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Blog Fourteen 04/14

Module 6 2) What was distinctive about the end of Europe’s African and Asian empires compared to other cases of imperial disintegration? Many empires like, Assyrian, Romans, Arabs, and Mongols had their empires end due to being overtaken, whereas with Europe’s African and Asian empires the end had been associated with the mobilization of masses around a nationalist ideology. Many empires had collapsed in the twentieth century. As well as the Austrian as well as the Ottoman, following the end of World War I. Following, the Russian Empire falling apart even being under the Soviet Union. Then following World War II, the fall of both the German and Japanese empires. Eventually followed the movements of the African and Asian independence with all the stories of the other empires coming to an end and the ideas of national self-determination. There was an idea that humankind was divided into certain groups of people, or by nations, which each had deserved an independent state. There was a ...
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Blog Fifteen 04/16

Write a short (3-page) essay that puts the current coronavirus pandemic into historical context. Use the information you learned in Module 5 to get you started. You do not need to do additional research unless you decide it is necessary. However, you do need to cite all sources of information you end up using in your essay. Include both in-text citations such as (Strayer 91) and a Work Cited section at the end. Your essay should be 3 pages and include the following elements / address the following questions: Xerena Sarria  Professor Andrews World History  16 April 2020 Word Count: 1043 Covid-19 What really is a “pandemic”? What factors are involved to really make something qualify as a pandemic? To begin, a pandemic is known as a new virus that emerges and is able to be spread throughout people in one way or another. With it being a new virus, there is pretty much no cure, no vaccine, or anything, which usually makes it global, since many people travel a...
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Blog Thirteen 04/09

Module 5 The coronavirus pandemic is not the only one humanity has suffered. Spend some time for this class session learning about any other historical pandemic by doing self-guided research. What other pandemic can you find that has plagued humanity? Where did it strike? Why were people vulnerable to it? How long did it last? Did the people who experienced it learn anything from the experience / do anything differently afterwards? What were the long-term effects of it on human populations or on the planet? These questions are just to get you started. You do not need to answer them all, (but you can if that is helpful). Summarize what you learn in your blog post for April 9.  My focus for module 9 will be about the AIDS pandemic. AIDS first spread in the  1900’s. It was spread into the United States in about the 1980’s and still continues to live on today without treatment. It’s harmful to humans because it’s an attack on the human immune system. It goes on and ruins the b...
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Blog Twelve 04/07

Module 4 Read the section on fascism in chapter 20 of our textbook. You do not need to read the entire chapter. Then spend 30 minutes doing self-guided research on the internet about fascism.  Fascism was known as something that was said all across Europe. It was something that was known as being nationalistic, and to purify the nation. The spokesman of it all was all for violence towards enemies. With the renewing force in society, many placed their faith in a leader. Fascists also were against individualism, liberalism, feminism, parliamentary democracy, and communism because they viewed it as something that only weakened the nation. There were small fascist movements in many Western European countries, as well as France, Great Britain and the Netherlands. There were more movements that took place in places like Austria, Hungary, and Romania. In Italy, the nation had barely become unified in 1805, but was short lived due to Northern Italy eventually creating tension. Mus...
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Blog Eleven 03/31

Module 3  What strategies did China adopt to confront its various problems? In what ways did these strategies reflect China’s own history and culture as well as the new global order?  China had this idea of ‘self strengthening’ their policies during the 1860-70’s. They had this examination system that recruited qualified candidates for official positions. After the Taipang rebellion, they needed support for landlords as well as the repair of things like dikes, and irrigation to help restore the social and economic order. With the help of some factories producing textiles and steel. The coal mines had expanded and a telegraph system was at least initiated. After some time the concept of “self strengthening” had shown all that it was a fail. There were many problems China dealt with and trying to solve many problems with one general solution and as time had shown, it wasn’t in their favor. Especially with the rise of the Boxer Uprising which had left Europeans, and Chinese Chr...
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Blog Ten 03/26

Module 2 Read the poem on page 798 by Nguyen Khuyen, a Vietnamese official during French colonial rule. If you had the opportunity to share a glass of his “fine wine” (or a cup of tea) with Mr. Nguyen, what would you say to him? How might that conversation go? If I had a conversation with him it would generally be about life and the idea of ‘friends’.  I would say something like, “Why do you feel like you should only drink the fine wine with friends? Why don’t you think you deserve some just on your own? Even today there are many people who don’t like doing things simply because they refuse to do it alone. Myself included. I am indeed guilty of this act. I can relate with you when it comes to the idea of having money. Because I’ve always been pretty good when it comes to saving so when I want something or want to go do something I’m always fine, but then it goes back to the whole not wanting to do it alone. But, it is something that we should all get used to. I’ve learned, wel...
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Blog Nine 03/24

Module 1:  How did the Industrial Revolution transform British society?  Before the Industrial Revolution, the aristocrats were pretty much at the top. They were the ones who had control over things being the dominant class of Britain. Before the revolution, there were many families, (appox. more than half) who had owned more than half of the land, and they would use a majority of it for people who would farm, which also provided work for others. The change occurred  when it came to the rise of urban wealth. It brought a huge decline to the landowners since they had to make room for all the new things that were coming in like businessmen, manufacturers, and bankers. one of the things that had the biggest effects on them was when the tariffs on the high foreign imports that were protecting the British were abolished. the ones who really owned property, were the ones who had money or were businessmen as opposed to simply having it just from being an aristocrat. They were ...
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