Rise to power: A Global Hokey Pokey

Firs off, Niall reminds me so much of you Mr. Whitten lol.

Secondly, I agree with what Niall has to say. The East is definitely going to rise to power, and as much as I hate to admit it, America's short, though influential, run as the major power in the 20th-21st century, is soon to come to an end because of the consistant arguing between our politicians. I also agree that Africa and China, though following many of the 6 deadly apps, are not following all of them, which is the reason America was able to rise to such a power. I believe if China does rise up, it will become an extraordinarily powerful nation, but the government and people are going to disagree too much, and that country will tear itself apart, and then my guess is Japan after that and History will play its course from there.

But like I said, I agree with what Niall said, and believe that his eery predictions are more than likely to come true.

Worldly Interactions

1) I think that the authors decided to put the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals together all in chapter 28 for one main reason: They're Islamic empires. And they were around the same time period. I think when the textbook was being constructed they saw the three empires, said "Islamic Empires during the Origins of Global Interdependence", and decided they would be well off in a chapter together. It also probs helped to keep the chapter count to a nice neat 40 ;)

2) I think there were very good ups and very bad downs of this period.

The goods include a new found sense of cultural exchange, and discovery of the rest of the unknown world by literate societies at that point. This period was the push-off required to start the next 500 years of history.

The bads include an increased tension between Christianity and Islam, and the development of slavery in the New World. The tensions still continue to this day, and slavery was one of human kind's darkest hours, causing a sense of arrogance amongst some races of people and detracting from the betterment of other races.

Overall I feel this period hurt human relations and human thought more than helped. It is what I consider to be a period of newfound hatred towards other men.

Christianity: The Peaceful Religion That's Always at War

Fabian Fucan attacked Christianity in multiple ways after he left the religion, such as:

• Religiously- He claimed that the Christian God, Deus, was very clever in the presentation of his teachings, but offered little truth, basically claiming he was an evil God.
• Culturally- Claims that their God and the Jesuits are attempting to overthrow the very tradition of Japanese culture.
• Historically- Claims that since the very beginning, the leaders of Japan had been chosen by Japanese gods, and that Deus is planning to subvert that tradition.
• Politically- The institution of Christianity would overthrow the lineage of emperors, as explained in the historical aspect of his attack.
• Socially- The Japanese people would not be weak like those of Mexico and the Philippines, and would hold true to their traditions and not fall to Christianity.

Sorry it's a little late to be put up on the blog!

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Hi Mr. Whitten, just a note, I forgot to post this on my blog, but if you notice I sent it to your whitten@bpsk12 account on Sunday night, so I was hoping you could please accept this as an on time assignment. Thank you so much!

Capitalism: Refined

After doing the reading, my idea of capitalism has changed slightly. I now see that at it's roots, it is private companies deciding large scale economic decisions, not the government. So my definition of it being elected representatives making decisions is nothing close to what it actually is. I also see that it works under the forces of supply and demand. This is where my part about great opportunity for businesses comes into play, because if you have something of great demand, you're going to have a lot of people buying your product, and therefore you have tremendous opportunity to get rich. But if you have a product of no demand, you have the ability to get very poor as well. Also, capitalism helped bring about the rise of stocks and banks, two of the industries that our modern world couldn't live without.

Capitalism for Dummies

Capitalism is one of man kind's best inventions. It allows for great opportunity among every person. It allows the poorest of the poor to rise up and become the richest of the rich. Capitalism, or at least American capitalism, is having elected representatives of different political parties and beliefs to argue their view points in what they would think would be best for the state. Of course, in this system of government, not everybody is gonna be happy all the time, because not everybody is going to get their hopes to come true. But on the opposite ends of the spectrum are Communism and Facism, one a complete dictorship by definition and the other a complete equality of people by definition. The beauty of capitalism is that it allows voices to be heard, whereas in other forms of government voices are either totally suppressed or blended together.

Christendom, What happened to you?

Over the course of 1500 years, from the death of Jesus to the era of exploration and Martin Luther, the basic values of Christendom changed tremendously. I believe that Jesus was just a man who preached "be good people", which was absolutely a righteous cause. But I believe that human's are also selfish, and when Christianity rose as the major religious power in Europe, those selfish humans saw the ability to bend it to their will to accomplish personal goals. For instance, European monarchs would use the "because god said I was king" excuse to uphold their power. And because there was no way to prove or disprove this, the peasants believed it. This allowed monarchs to raise money to build armies to conquer. This is where Luther had the same problem as me, and so he attempted to bring Christianity back to the more traditional message of "be good people". Of course, this problem is still existant today by politicians and heads of churches, using the bible and Jesus to prevent the development of society as a whole for their own selfish purposes.