ch. 20 pg 973-1017

Collapse at the Center
 In this chapter Strayer talks about the first world War and the civilization crisis in 1914-1918. The first world war, was the beginning stage in the collapse of what the Europeans have built for themselves, and their global dominance after the first world War, the great depression hit right away, causing even more damage to society. nobody had any hope for a better day, and everything was at its absolute worst and lowest after a period of greatness. Also the threat of communism arose from the Russians directed toward Britain, France, and the United States. Now the idea of facism spread across europe like wildfire. the idea to purify the nation and it was a complete nationalistic movement. But that only caused many more problems like hitler in Germany. Then the second world war started. Mainly it was a global conflict between independent origins of Asia and Europe. After two world wars, a depression, economic collapse, and things like the holocaust Europe was shattered. In the 20th century europe started to recover. They rebuilt their industrial economies and revived their democratic political systems, while the United States took on a dominating role globally.

ch 19 pg 931-957

Empires in Collision
In this Chapter it mentions china's century of Crisis. China's long lasting imperial state has collapsed. China is now a dependant, powerless and weak and less than the europeans who dominate almost everything. Unlike Europe there was no industrial revolution, so when the population grew in China they had no support for the things that they needed. Just like China the islamic world felt little need to know what the West was doing until it collided with Europe, but unlike china the islamic world had a better understanding of europe. The Ottoman empire and also japan clashed with the western world. What was once dominant, was now answering to the european powers. something many never pictured especially the chinese. But we gotta expect the unexpected.

ch 18 879-912

Colonial Encounters in Asia and Africa
The industrial Revolution gave the need of raw materials and the productivity of industrial technology. Europe needed to start selling its own products, they were producing more manufactured good than the people were able to buy. At the same time in Europe, capital investors often found it profitable to invest their money abroad then at their own home. So the result was imperialism  would solve the class conflicts of an industrializing society, while avoiding revolution or the redistribution of wealth. There was a second wave of European colonialism ocurring in Africa and Asia. This time it featured Germany, Italy, Belgium, Japan, and the United States who were not involved in the first wave of colonialism. the construction of these new empires were built off of military force. For many european colonialism was a traumatic experience, which makes e-sense cause their home is  being taken over by people that think they are better and they are seeing people get killed right in front of them. Europeans took over everything. they forced their religion upon the africans and asian's and also killed their culture and values that people had for generations.

ch. 17 pg 827-861

In this chapter it discusses the revolutions of industrialization. As the population was growing there was an emerging energy crisis, mainly in western Europe, China, and Japan. Industrial fuels were going away and their prices started  to rise. The industrial revolution  marked a human response to the dilemma as non renewable fossil fuels replaced earlier reliance on energy sources of wind, water, wood, and human muscle power. it was a breakthrough for human use.The industrial revolution had a major impact on the environment. it altered landscapes and turned natural things like rivers into cess pools. and polluted the air affecting many people. The industrial revolution is one of the major events in human history globally.

ch. 16 pg 798-811/ Documents pg 812-825

Echoes of Revolution
The Atlantic revolutions expanded far beyond the point of origin and where they started. The Atlantic Revolutions created a snowball effect, it was like a domino effect, once the revolution  ended then a new course of events happened because of it. 3 major movements were created because of the revolutions, those were: Abolitionists sought the end of slavery, nationalist hoped to foster unity and independence from foreign rule, and feminists challenge male dominance. These were the main things that were created from the revolutions. And these are were events that are still either being fought, if things that have happened that have changed human history already.

Foundresses of Notre dame

This week at NDNU was founders week. where students can participate in activities on campus ot gain knowledge about the founders. I like these events here on campus because it gives us knowledge on the university I am attending and not a lot of schools have that. I didn't get to attend any of the events this year, but i did learn about Francoise and Julie. The two Foundresses for Notre Dame. Francoise was born into a wealthy family and had everything given to her, ahd her whole life planned for her, and was given the best of everything from food all  the way to eduaction. The other is Julie Billart who was not wealthy at all, and had to work for everything. Francoise gave up her healthy life because she didn't understand how she has so much, more than she and her family need but there are people on the street begging. Julie and Francoise came together realizing the way that people were living is wrong.

-Ch. 16 pg. 781-797

In  Chapter 16 the topic is Atlantic Revolutions and Global Echoes. Atlantic Revolutions globally were all connected to each other. The revolutions in North America, France,. Haiti, and Latin America took place in a larger state globally. The revolutions all shared a set of common ideas, it became a world of intellectual and cultural exchange as well as one of commercial and biological interaction. The ideas behind the Atlantic revolution came came from the european enlightenment and shared in books, newspapers, and other resources. Although they shared some common ideas the revolutions were all triggered through different circumstances, expressed differently through social and political tension, and varied in outcomes. The  North American revolution was seperating themselves from british rule, and the ideas were derived from ideas of the french. The  French revolution was inspired by the revolution of the Americans, but the french was on the verge of bankruptcy and fought reforms that would modernize the tax system and make it more equitable. The Haitian revolution was inspired by the the french revolution. the ideas and acts of the frenchg revolution set off a course of violence that lasted more than a decade. It meant different thing sto different groups, to the rich white people the revolution meant greater autonomy for the economy, and for the other citizens it meant equality of citizenship for all whites.