World History 2 Blog

In this first part of chapter 16, we learned about revolutions all around the world and how these revolutions were an inspiration for other revolutions. North American Revolution: The American revolution started in 1756 and ended in 1783. The purpose of this revolution was for the 13 colonies to claim independence from Britain's rule.  When Britain had control over the 13 colonies they were imposing heavy taxes on people living in the colonies. The people of the 13 colonies did not like this and they decided to go to war with Britain so that they can live freely and become more democratic. This revolution was important and unique because a new tactic of war was introduced known as guerrilla warfare. This revolution was just one of the many to start and it inspired many others. French Revolution: The French Revolution started in 1789 and ended in 1799. This revolution began when the king of France needed help from representatives from 3 social classes. When they all met up, ...

I this chapter we leaned how Europe was continuing to spread as the same with christianity. We also learned how there was a new way of thinking starting to process known as the scientific revolution.  Things started to get heated between the roman catholic church an Martin Luther in this time. While they were beefin, Martin Luther exposed the Roman Catholic Church of being corrupt. So when everybody heard that the Roman Catholic Church was corrupt they were hella mad! Their anger towards the Roman Catholic Church led hella people to protestantism. Protestantism shot off and shot off quick! It started becoming so big and adapted to that they started breaking off protestant churches all over Europe. The roman catholic church wasn't feeling to hot about this, so this dilemma started was is known as the thirty years war. This "war" led to the reorganization of territories. So after this the roman chaotic church started building itself up again, So they (the roman catholic ...

In this section of chapter 14, we learned about the Atlantic Slave trade Millions of beautiful Africans were stripped of everything they had because the Europeans needed someone to do their work for them. Europeans invaded Africa and snatched people from their families and treated them inhumane and harshly. When in the middle passage Africans died in large amount of numbers from terrible treatment, some of these beautiful souls decided to commit suicide because dying was better than living in captivity. But one of the wild things I learned in this chapter that had me shook was that African elites would sometimes trade salves to europeans in exchange for tobacco, gunpowder, and alcohol. I never really knew this, I thought for the most part that these African elites would be hella protective over their own people.  Documents- Voices From the Slave Trade: Also pieced with this reading of the second part of chapter 14 was the reading of an African mans journey to slaver...

In this chapter we learned how the Europeans wanted in on the Indian Ocean Trade and how maneuvered their way into it. The Portuguese: The Portuguese made their way into the Indian ocean trade by technically practicing piracy. What the Portuguese did was find areas that they knew they could take over, take them over, and then start taxing merchants. The Portuguese, when looking for land to take over, went for land near the shore of the Indian Ocean, so that they would include themselves in the trade. The Spaniards:  Spain got into the Indian Ocean trade by stealing land. The spaniards stole land from the Philippines. They went into the Philippines when they didn't have a leader, and took over. Once in the Philippines, the spaniards imposed christianity onto all of the Philippine folks there. The spaniards claimed the large amounts of silver that the Philippines had as theirs and made their way into the Indian Ocean trade. While in control the Philippines, Chinese and Japane...