Cats World History II Blog

From all old worlds rose 1 new world europeans wanted entry to the Indian ocean commercial network portugeuse sailed around tip of africa to reach asia spices, precious emeralds and chinese silk had to pay in cash silver or gold werent used to such a diverse trading environment wanted to access minerals like african gold fields realized they had superior naval vessels and bullied everone into submission for awhile forcibly took ports all across africa and asia establishing, trading post empire spanish established power in the philippines stayed a spanish territory until the end of 19th century spanish ways of life took hold just as in mexico huge missionary efforts made philippines one of the only christian outposts in asia many were attracted to spanish economy and fled to manila making it very diverse the dutch brutally overtook the spice islands and impoverished the land.they monopolized the mace, nutmeg, and cloves market in europe and sold for 14x profit british wer...

The modern era is a humanistic era Humanistic statues, realistic and studied In paintings subjects are people, ordinary people developed perspective philosophy ,questioning, human agency, democracy all developed in mass in the modern era Was the renaissance a good development? yes because technological and social progress, we live in america, we are a product of the renaissance no because the changes were forced, created a hierarchy, mass genocide and devastated ecosystems no pro outweighs/justifies the cons of colonizing the americas

seminal=seed ex seminal thinkers were those with ideas so profound that they still affect our lives today, buddah, socrates, jesus, confucius, mohammad The modern era is a European era The renaissance was a rebirth of classical greek ideas and humanism Science as a way of understanding is bein questioned today Paleolithic, neolithic, ancient, classical, modern, We are spending a whole semester on the modern era so it is important to know classical greek era as well because it was what created the renaissance conventionally the early modern era genuine globalization, modern societies, strong european presence in global affairs columbian exchange, scientific revolution, eurasia recovers from black death late agrarian period