was doing something, than the other would soon follow. In the Haitian Revolution, the number of slaves massively outnumbered the total amount of free people, and they revolted. This Haitian revolution was the only slave revolution that got 100% freedom for all slaves in history.

Blog #5

What I got from this section was religion and its impact. The major religions of the time were Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Islam. Christianity and islam had the idea of spreading and growing in both numbers and geography. In this section it also talks about that if you anted an era to be considered "classical", you would need to have a key seminal thinker such as Buddha or Jesus. Christianity or Catholicism is called the universal church. They leader of the faith is located in Rome and is called the Pope. Islam Began in seventh century Arabia and the figure head for this religion is Muhammad. Islam expanded for commerce and trade networking. There was a voluntary conversion but if you converted you wouldn't need to pay a special tax for non believers.

Blog #4

Their were three slave trades gong on at the time, the spanish american save trade, the Brazilian/port slave trade, and the North American Slave trade.  All of these slaves were from African Decent and were primarily used for labor. in the Spanish American slave trade, there was a lot of single men used for labor, there was a lot of racial mixing, and life was very temporary. In the Brazilian/Port  slave trade, it was African Slaves used for labor, there was racial mixing, and life was very temporary. These two slave trades are very similar when it comes to the life of a slave. The North American slave trade was very different compared to the first two. Slaves were brought by families and were intended to stay forever. They were servants and there was very little mixing between whites and slaves.

Blog #3

The economy during this time was primarily a market based economy. There was a lot of commerce between Europe and Asia with the silk trade. Because of all the surging economic growth in southern China due to the silk trade, it resulted in the loss in over half of the countries forest land. While the deforestation of China was going underway, the spanish wanted a little bit of the action in expansion so they went to and found the Philippines. The spanish Used the Philippines as a place to repair their ships. There was a lot of expansion during this time. While the Spanish were taking over the Philippines, the British decided to expand to India to exploit and develop it under British rule.

Blog #2

The siberians and the native Americans have a similarity in the way they were disposed of and how they were disposed. Siberians were taken over by Russians who killed off a lot of Siberians, while the Native Americans were targeted by the Europeans as they settled in the Americas. Both these two native societies lost a large sum of their traditional hunting grounds and were given bare necessities to live. North Americans were taxed with "soft Gold' and fur while the Siberians were taxed with fur. The Native Americans were forced to convert to Christianity while the Siberians had an incentive to convert. The way these societies were treated was unfair and unjust.

Blog #1

In the reading, it talks about early modern civilizations. It focuses on the Agrarian era and how all the developments give some validity to the notion go an early modern era. Strayer describes that the centuries in this time period a lot of energy came from some sort of animal powered machine. This goes to show how advanced and revolutionary these eras were.
Strayer also goes into detail on how the worlds population had a massive growths pert from 375 million to 968 million people. This shows how sustainable the world had become and globalization would follow. There was a lot of trade, manufacturing, and a common culture within boarders.