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Chapter 18 + Documents

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I believe it was in this chapter that we say the two phases in which Europeans either conquered or colonized. In phase one, the Europeans conquered what was the north and south of America. It was the Spain/Portugal, Britain, France, and Russia who used companies to get these countries and conquer them. It was a permanent displacement of Native people and populations. In phase two we see that Asia, Africa, and Oceana (Australia) are colonized, in fact, there was a scramble for Africa. Scramble Africa was the act of many European countries wanting to take some part of Africa because of there resources, those resources being the people and the natural resources the earth had to offer. There was also the fact that many of the European companies had missionaries who were there to simply administrate the land and then leave but then there were the European people who did stay long-term. We also looked at the images 791, 790, 796, 803, and 815, on image 791 we saw an image that showed a scien...
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Chapter 23

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When I was reading this chapter I felt overwhelmed and well-informed from learning about all the global factors. The first thing the chapter pulls up with is how the global economy has changed, clearly, the economy was messed up and scrambled after World War 1 and World War II and lets did not forget how the Great Depression really messed up the system. Therefore to fix this a lot of globalization that needed to happen and as we can see on the map on page 1027, the United States, Canada, China, Japan, and many other countries were part of the global distribution of investments, these investments were from 4,000 up to 200,000. There was also the section that spoke about how feminism, it was especially interesting to hear about feminism in the south seeing as though the women in the Latin culture are very much under-appreciated and used, therefore I can see why starting movements would be hard to start down in south sense men like to belittle women. It was also interesting to read about ...
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Chapter 21

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There was a lot that was covered in this chapter, it was interesting to read about the way communism spread around the world but as I read further the chapter most focused on how communism affected Russia and China. It was also quite interesting as well that to hear that the Russian Revolution lasted one year, in the year1917, while other resolutions are way beyond one year. What I did find to be quite exciting was how communism was almost pushing feminism forward first by having more female works and secondly by having them be the face of the Chinese poster from 1960 which celebrates agriculture and industrial efforts of the Great Leap Forward. Then there was the section where it talked about the Cold War and a brief section where it spoke of the Cuban Revolution, which also quite interesting to learn about and finally the end of communism also known as the collapse of the Soviet Empire in 1989.
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The Nuremberg Laws

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Well, these sources were organized in a way where we can see the laws and the opinions on these laws. But right of the bat, I noticed that for the most part all of the laws were towards keeping the Jews "under control". Like, I remember that for the first few laws it spoke of what the Jews can and can't do and the extremity of there punishment if they were to break such Laws. Also, the frist few sources of laws were towards the Jews and the rest, if I can remember correctly, was towards the authority of those who were underage. As can be seen, this very much shows the act of fascism because it was Hitler and the Nazis that wanted to rid/control the Jews and these laws are proof of how compressed the Jews had to live.   
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Intro to Six + Chapter 20

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The intro to part six most around the most recent events of the century, mostly focusing 1914-2015. It talked about the World Wars, Revolution, Socialism, and many other events that shaped the Global Stage in which we live today. What I got out of Chapter 20 was that it talked about World War I, also known as "The Great War", it speaks about how it started and what countries were allies. Although I heard from perverse history classes it was still interesting to read about how "The Great War" affect the woman and how they had to step up. Also seeing how Europe and the Middle East were affected after World War I and how others were affected after World War II. I have also learned about The Great Depression in perves history classes but to actually see a chart of how industrial productions dropped was eye-opening. Finally reading about a witness of the Holocaust, Etty Hillesum, was very interesting as though not only was she able to write about what happened but what a...
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Chapter 19

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This chapter was interesting in the way that I was finally to see how China fit into the modern era. They believed they were the superior country and it's almost weird to see the certain types of crisis they had throughout this seeing as though they have always believed to be superior and had always thrived in the trading of silk. It was interesting to read about the Opium trade the, first seeing as though I didn't know what Opium was and learning about it, and secondly learn about the addiction problem it brought to China. The comparison between China and the Ottoman Empire was almost amazing to see how similar they were civilization was but it was there falling that was the biggest contrast. It was also interesting to hear that Japna was better at transforming into modernization than China was, and not only transforming but being able to keep it that way.
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Chapter 17

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After reading chapter 17 I found it interesting learning about all the different industrial revolutions. I was also not surprised to read that it had more or less had stated in Europe due to its society, history, and culture. I was also found the map explaining all the different railroad pathways and major industrial areas to be quite intriguing. Also learning that the middle class was the one that most benefited from industrialization was very eye-opening. Lastly, the thing that really caught my eye was the poster explaining the socialist perspective on capitalist societies. Not only was it the way of the system but the illustration was quite interesting to look at and the labels describing each social class was also quite interesting.      
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