chapter 17 (491-504)

so in this chapter the person or people that first made the map placed Europe in the middle of the map while Asia was split which was obviously not correct but in there heads since Europe was the more dominating country at the time it should be in the middle. though Europe had a short moment in the world like other countries. Europe made a big impact during their short moment, they dominated the Indian ocean,they brought the native Americans diseases, Europe's scientific revolution drew upon earlier Islamic science and was stimulated by the massive amount of new information. the ideas that animated the Atlantic revolution inspired other countries to change their policies voting, equality for women. in the end the american revolution was fought for america to have freedom from the British which the got but then the freedom was only subject to white people and they kept black people slaved. 

science (477-488)

copernicus, galileo, descarets, and newton plus others started battling the science and religion. surprisingly  Islam generated the most advanced science so there. I find it surprisingly because Islam seems to have such strong beliefs. after it was introduced to the Europeans it evolved and became a belief of some people but religion never died. even today there are some people that believe that science is the way things work because they see the experiments and others think that god created everything. so its a touchy subject.

chapter 16 (461-477)

 The debate between science and religion is quit interesting and complicated because of course science is science and it has fact and religion is fully based on faith and a book that is man made. it seems after Christianity was accepted by people it was a very dominate religion even today there is more Christians than any other religion in the U.S. The church ran everything it mixed religion with political which i feel should never happen i mean in today's world politics are always dirty wrong and a lot of lying and as a christian you should not lie its a sin even though we do it and get forgiven for it politics and religion should still never mix. i also find it interesting that the Martin Luther's  of the world made such big changes. Its also great how slaves could adopted a religion in a new place they were brought to and couldnt even speak the language but really believe and trust in this religion as it was also used to justify what was being done to them.

chapter 15 (449-458)

Americans have always felt entitled to things that wasn't there's. even the land they live on wasn't originally theirs. They stole it from the native Americans. so the slave trade shouldn't be a big surprise them stealing people from another country to do their work. seeing the fact that I'm black the whole slavery thing bothers me even though I've been hearing about my whole life. I mean its like what type of people steal pretty much a whole race of people and make them work with no pay beat them and try to turn them against each other and then blame it on the bible or god and sleep well at night. then after they got us over here worked us to death and split us up from our families we got freed from them then they want to send us back to Africa. as if we want to go back or we don't deserve a piece of land here or at least pay. slavery was just a horrible unjust thing of the many that happen in america that i feel sometimes get downplayed or over looked.

Global Commerce 433-448

this country didn't value other human beings for a long time, and they still don't to this day because there is still slavery today just in a different form. the Atlantic slave trade was the beginning of it all. though this part isn't truly about the slave trade i just thought id throw that in there. this was mainly about the trade between countries. they traded things like cinnamon, nutmeg,mace,cloves, and pepper which was a big thing in asia. theses spices unlike today were big in the trade all the countries were trying to spices and make some of their own.  

sweet nexus:sugar and the origins of the modern world

this story about sugar is very interesting seeing the fact that now a days sugar is not that big of a deal now and then it was such a big deal. I found it interesting that Greeks were the first to encounter sugar in north western India in the fourth century. the names that it was called was quit interesting as well like the Europeans called it "honey from reeds" what ever that means haha. I'm also surprised that sugar was popular in china because their foods are really health, but it was only with the Muslim expansion after the seventh century that sugar became important. Like i said before sugar isn't that big of a deal now but back then sugar was a luxury good introduced to markets of western Asia and Europe in the later middle ages;plantations were established near the Persian Gulf and on Mediterranean islands such as Cyprus and Sicily. All the letters and things made about sugar I found kind of out outrageous because I mean really its just sugar, but I'm happy Fredrick Douglass gave recognition for their  good taste. The connection between slavery and sugar was deep and kind of angry it went all the way to the nineteenth century until it ended.   

chapter 14 strayer pg 417 430

In this chapter I learned while the the american empire was being built Russia was on top and taking shape. Russia brought Germans  Ukraine  Belorussians and Baltic people into their empire. Russian authorities demanded an oath of allegiance by which native people swore "eternal submission to the grand tsar". Americas devastating apediatrics accompanied conquest, particularly in the more remote regions of Siberia  the local people has the pox and measles. the wealth of an empire played a big role in making Russia on of the great powers of Europe in the 18th century. China build an empire with non Chinese people.   

Strayer chapter 14 pg 403-417

in this chapter we learn that Columbus wasn't as awesome as we've always been taught. it is also about  how the Europeans change helped change other societies and the Europeans pretty much ran everything. 

introduction to part 4

My thoughts on the introduction to part four is that it will be interesting to get into the modern era and how there was a conflict on what it should be called and how when it started it was unexpected that the Europeans would be the center of it and it would spread from continent to continent.