ch.17 documents

In today's reading the documents focuses on a certain topic and expands useful evidence and information throughout the reading. One of the document that caught my attention is the Visual Sources: Art and the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution not only changed in politics, literature, and economy, but also in the work of visual artists. Not many people appreciate and notice the art work. The pictures that are shown in the documents are about the Industrial Revolution technologiesBy the mid-nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution and a growing global empire had generated many people in Great Britain feelings of enormous pride and achievements. The exhibition, held in London, was housed in a huge modernistic structure made of iron and glass and made within nine months. This exhibition attracted more than six million guests and contained 14,000 exhibits from all around the world. The first art is called "The Machinery Department of the Crystal Palace". This illustration illustrates the iron rail factory and the high class families are being educated by the teacher. In the second picture, "The Railroad as a Symbol of the Industrial Era". The peoples of the New World lacked immunity to diseases from the Old World. Smallpox, measles, diphtheria, typhus, influenza, malaria, yellow fever, and maybe pulmonary plague caused severe declines in the population of native peoples in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies.  Similar patterns of contagion and mortality may be observed in the English and French colonies in North America. Europeans did not use disease as a tool of empire, but the spread of Old World diseases clearly undermined the ability of native peoples to resist settlement and accelerated cultural change. Also Transfer of Plants and Animals.

p.827-861

In chapter 17 the west had a rich heritage of Greek and Roman logic, science, engineering, literature, and democracy. Plato, Aristotle, Pericles, Cicero, and Julius Caesar parts of this heritage. Christianity had a core individualism, optimism, self worth, and human dignity. Medieval Europe had an infrastructure of self government and law. During this period of time the West underwent a series of shocks in the 16th century that forced a new outlook in life. The West was small, poor, and backward, so necessity was the mother of the Wests invention. Europe and Britain witnessed almost a three percent population growth from 1400 to 1800. Britain is an island and as a result Britian's industrial production increased fifty fold between 1750 and 1900. Britians ability to adapt to new sources of fuel and techniques to all areas of production gave the country a leading position for almost a hundred years. Industrilization began in New England in textiles and spread rapidly after the Civil War with the United States becoming the leading industrial power by 1914. American workers had less solidarity than their Eurpean colleagues and were less extreme even though they did not make many successful and local unions. This chapter showcases Great Britain as the leader of the Industrial revolution, proceeding in other countries and the social effects of industrialization.

Ch. 16 Atlantic Revolutions p.798-811

Strayer explains the period of 1750-1954 which was referred as the nineteenth century because that time period encompasses the growing dominance of the West in the world. The echoes of revolution was the abolition of slavery, nations, and nationalism, and feminist beginnings. The period of 1750 and 1850 were a century of revolutions, during the atlantic revolution, political revolutions occurred in  North America, France, Haiti, and Spanish South America. During the Atlantic revolution all people were inspired by Enlightenment ideas and each person attempted to form Enlightened republican governments with varying levels of success. Enlightenment ideas that shaped revolutions was Liberty, equality, free trade, religious tolerance, republicanism and popular sovereignty, and Human rationality. The Atlantic Revolution was revolutionary because the acceleration of democratic tendencies already present in the colones, lower property requirements for voting allowed more small landowners to vote and hold office, and the wielding of political participation eroded the traditional power of landed gentry.

Milk and Cookies with the sisters

Ryan Gaviola
2/9/16
World History


                                                 
                                                     Milk and Cookies

                 One event that I w was the Milk and Cookies event which  the students spent time talking with the sisters but also drinking cookies and eating which  took place February 8, 2016. We all met in the quad and I was very nervous at first but once I saw my friends and began speaking to the nuns, they were very friendly and ask so many questions such as what we planned to do after our  life, where we are from, and what we are majoring in. After the sisters me all those questions I got a chance to answer each question. We got a chance to pick what table we wanted to sit on but what impacted me was knowing some of the lives of the nuns like how much they are devoted to God and that in times of trouble they always seek God for help. I enjoyed the event a lot and I really liked the chocolate milk a lot and they had a variety of cookies to choose from and I really enjoyed both the cookies and milk. After the end of the event we got a chance to sing with the sisters which I enjoyed a lot then we helped the nuns clean up then we went back to our dorm rooms. I would like to the event next year because the nuns are so friendly and loving and I would like to hear their advice again because their advice impacts me and will help me in the near future.

p.781-797

Ryan Gaviola
2/8/16
World History



                                                            Reflection


 The consequences of the voyages of Colombus, exploration of Europeans, and empires built by European conquerors/ missionaries was that it had a significant power shift, and redefinition of interchange. Eve of Modern Early Period( 1450-1750) was that new areas of world brought into global community( Americas), rate of global trade increase. Relationships between groups changed power structure and it effected Europe which domnated trade. Food was another importat theme in this chapter because thirty percent of the world's comes from Americas which was potato and corn, corn was embraced by Africa and later in Europe, and used new world goods to pay for old world luxury items. Technological advances that helped trade was deep ships able to carry a lot weapons, compass, mapmaking, and explosives adapted to gunnery. During  the Columbian exchange native americans were affected with smallpox and measles, fifty to 80 percent casualties over 150 years, wiped out earlier civilizations, and made possible for heavy European colonization. European's had a disadvantage in this period such as indigenous warriors, fear of ottoman empire, lack of gold to fund, and lastly limited the distance of small oar propelled ships.

p.740-752 ch.15

Ryan Gaviola

                                                                 Reflection


     Martin Luther started The Protestant Reformation. Christianity was outward bound because they
were in search of Christians and spices, Missionaries and Pilgrims who spread Christianity, gender in
a change of culture, Syncretism which was Huacas and saints. In china you didn't see Christianity \
become that popular because of the Ming and the Qing. The spiritual needs of people were met
through Confucianisim, Daoism, and Buddhism. Men like Mateo Ricci did push for Christianity but
mostly focused on the Chinese elite by getting concessions. The pope wanted to push for a stronger
Christianity and it upset Emperor Kanxi. Islam also continued to expand, Sufi mystics continued to
spread through southeast Asia and to parts of Africa, Koranic scholars who continued to spread the
word, and Muslim merchants. People adopted a traditional view of Islam. Neo Confucianism was traditional Confucianism that was mixed with Buddhist and Daoist ideas. Kaozhang was a movement that rejected many Confucian principles. In China you began to see the growth of the lower and the middle class which developed the urban popular culture. In India you saw movements that challenged authority. There are many reasons why modern science is developing and the birth of modern science was due to Autonomous Universities, Madrassas and Confucian Learning, and Knowledge from other cultures.