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In this chapter something that I learned was that communism is going up and down from to today but it started in 1917. This chapter was really helpful to me because I struggle with remembering the dates of things with the event that happened that go with them. Karl Marx played big role in the bringing about of Communism. Karl Marx is the one who gave this idea a real meaning when he wrote his own Communist Manifesto in 1818. Another thing was that Communism was spoken of the behalf of and represented all over the world by the Soviet Communist International. Also Vladimir Lenin had a part in this, to when he gave his socialist party the name of "Russian Communist". The Tsar was revolted against by Russia in 1917. Another big part of this chapter was that the Chinese Communist Part was originated in 1921 by some people but most importantly by Mao Zedong. These people traveled over 6,000 miles to escape from the Guomindang government and Chiang Kai-shek. Thee peoples that were t...

In this chapter I mostly learned that over two centuries what kind of impact colonization had. Asia would soon have a lot of strain with some of the western countries because of the actions that the Europeans had. Actually something that I learned while reading this chapter that I thought was interesting was that because of the actions that were taken by the Europeans it resulted in the way that  a lot of other countries are made up today. One part of this chapter is about the Great Depression and how the increase of unemployment was the outcome of a lot of banks closing, which was something that I have never thought of until reading this chapter. Also many of the colonies were impacted greatly in a negative way because in America they were harvesting a lot more goods then they were able to have purchased which was not a good thing obviously because it did not help the value of what was being exported to reduce in value. To free themselves from overseas attentiveness the military w...

In this chapter I learned from the beginning that due to its earlier success China was a victim. Something else that I learned from this chapter was that a request for a less restricted trading relationship by the British was rejected by the Chinese emperor Qianlong in 1793. The necessity for the importation of manufactures from what they called "outside barbarians" was irrelevant to the Chinese. Another thing that I learned from reading this chapter was that in 1912 while Great Britain was still thriving China's state was collapsing. China began to have a lot of pressure be put on there starvation, small farmers, and there unemployment. Later in the chapter I learned about the Opium Wars between China and Europe. Also about the comparison between China and the Ottoman Empire because of Europe's neighbor of the Islamic civilization. Another thing that I learned while reading this chapter was that China and the Ottoman Empire were lessened because the balance of global...

In this chapter I learned a little bit more about just how greedy the British really were. The British were involved in some sort of way with a lot of various different countries but it still was never enough for them, they were always left wanting more. Before reading this I already had some idea of just how bad the British really were but after reading this chapter I have learned just how messed up they really were. All that the British wanted from Imperialism more more and more. For example they were only looking to make a profit and continue to be greedy and want more and more wealth. This kind of got me starting to think that wouldn't eventually someone become perfectly content with the amount of wealth that they have, also if not then where does it ever end. Lastly when the colonial encounters occurred in Africa the British treated the African people very poorly and the British took way to much enjoyment out of the exploiting the African people.

In this reading I learned about the Industrial Revolution.The Industrial Revolution is an era where the natural and reusable uses of labor like water, the power of animals, the labor of people, wood and wind were replaced for with things like oil, coal, natural gasses and fossil fuels. When I was reading this in this chapter it kind of baffled me because I thought that it was sort of ironic that back then we were using all of these healthier ways to have energy and then we switched to all of these more unhealthier ways thinking that we were progressing into something better. When know we are trying to go back to in our current time period like to the wind, and water as a source of energy to become more heathy. Many parts of the area were changed drastically due to this new way of acquiring energy. This would also have a huge impact on the environment. Another piece of information that I learned form this reading was that about 52 million pounds of were used in 1800 by the British texti...

Some important information that I did not learn and know about history until I read this chapter was that the abolishment of slaver occurred between 1780 and 1890. This time was when the eighteenth century enlightenment thinkers began to have their views about slavery turn highly.  There view became of the fact that it was extremely wrong to have slavery and that it was that every persons natural rights as a human were being violated. In the era of capitalism and industrialism the use of slavery was old and not a necessity. Also while reading this chapter I learned that the Haitian Revolution was a success. This revolution was in turn inspiring in a way to the extent of 3 more important rebellions took place in the British West Indies. Another thing that I learned in this reading was that humans were separated by nations with each nation having its specific independent political life and culture and territory by the end of the 20th century. Lastly the Atlantic revolution was the te...