Capitalism and Culture (Ch. 23)

Experiencing the Anthropocene:

As called by scientist and other scholars, the anthropocene is the age in when humans are in charge of it all. Humans are currently impacting our environment (negatively in my opinion) and our future generations are whom will pay the prices. The major contributing factor has been the increase of population in the past 100 years which led to more demanding more from mother nature to fulfill our needs (food).

The second cause to this new era is our insist on digging up natural resources such as coal and oil in order to fulfill our desire for automobile.

Last but definitely not least is the gap between the rich and the poor. Gentrification is common as we are currently living it in the Bay Area. More and more people are becoming homeless each day and its not lack to jobs but simply because the rich are tearing down building, investing and revamping building making rent skyrocket. Plants, and animals are either disappearing or endangered due to their natural environment being disturbed.

Foundresses Week

The Sisters of Notre Dame came together to help the less fortunate all around the world. Two of the main Sisters  St. Julie Billiart and Françoise Blin de Bourdon are two very different persons but come together for a great cause. Françoise was a wealthy women and an aristocrat The French revolutionaries imprisoned and guillotined the king and the queen. Then they began executing members of the aristocracy and the clergy. Francoise was imprisoned and awaiting execution. 

Economic Transformations ( Ch. 14 Part 2)

The major concept that caught my attention in this chapter was the Atlantic Slave Trade.

Between 1500 and 1866, 12.5 million African people were shipped across the Atlantic Ocean through " the middle passage" about 85% of them were sent into the Americas. They had a short lifespan if they ever made it to their destination but about 14% of them didn't. In addition to be shipped out of their nature habitat, they were forced to leave their culture and traditions along with receiving beatings and branding and separation of families. This made me sad to learn as it instantly brought me to what is happening today with separation of  immigrant families. They might not be getting branded like an animal but they for sure are being labeled as criminals, rapist, etc.

Political Transformation (Ch.13)

European Empires in The Americans:

The Advantages:

Geography: The countries on the Atlantic rim of Europe (Portugal, Spain, Britain and France) were closer to the Americas and Asia.

Europeans weren't the first to travel the Indian Ocean, Chinese were but because European innovations included mapmaking, navigation, sailing techniques and ship design they were determined to gain access to the world.

The Great Dying: Europeans brought disease (that they were immune to) with them when they began to migrate and the Native Americans died because they weren't used to it. approximately 90% of the population.

The Little Ice Age: Extremely cold temperature primarily in the northern hemisphere. Scientist say that the cause of this was correlated to the Great dying. The Native people where whom cared for mother nature with their rituals and traditions. After their passing, no one maintained the forest therefore there was large fires, decreasing the the amounts of carbon dioxide, the greenhouse gas causing it to be so cold.

Last but not least, The Columbian Exchange was the network of communication, migration, trade, disease and transfer of plants and animals. This "exchange" was four continents connecting. The europeans brought slaves, wheat, rice, sugarcane, corn, potatoes, horses, pigs, cattle.

These are the main contributors towards what made Europe be in the lead. 

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