The Final Quiz

This is the very first time I take World History. I found it very educational. Although this class had a very heavy workload; it was difficult to try to keep up with the readings while working full time, all the reading, writing and blogging took tremendous amount of time, I have gained tremendous knowledge from this course by doing so. To find out how human came about, from Old Stone Age to Modern age is priceless; in the Paleolithic era how people use stone tools to survive was impressive.  The civilization and religion rose together globally and lead to formation of communities was a phenomenon; how empires use religion to gain power and conquer others. It was interesting to learn that the Mongol conquered other empires to gain power yet they couldn’t keep it together instead benefited them with all they brought with them. The silk, sea, and sand road/world trades had strengthened the economy globally help people to connect all over the world by trading their goods. I found that Confucius teaching was very powerful and humanist, had China followed Confucius it might had been a developed country in every way. When renaissance started at about 1350-1500 Asian, Greeks, Roman with art and people believe it signified wealth and hierarchy, the purpose was used to influence other cultures through teaching. 

   It were depressive to found out how decision were made in the past such as on                                     feminism, slavery, oppression, exclusion, globally. I felt kind of relief while reading that Abolitionists sought the end of slavery; feminist tried to end, or at least mitigate, male dominance. It was great to see people try to fight for their rights and to end oppression.

I learned that history itself doesn’t change, but interpretations change from each era, century and decade; what was appropriate then may not be appropriate now; what was humanly than might not be humane now. Hence the eras, centuries were pregnant of social injustice, inequality of human life, exploitation of slaves, peasants. All those were slowly recognized during the modern era and were starting to practice human rights.

The Analysis papers were a challenge for me initially but it had help enhanced my research abilities, thoughts, brainstorming, and APA style writing. It was astonishing to me that such thing as Carbon-dating even existed and it is very effective with finding evidence. The 2014 Olympic Game in Russia had certainly made Putin’s pounder for to a second thought about giving back the rights to the Circassians.

The class debate on the significance of European renaissance and the Mongol civilization had definitely made an impacted on our memories on the history of those events. The Oppression of women exercise was impressive; while women could not speak in public, could not use pencils and could only have one text book, somehow they was intelligent enough to find a way to communicate their answers and won over men. Those were unforgettable class activities.

I also gain great knowledge by conducting the research on The Cultural Revolution. When I was in school in China I remember Maoism was still “echoing” in school even after it ended for a few years, but I did know the whole story. In school we were not taught on what went on or what was going on. Researching it made me learn about the significant historical era. I found myself saying “oh my god! I cannot believe what an evil and selfish person he was. He was the reason why China is still a developing country.” The more I read about that era the more I resent him, and I also found myself cursing him.

All the assignments were well worth doing; if I go to the natural history museum again next time I would enjoy my visit better then when I didn’t know history. I remember seeing the canoe, the homo- sapiens, the ape-like looking figure, all the different religions, animals in the Natural History museum in New York City. Thank you, Ms Andrews and classmates for a wonderful class have a great rest of your summer.

Bolg #8

These are definitely interesting chapters to read.  Wars? I am not sure if it’s necessary however,  I guess things between countries needed to be settled in some ways sadly it had to be war. World War II about Pearl Harbor was a tremendous loss for the Unites States.  How could Japanese be so sneaky to attack the United States in such a way that they were not able to fight back right away? I don’t blame the United States for dropping the atomic bomb to retaliate. Many innocent people got killed, injured and crippled for decades during that war. For people who witnessed the war they are scared for life. I know a person who witnessed Japanese attacked Hong Kong to this day he told me that he hates Japanese. I was shocked to hear that I thought that in today’s society, a New Era, The Modern world people learn to forget the pass and to forgive.  In fact, when I asked him why?  He said that he could never forget what he saw; the Japanese were raping women, killing the innocent on the street.  What more depressing than the war was the Great Depression in the late 1920’s to 1930’s. It was cause by World War I; Strayer mentioned that “Never had the instabilities of capitalism been so evident or so devastating as during the decade that followed the outbreak of the Great Depression in 1929. The American stock market crashed, Wall Street financiers committed suicide, investment dried up, people lost their life’s saving, bank closed there were no jobs (page633),”  The country’s poverty increased all and all in was a very devastating period of time.  I can’t even imagine the chaos if we were in such deep depression like it was then. Back in 2008 we were in depression, but at least there were still jobs, majority of factories were still open, and businesses were operating normally.

According to Strayer; the root of communism came from Karl Marx; the idea was to end poverty and to bring peace to the world.  Communist countries give no rights to human; they control education, as to what could be taught in school; they control economy, policies and media, such as what could or could not be shown and said to the media. For example; in China, when the country was building the dam for the Yangzse River, the government just gave their people a deadline to move and the people have no-say-so. I was glad that there was a feminist movement that they were pushing for the women’s rights as Stayer had mentioned that new communist regimes were efforts at liberating and mobilizing the women by organizing multiple meetings such as to train them to operate a day-care center, medical clinics, published newspapers and magazines that target at female readers, they gave education and prenatal classes and encouraged Muslim women to take off their veils. All that I thought it was great that women have a movement to stand-up for themselves unfortunately, that didn’t last long.

Industrial Globalization sounds like a good term that would help strengthen the world’s economy.  On the other hand, it weakened the United States’ job market. It had caused unemployment rate to increase in the U.S. since the United States decided to have thing make overseas; such as machines, electronic parts, clothing etc. Most recently the solar panels that are made in China are half the price at the ones made in the U.S. that accounts for many layoffs in the solar panel factories and possibly closing of the factory. While company owners are benefiting from making a huge profit by having things made overseas, it’s devastating the U.S. job market. 

Blog # 7

The ideas of the Enlightenment contribute to the Atlantic evolution were shared across the ocean through newspapers, books, and pamphlets. This amazing ides had influenced the world’s social movement. The American revolutionary movement was a conservative one according to Strayer; instead of a new movement they preserve the existing liberties of the colonies rather than to create a new one. To answer Strayer’s question from the book; what was revolutionary about the America revolution it that the kind of society that had emerged within the colonies. The revolution accelerated the established democratic tendencies of the colonial societies; the United States became the world’s most democratic country and announced in the Declaration of independence. What was not revolutionary about the America revolution in my opinion was the elimination of Native Americans, and imposing a variety of new taxes and tariffs on the colonies without their consent. All the countries’ revolution that Stryer had discussed I think it was a necessity in order to gain independence and freedom. The feminist movement was astonishing I applaud, admired to leader and organizer for standing up for the women and their rights. For the Declaration of the Rights of Women, women are able to have education opportunities to enrich their brain, able to have a career so we don’t get look down upon and oppress by men, able to have freedom and equal rights to those of men. According to Strayer one of the limitation for the Declaration of the Rights of Women was that when leave their husband and children behind, household chores were undone, serious reproductive damage and as a consequence depopulate the nation.

The first industry revolution country was Europe that I think accounted for why the county was ahead and advance economically for some time which other countries looked up to. Europe had opened up the communication with other countries, helped give ideas and gave rise to technology of the scientific revolution. For all the scientists which lead others to continue their scientific route to more advance technology into the next century. Nowadays; technology is so advancing continuously, for some it is hard to keep up-to date with the knowledge and the technologies.

Europe Empire was harsh to other countries, for their superpower. They have built territories and exploited other countries resources. Forced labor was unprecedented; abusing slaves treating them so brutally like garbage. They had no human decency back then; in my opinion it was due to racism that they had no respect for the slaves and colored people. What kind of punishment was cutting off a body part? What good did that do to those authority figures in that century? Yeah, it made them feel better they had taken their anger out of those poor slaves. But not only they destroyed a slave’s life, they diminish their slave population by doing so. After reading this chapters made me so glad that I did not exist at that time to experience slavery. But on the up side who knows maybe I would make a difference in that century.