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Ch. 23

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This chapter is talking about a new phase of global interaction. It is interesting because Strayer starts off the chapter with a picture of the earth. This is different then the rest of the chapters because I feel like he is trying to tie this whole book together. I think he is trying to say that everything in life including history is tied and happens on earth and we all have that in common. No matter if you are from Europe, Africa, South America, Mexico, China, and many more places we all have one thing in common, we all live on earth. This is our earth and we need to take care of it the best we can because we only have one. This brings me to my next point when Strayer uses the word "Anthropocene era". what this is talking about is the human era. He talked about environmental movements have been starting since the 1960s to see how us humans are impacting the earth including animals and plants. There are three factors that magnified the human impact on earth's ecological...
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Chapter 15 Cultural Transformations

In this chapter it states that the early modern era of the world history was birthed by two intersecting cultural trends that even play out now in the 21st century. The first wave was the spread of Christianity to Asians, Africans, and Native Americans. The second wave was more of a scientific outlook which challenged Western Christianity. In the beginning of Christianity was only limited to Europe. It was in the 1500 where it stretched from Spain and England and Russia. Christianity was then split again between Roman Catholics and Eastern Orthodox.  I found it interesting that in the Spanish America and China societies, Christianity became widely practiced and they largely rejected it. One thing that I found interesting was that the breakthrough of Scientific Revolution occurred in Europe but Islam had most of the advanced science in the world between 800 and 1400.
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Ch. 22

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