Final

I am very grateful I was able to expand my knowledge of the worlds history I learned in this class. We covered in this course the 5 major eras of homosapiems being: Paleolithic, Neolithic, ancient, classical, and modern. Although I think it is great throughout time came the spread of civilizations, I sometimes wish we were still living like the people lived in the Paleolithic period. Gathering and hunting and sharing with others. We grew from gathering/ hunting in the Paleolithic era, expanding out of Africa to more agricultural communities in the Neolithic period. What an expansion I wonder how these people felt they came out of their comfort zones to more expansive territories. I learned in the ancient era people needed to compete for wealth, status, and power. We expanded into social structures such as civilizations and city states, and we began to trade and interact with different countries. I think it is so neat how people rode on camels through the desert to trade and earn income. The enlightenment was my favorite subject we covered. With the enlightenment came the power of people being able to do things on their own. And the spread of western thought and art. I believe the writing/ reading anylsis papers expanded my world view knowledge. It was really neat learning of the Paleolithic people and coming to terms they were the first to come to America. I did find these papers challenging, but did learn something From them.

Journal #7

I am so amazed how i have read throughout this whole book. Robert Strayer does excellent work. I believe these last 4 chapters, really made the most impact to me in my journey through the ways of the world. A brief description of the different chapters Chapter 21 focused on the collapse and recovery of Europe between 1914-1970s. This set the stage for the modern world.
Chapter 22 spoke of the rise and fall of world communism- this included the great depression.
chapter 23 Independence and development. The feminist beginnings was such an incredible step towards success, today woman are equal, we can thank this to them.
chapter 24 covered globalization throughout the world helping to create more of a worldwide economic exchange.
The great depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that occured after the world war 2. people were poor and without jobs. It was a horrible time in the world. Many things also came from the great depression. A new deal by Franklin Roosevelt which sought to bring the U.S. out of this depression by creating new jobs, social security, national parks, and freeway systems are to name a few of the new technologies/ jobs to come.
The first world war brought the U.S. to center stage as a global power. Set the stage for the modern world.
I always have such a hard time reading about Adolfe Hitler and the Natzi power. this was a horrible genocide that killed millions of jews. I am jewish and my cousin Sarah was in the Holocaust. Sarah lives in Israel now, and I met sarah when i was nine, when my family and I took a trip to Israel.. Sarah still has the numbers tattoed to her arm. I also was fortunate to go to the holocaust museum this summer when i was in Israel. It is so horrible how hitler invaded Poland set up camps and just murdered many innocent people.
The last chapter speaks of the coming forth of Globalization after the great depression. This was necessary for economic renewal. we had to expand our countries globalization with other countries. Trade different produce and branch out to other countries.

Blog #6

I was really happy when i read about the Haitian Revolution. Occured (1791-1804), the haitian revolution was the first successful slave revolt in history. This helped to abolish slavery, extend the right to vote, secure greater equality for woman. I hate to know that blacks were treated with such disrespect. This past spring, i visited the Dominican Republic, with my dad we went out to do a medical mission. and found many Haitians living there.
although they still had not many rights or privlages they were not slaved. they had moved to the D.R. because of the horrible conditions in Haiti, Haiti is still facing many challanges. No rights are found there. I would like to help society become more educated on this issue.
The American Revolution was also an important event that occured in history. Leader Thomas Jefferson, within this time period new ideas of liberty, equality, freedom, religious tolerence, republicanism, and human rationality. I believe the most important revolution that was developed was Democratic revolutions which extended political rights.
In the century following the French Revolution, A huge success towards feminist beginnings took place, especially in Europe & North America. In the twentieth century, feminist thinking changed the way woman and men work, play, think, dress, worship, vote, reproduce. Woman were entering the world of education being able to go to school, instead of staying home raising children, cooking, and cleaning. I think this was my favorite spot in the reading for this week. It is incredible how today Woman are equal to men, and we have a thanks to say for the woman who declared independence.

Blog #5

The great dying killed 90% of the Native American population. Americans died from disease from the invasion of the Europeans. When America died out the Europeans brought their crops, and farm animals over, and claimed America their land. This is seen to be one of the greatest tragedies in the history of the human species.
The Scientific Revolution began in the middle decades of the sixteenth century and continued through the early part of the eighteenth century. It involved gradual developments in astronomy, physics, chemistry, and biology.With the beginnings of Scientific Revolution, scholars tried to understand the world from a natural science perspective. This no longer was claimed with faith and religion, now their was an actual scientific answer to explaining some important things. with the birth of the scientific revolution religion was changed.
the slave trade- of all the commercialties that linked the early modern world into a global network of exchange, none had more profound or enduring human consequences then the atlantic slave trade. Between the 11th and 19th century, 11 million people from Africa societies were shipped to America. they were unrespected and treated horribly. this really makes me sad that people could treat others in such a harsh manor, as well as claim them their property.

I will be conducting my research paper on same sex marriage. I will be interviewing my friends Bobby and Steven who both moved to San Francisco, from Pennsylvania, for the chance of marriage and to expand their love for one another. During my interview with Bobby and Steven I plan on asking the following questions..
1. Where did you both meet?, Did you both feel comfortable with having a relationship with one another after meeting?.
2. How was it growing up gay? What were the viewpoints of others around you- did it affect you?, When did you know you were gay, Did it affect your childhood at all?
3. What are some of the chalanges you both face as gay indivivduals.
4.When did you guys decide it was time to move- you knew it was time to get married.
5. Do you guys have support from friends and family.
6. Do you guys see yourself adopting children and building a family of your own.
7. What are your religious views? Do you have faith in god, or do you turn you back to god?
As I write this paper, and expand on my knowledge of their marriage i will accumulate more questions to ask Bobby, and Steven.

The modern highway across the Sahara desert linked Europe and North Africa, with the vast interior of West Africa. this desert trade route, helped to promote tourism, trade, and economic growth. This trade route also provided an alternative route to West African muslims making the pilgrimage to Mecca.
In these chapters both, the silk roads across Eurasia, and the trans- Saharan trade route are examples of that economic change among distant people is not a new concept. The beginnings of economic globalization lie deep in the routes of the classical era.
Trade provided  day to day work, trade also influenced the decisions of people living in these civilizations. People would generally work in creating products that were high in the trade "market", with different ecological zones- different types of production can be produced, thus leaving trade globally around the world.
Political life was a result of trade. The wealth available from controlling and taxing trade. Trade enabled  social mobility, religious ideas, technological innovations, disease/germs, and animals. The routes of trade force has historically changed the lands for eternity
A succesful culture, that has transformed all the way to todays society, was Buddhism. Buddhism started as indian civilizations, that has spread through Central Asia. Started on the silk roads. Buddhism has earned the respect to continue throughout civilizations and is still respectable today.

Dating back, to the expansion and renewal of civilization, that had occured during the second and third waives of civilization.   little fundamental change had occured. one key reason for this, was the peasants who were made to work all day for the landowners.  did not want to invest their effort in creating new forms of production where they would recieve no praise. Emotions that come up for them , would be anger and hurt,to be disrespected.  if they were not going to be gaining any wealth or power from this why should they help people who are ordering them to do without paying them or praising them. On the other hand,  landowners relied on the peasants for work, and they would earn their economic gains by selling the items that the peasant farmers made.
In the second and third era populations grew- with this the size of the states or empires that structured civilizations grew. philosophical and religious systems are the product of 2-3 waive civilizations.
During this time with the growth of civilizations is when trade force was brought into actions and people were making connections with one another for items. the Silk road trade which was a big trade force was a technological achievement, that made many societies come together and made it possible for their economical trade force. items such as wool, lace, fruits and vegetables to name a few.
The persian empire was the most impressive.
New religions came about in different civilizations. Religion is a double edged sword that both supports and undermines political authority and social elites. With this came about people with mixed feelings and did not support the authority of empires, with this came clash and a collapse of empires. When people were leaving their civilizations to get rid of "authority" many of them moved to china. In china different ways of properly gaining social order people believed in a legalist answer- this would be setting up rules and laws and having punishments for not obeying the law. another way people saw how to create social order was Daoist thinking- emphasized the importance of education and earnest striving for moral improvement and good judgement. In my own personal opinion I believe the legalist way of gaining social structure would work the best. If you had set down specific laws and rules, and without obeying them you would get punished people would understand what is right and what is wrong and what their concequence would be.

Ways of the World Chapter 1-3 brought up some real historical recaps of the first civilizations, the politicial era, discussed Civilization societies, the Paleolithic people, the development of new technologies, to name a few.
Anthropologists believe the evolutionary line of descent leading to Homosapiens came about 5.6 million years ago in the form of chimpanzes which is our closest primitive relative.
The Paleolithic era in other words known as the old stone age, is the first era known to man kind. these people had a hunting way of life, they hunted and food gathered. I find it to be serene the way these people lived. they did not expect much nor did they take much, they were known to borrow what nature had given them to use. many historians do not date back to this era, because they refer to real history as history that is written. But these people drew symbolic messages into these caves.
Agricultural beginnings were seen to be taking place in Asia, sub-saharan Africa, China, New Guinea, Mesoamerica, the Andes, and eastern North America. new technologies were discovered in this era, new ways of using animals, writing came about in this era for example. This brought together civil societies along with lineal governmental societies. People helped create the land form etc. I really enjoyed reading and learning about the beginning of times throughout the different eras.

First blog

Here is my world history blog!