The Great Divergence

I agree with the Ted talk completely because I think his six reasons were very simple, obvious, and bery true. I believe that the power and wealth of the world has everything to do with technological and medical advancement, as well as property rights, consumer society, work ethic, and competition. I believe the more advanced you are and the more understanding a nation has of the workd the more they can advance further and become wealthier with new innovations,which of course fuels consumer need and provides a need for job and promotes work ethic so people have money to buy these new things. As an answer to his final three questions I believe it is extremely possible to delete these apps as easy as it is to gain them. An example is definitely Americas work ethic because the American public expects things to be handed to them and have no drive to have q better life like poorer countries. As for China and Africa I am unsure if the sequence can be mixed up I believe it could be but then again it would be difficult to produce consumer society if there are no innovations to sell and no jobs or property rights.

Safavids, Ottomans, Mughals

I think the authors of the textbook put all of these empires together because they were very similar in religiious dominance, world perspsective and the general geographic area. These empires were all clashing in the same time period and it, in my opinion, is much easier to understand when all the empires are described together and show the connections and conflict between them. Seperate chapters confuses me personally because it seems that they are all seperate time periods and would have confused me when conflicts occured and who they weree actually between. The global activity was net positive because eventually all conflicts lead to better leadership and although conflict is never a positive thing, the end result is worth it.

Fabian Fucan

Fabian Fucan was initially a Christian but when he realized the flaws in the ideas he converted to atheism then Buddhism. He vowed to attack Chiristianity and wrote a doctrine called Deus Destroyed where he explored the Christains and the imperfections of the belief they spread. He accused them of trying usurping lands and controlling them. He expressed his concern that Christian missionaries were planning to destroy Buddhism and conquer and eliminate traditional Japanese culture. This affected the social structures by turning other
Japanese people against Christianity, straining relations between Europe and Japan.

Chapter26

I was out sick Friday but I tried doing the project on my own

http://www.showme.com/sh/?h=KuHX8bY

Capitalism Actually

Capitalism is an economic system that uses independent, private parties to try and take over free markets with no interruption from the government or nobility class. This system creates the price of the good depending on the need and demand for the goods. In Europe this was highly encouraged by the government by protecting rights and upholding contracts.

Christendom and Capitalism

Christendom went through huge reforms causing it to branch into new entirely new religions inn some places. A man named Martin Luther lled the Roman Catholic Church corrupt and so created a new branch of Christianity called Protestant. The Catholic Church also went through its own reform called the Council of Trent, while the Society of Jesus, another new branch, was also created. These different branching off caused unrest and split the Roman Catholic Church.
To be very honest I'm not sure what capitalism means, I believe that it is a form of governemnt wheree the government has complete control over the economy and the church but I am not really sure.

(the internet was down at my house last night and I was unable to post this, which is why it is posted later on blog)