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February 14 echoes of Atlantic revolutions. sugar. strayer chapter 16 "The repercussions of the Atlantic revolutions reverberated far beyond their places of origin and persisted long after those upheavals had been concluded. Britains loss of its North American colonies, for example fueled its growing interest and interventions in Asia contributing to British colonial rule in India and the opium wars in china. napoleons brief conquest of Egypt opened the way for a modernizing regime to emerge in that ancient land and stimulated westernizing reforms in the Ottoman Empire. during the nineteenth century, the idea of a constitution found advocates in Poland Latin America the Spanish ruled Philippines china the Ottoman Empire and British governed India. within Europe which was generally dominated by conservative governments following napoleons final defeat, smaller revolutionary eruptions occur3ed in 1830 more widely in 1848 and in Paris in 1870".  "they reflected ideas of...

February 12 The problem of eurocentrism Atlantic revolutions part 5 chapter 16 "During the century and a half between 1750 and 1914 sometimes referred to as the " Long nineteenth century," two new and related phenomena held center stage in the global history of humankind and represent the major themes of four chapters to follow. The first of these explored in chapters 16 and 17, it emerged from the intersection of the scientific, French and industrial revolutions, all of which took shape initially in Western Europe. those societies generated many of the transformative ideas that have guided human behavior over the past several centuries that movements toward social equality and the end of poverty was possible that ordinary people might participate in political life that nations might trump empires that women could be equal to men that slavery was no longer necessary. In the world of the Atlantic revolutions ideas born of the enlightenment generated endless controversy....

February 7 talk about the sisters and what you learned about them on founders week as well. What I learned about the founders week and also about the sisters is how much they contributed to their communities even though they all came from different backgrounds. And also how they all put their differences aside to help their communities out. I recall their was one sister that was very poor and she would help out her parents trying to get money and also help out trying to take care of her siblings while another sister was very privileged and she had  money to go to school and  also be very active with her school and community and also how they both ended up being super close when introduced to one another but at first  one of the sisters was like ehh but then she started to like her afterwards.  I gave helped my community out by giving food to the homeless and also when running into them I give  them cash if I have any in handy.

January 29 strayer, chapter 15 "While some europeans were actively attempting to spread the christian faith to distant corners of the world, others were nurturing an understanding of the cosmos at least partially at odds with traditional Christian teaching. These were the makers of Europes scientific revolution, a last intellectual and cultural transformation that took place between the mid sixteenth and early eighteenth centuries. These men of science would no longer rely on the external authority of the Bible, the church, the speculations of ancient philosophers, or the received wisdom of culture traditon. for them knowledge would be acquired through rational inquiry based on evidence, the product of human minds alone. those who created this revolution Copernicus from Poland and Galileo from Italy, Descartes from France, newton from England, and many others saw themselves as departing radically from older ways of thinking". "The old rubbish must be thrown away, wro...

 January 22, strayer, chapter 14 ( second half) chapter 14 documents The Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the americas represented the most recent large scale expression of a very widespread human practice the owning and exchange of human beings. it was present in some early gathering and hunting ties. but the practice flourished most widely in civilizations where it was generally accepted as a perfectly normal human enterprise and was closely linked to warfare and capture. before 1500, the mediterranean an Indian Ocean basins were the major areas of the old world slave trade, and southern Russia was a major source of slaves. Many African societies likewise both practiced slavery themselves and sold slaves into these international commercial networks. A trans saharan slave trade had long funneled African captives into mediterranean slavery, and an East African slave trade from at least the seventh century c.e. brought africans into the middle  east and the Indian Ocean ...

 January 17 Early modern commerce in products, strayer chapter 14 ( first half) "I have come full circle back to my destiny: from Africa to America and back to Africa. I could hear the cries and wails of my ancestors. I weep with them and for them." This is what an African American woman from Atlanta wrote in 2002 in the guest book of the cape coast castle, one of the many ports of embarkation for slaves located along the coast of Ghana in west Africa. there she no doubt saw the whips and leg irons used to discipline the captured africans as well as the windowless dungeons in which hundreds were crammed while waiting for the ships that would carry them across the Atlantic to the americas. Almost certainly she also caught sight of the infamous " Gate of no  return", through which the captives departed to their new life as slaves. The slave trade, however, was only one component of those international networks of exchange that shaped interactions during the centur...

January 15, Strayer, chapter 13 pg.572 ."Russian attention was drawn first to the grasslands south and east of the Russian heartland, an area long inhabited by various nomadic pastoral peoples, who were organized into feuding tribes and clans and adjusting to the recent disappearance of the mongol empire. from the viewpoint of the merging Russian state, the problem was security because these pastoral peoples, like the mongols before them, frequently raided their agriculture;; Russian neighbors and sold many into slavery.  To the east, across the vast expanse of Siberia, Russian motives were quite different, for the scattered peoples of its endless forests and tundra posed no threat to Russia. numbering only some 220,000 in the seventeenth century and speaking more than 100 languages, they were mostly hunting and gathering and herding people living in small scale societies and largely without access to gunpowder weapons. What does Russians across Siberia was opportuinity primari...

      January 10  Strayer,  intro to part 4 pg.546 "The early modern era", In using this term, historians are suggesting that during these three centuries we can find some initial signs or makers of the modern world, such as those described at the end of chapter 12, the beginnings of genuine globalization, elements of distinctly modern societies, and a growing European presence in world affairs. The most obvious expression of globalization, of course, lay in the oceanic journeys of European explorers and the European conquest and colonial settlement of the Americans. The Atlantic slave trade linked Africa permanently to the Western Hemisphere, while the global sliver trade allowed europeans to use new world precious metals to buy their way into ancient asian trade routes. The massive transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and people, known to historians as the columbian exchange, created wholly new networks of interaction across both the Atlantic and pacific o...

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