Lauryn Zabat WH Spring

Empires in Collision Reversal of Fortune: China's Century of Crisis -China was one of the countries that confronted an aggressive and industrialized west -stayed independent Map of Time 1793: Chinese reject British requests for open trade 1798: Napolean invades Egypt 1830s: Famine and rebellions in Japan 1838-1842: First Opium War in China 1850-1864: Taiping Uprising in China 1856-1858: Second Opium War in China 1894-1895: Japanesse War against China 1908: Young Turk takeover in Ottoman Empire 1910: Japan annexes Korea The Crus within -China's Industrual Revolution was ine if the largest Industrial Revolutions to happen. they had a vast amount of people and a booming population and agriculture coukd nit keep up, China then had:       -unemployment       -impoverishment       -misery       -starvation -China's famed centralized and bureaucratic did not enlarge itself to keep pace with the growing population...

Chapter 23 The Transformation of the World Economy 1919-1946: League of Nations 1945: United Nations, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund Established 1960: Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries founded 1967: Six day Arab-Israeli war 1973-1974: Arab members of the OPEC place embargo on oil exports to the weat 1979: Convention to eliminate all forms of discrimination against women 1982: Sea laws introduced about uses of world oceans 1994: N. America Free Trade Network enabled 1995: World Trade Organization Created 1997: Kyoto protocol on globla warming introduced 2001: September 11 attacks on World Trade center and the Pentagon 2008: Gloal economic crisis began 2011: Osama Bin Laden killed Reglobalization: United States made the most in Foreign Investments during the late twentieth century. -After the war countries wanted to provide dramatic quickening of global economic transactions to have a "reglobalization" -After the world trade center w...

Blog: 20th Century Triple Alliance: Germany, Italy, Austro- Hungarian Empire Triple Entente: Russia, France, Britain                          - Wanted National Security "Thus a system of alliances, intended to keep peace that drew the Great Powers of Europe into a general war by early August of 1914" "The outbreak od war was sort of an accident" -started when Archuduke's assassination -wasn't planned -system od rigid alliance mafe Europe vulnerable to this kind of accident. -Europe saw world as an arena of conflict and competition among rival nation states -Great powers of Europe competed for colonies, spheres of influence and superiority. -school's media, military had convinced million sof ordinary Europeans that their identities were meaningful. Huge Rivalry: Germany and BRitian -both developed "war plans" "Hair trigger mentality" page 739 picture: women make supplies for way men are to use it and go ...

Industrial Revolution -science applied to making things we require for life -can be seen as one of the most important things that has ever happened to human societies              -How is it? How can one argue why it is so important? During class we used an example of a dressmaker before the industrial revolution versus after the industrial revolution. We found that the for the dressmaker before the industrial revolution had a lot more work to do for way less prodution than the dressmaker during the industrial revolution. Although the lady before the revolution was very happy and content with life it just was not efficient enough. But unfortunately, the lady working duirng the revolution was very unhappy. Although it was more efficient, it produced a lot more issues.  As a class we asked a few questions like what is the origin of value? and "What is the value of labor?" What was the shift of the industrial revolution? It was the replaceme...

"Problem of Eurocentrism"  - This is the bias point of view on western civilization - Schools began to only teach about western civilization - This is a big deal and still a problem today because even educators believe that the courses are to heavily based on Europe. So they changed the name from "Western Civilization" to "World History" Atlanitc Revolutions  - French                                               - North America - Haiti - Spanish "Echoes" -Still feel it surrounds you  - Impacts - Back and forth Came out after enlightenment period when we adopted the idea of popular soveirgnty, freedom/ liberty, and equality. So a lot of movements were brought out during this time, and they often worked together to become stronger and to be heard more. 

After reading this handout it really shocked me how people who come from such different backgrounds can have so many common interests. Francoise came from a much different home than Billiart. Francoise came from a rich household. Although it seemed like she had everything she still felt like her life was missing something. She then joined a covenant and became a nun. Billiart had a little harder life. She came from a poor family, and she grew up with a disability. This does not make her better than Francoise but she probably was much stronger than her considering all the things she experiences. Billiart then became a nun and got to go to school. 

During this week we went over chapter 14. We talked a lot about slave trade and the distinction of slave in different areas. In the Atlantic slave trade you could do indentured servitude which was another option for developing labor force, but you had to fulfill seven years. After the seven years you may had the chance to be deemed free. We learned that America was different. In North America you inherited status. For instance, if your family were slaves so were you. This meant less and less people wanted to move here because they did not want to get stuck with being slaves and having all the next generations follow. The African Institution is the existing economy that intensified the growing triangle of the Atlantic Trade. This created a lot of problems like racial identities.

During the second week we talked about colonization. The Europeans wanted to be close to the Indian Ocean Trade network so they took advantage of the sea roads. But China had no need to expand because they were such a high developed country. Since the rejection, the Europeans dug deeper and found the "Native Americas" They wanted to be in the trading post empire so they fled to the Filipines; because they found them weak. They did not have a strong military and a somewhat unorganized government. They had a government that consisted of a lot of small governments. Spain made it easy of the Filipinos. The Filipinos did everything they would in their everyday life before, but it would just be under different ruling. The Europeans were successful because they conquered the Filipines but they also accomplished being apart of the Indian Ocean Trade Network.

YAY! I'm done

During the first week of class we introduced ourselves to the class. We also stated everything we remembered from world history I from last semester. We made a timeline starting from the Paleolithic era to the post modern era. As a class we discovered that the Paleolithic era consisted of cave people and the Stone Age. Then there was the Neolithic Era which was considered the "New Stone Age." They established agriculture and they began to settle down more during this era. After the Neolithic Era was the Ancient Era. During during this time people started to develop the technique of writing. Next was the Classical Era and it began the idea of seminal thinkers. Seminal thinkers are people who started studying out of their comfort zone. Then as a class we recognized the European Era. This was in 1348 when the plague happened. After the plague was the Renaissance. The Renaissance was the rebirth of Classical Greek Humanism. Then after the Renaissance we went through the modern e...