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Chapter 18 covers colonial encounters in Asia and Africa. The Industrial revolution gave rise to many economic needs which were solved abroad. Many new materials and agricultural products were created during this time. This new industrialized society led to large distributions of wealth. Those of influence became known for great power. As europe advanced, race and culture changed. Charles Darwin was the man to start the social darwinism movement which became known as the destruction of unfitted races. Women during this time were expected to feed the family, and allocated their own fields for this purpose.  Because of the low wages men experienced woman would supply them with food in the cities to make up for it. Colonial development served for better or worse to help along the immigration of Asian and African economies. India became an independent country after two centuries of colonial rule and was still the worlds poorest developing country. Christianity during this time was wid...

During this period of time, the abolition of slavery and how it played an important roll in the ideas and practices of the Atlantic revolutions. Haitian people were the only ones during this time who made any strides toward political equality. The feminist movement was a big part of this time period. In the documents the French Revolution and the "rights of man" were viewed as the philosophical core of the French Revolution. There was similarities between this and the US Declaration of Independence. They also had the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789 had 14 rules that they were trying to abide by. Fredrick Douglas was the most important person during this time as he lead the abolitionist movement. He was a writer who escaped slavery and became a spokes person for African Americans. The last document focused on the rights of woman and Elizabeth Stanton. She is the reason woman today have the right to vote and she made this happen in the 1920s by being the...

In this part of the book Strayer mentions a new kind of human society and a movement which changed the course of our society all together. I found it easy to read the way Strayer described a movement of good human behavior and improvements of social equality. Most interesting, was how even though this period in time took place so long ago, it is still a conflict we deal with in our society today. We still battle with encouraging good human behavior after all of this time. Chapter 16 compared Atlantic Revolutions. The north American revolution, the french revolution, Haitian revolution and Spanish American revolutions. The north American revolution was an effort for British government to control colonies and gain money from them. It was revolutionary due to the societies that emerged within these new colonies. The french revolution brought about violence and raised the question of female political equality more explicitly than the American Revolution and differed in the way its inf...

-Francoise the first sister mentioned in the handout, came from a rich wealthy family.  -she grew up where he families peasants lived which helped her see the difference between elite and lower class and the rich and poor. -she attended school and returned home -it was thought she would follow in her families foot steps and stay home to marry and live comfortably but she decided to live her life as a virgin but did not want to become a nun -Julie another founder was from a very poor family. Her father made enough for her to attend school and she took her knowledge and taught the children what she learned who were unable to attend school themselves.  -due to the hard life of being poor along with stress, it is believed to have caused her multiple sclerosis, and medicine was not advanced in europe -these two sisters lived very different lives. When the french revolution broke out, franchise took care of her parents until her mother and grandfather passed away. ...

Religion in Early Modern Societies -The early modern era gave birth to two cultural trends, the first being the spread of christianity to asians, africans and native americans and the second was the emergence of a modern scientific outlook that challenged western christianity -science and religion was the new cultural encounter -Science was a new world view and for some, became almost a new religion The Globalization of Christianity -Christianity was largely limited to europe in the beginning of the modern era and in 1500 stretched from spain and england in the west to russia in the east -Christian world was divided between roman Catholics of western and central europe and eastern orthodox of eastern europe and russia -Reformation of the Catholic church to Protestant began in 1517 when a document was issued known as the "95 theses" which publicly invited a debate about various abuses within the church. -Protestant idea was that all vocations were of equal merit. Comm...

Early modern commerce in people -Atlantic slave trade had the most profound consequences -Between 1500-1866 the trade in human beings took about 12.5 million people from African societies and shipped them across the atlantic middle passage bringing them to america where they lived their brief lives as slaves. -Within Africa, that commerce disrupted societies and strengthened others and even corrupted some. Elites enriched themselves while slaves were victimized beyond imagination. -The profits of the slave trade enriched mostly european and euro american societies. -New world slavery was largely based on plantation agriculture for colonial america. -The origins of atlantic slavery lie in the mediterranean world with as common sweetener known as sugar. -Europeans knew nothing of sugar and relied on honey to sweeten bland diets. -African american slaves were used due to their immunity to many diseases -slave trade slowed Africa's growth in a time when other nations were expa...