Xerena'sWorldHistoryBlog

Slavery... A very sensitive thing that many people have many different opinions on. Some believe it happened, others think it's all made up. Something that happened just a few generations before, yet people act like it was hundreds and hundreds of years ago. The concept on slave trade is unbelievable. How people would just want to sell off other individuals or trade them for other things and such. I remember first learning about the Middle Passage in my English class senior year of high school, we touched upon it for a bout a day or so because of a book we were reading. To me it's crazy how people were really putting people in that position to just have a million die JUST from transportation is crazy. All the things they were doing to them like, the forced labor, the branding, beating them, and as well as tearing apart these families is shocking. Simply all because skin color and the idea of having control of others. I really don't get what people enjoyed about torturing ot...

The overall topic on trading is pretty interesting. with the way it's evolved over time. From discussing about how people traveled miles and miles and miles to another place, kill the animals they had sometimes used for transportation, not really even be able to communicate due to all the different languages the people spoke, to it now being something that they have a more efficient way of travelling from place to place and being able to expand out all the places that can now do it as well and of course the many more items that are now up for trade. It seems as if there was just a huge jump in the trade concept of it all. Especially learning about how one place wants something so bad from another place because they don't have access to it where they are. I think the only reason I find it interesting because of the way we can now access pretty much anything from almost anywhere.

In chapter 13, the section that caught my attention the most was the one on colonies of sugar. This caught my attention because from what I can recall (at the moment) this is the earliest thing I've really learned about that had something to do with the people of spanish descent, since this is going back to the 1600's I found it interesting how something so simple now, was so useful in many ways back then. To me, sugar is something really common that is used in the kitchen when making things, or to make something you have sweeter, whereas for the Europeans, it was used for that as as well as medicine and they would use it to sculpt that. Another thing that made this a bit more interesting thing to me was overall how it involved a lot of different people that were from different places. How a few simple things (now) where everything back then that ended up having people form different places in the world come together to sell or trade or whatever. Also, how by creating the produ...

Overall in the section of "The Early Modern World" it made me think most about the change that has happened simply from modern, to whatever era they believe we are now going into. Jumping from classical to modern, one can really see the difference and growth people have generally overcome. Me personally, I find Modern really interesting based on things I've learned in the past or things that I have heard of that are considered part of the modern era are interesting. Since it is things that are a lot more recent and discussed till this day more that things that happened in other eras, learning about more "current" history that we talk about in school applies to things that are still extremely sensitive to some people and it was be interesting to dive more into things that were just briefly discussed in high school classes. I am looking the most forward to learning so much more about the 13 colonies since I haven't talked about it since the 8th grade and as we...