ch. 19

China became a semi colonial society after the opium war

Countries such as for example Japan, the Ottoman Empire,Persia,Ethiopia,Siam, and Latin America, would come up with ways to keep away from the power of the European colonial empire.

By the time of the 19th century the Atlantic Slave trade had disappeared 

Slaves were viewed and treated like merchandise.

Those that were from Britain have ended up traveling south moving away from Egypt. 

The other thing that the British did before they left was that they would hang and whip a variety of people. 

The adjustments that were made for power lead the west to take action over China's business of trade and they also took over the supply and demand.

Chapter 14

• Century long Portuguese made an effort to explore a sea route to the East,by creeping slowly down the West African coast, around the tip of South Africa,up the East African coast, and finally across the Indian Ocean to Calicut in southern India in 1498.

• That's when the Europeans were able to discover some type of interesting ancient and rich system that would work really well for trade and this route was able to go all the way from East Africa and end all the way in China. 

•   The Portuguese were aware of the outcome of where this type of system would land them but they would also be ignoring the way that the system would tend to work.  

• Europeans wanted to hop into this business of the Indian Ocean Trade

• Fur Regions such as North America, Siberia,were affected by fur. The French were able to create a mutual trading relationship with North Americans and the Russians were able to create a relationship with Siberia.

• A further problem that had occured later on is that 

Chapter 13

I thought that this topic theme was really interesting because of the way that it started off talking 

about how the Americans had originally been discovered, and how the British wanted to play a part 

in the system of the Indian Ocean Trade in order to increase the fortune, from what I thought of just 

reading that part. I thought that was a smart way for a country to increase the fortune, besides this I 

thought that it was interesting how a variety of the population of Native Americans have not been 

killed by the way that we have been told, and on the other hand they were killed by sick disease that 

was caused by the people of the other land. From my point of view I thought that it was already bad 

enough that these people make themselves feel at home that they some how get the idea of using the 

native people to be doing the dirty work and becoming their personal slaves for them which I see no 

good reason if the land belongs to the native people.