This Blog is for History

Quiz 4 Hallmark Five: Strayer’s textbook expresses Hallmark Five well.   From the first chapter of the book to the last he touches on diversity, cultures, ethnicity, race, economics, age, gender, sexuality and faith throughout the world. The book shown how Strayer addressed each of these issues in every era and what role they all played during that time.   Strayer used great illustrations in the text to bring to light the stories of the silk, sea and land roads. Strayer highlighted women roles in history how once women were equal, to the time when women became nurtures, and then how women became independent and were able to vote.   The sisters have always had the people best interest at heart.   They marched forward to have women be strong and stand on their own, As NDNU being the first to give a bachelor’s degree to a woman. The sisters have held strong with their community overlooking race, diversity, cultures, ethnicity, age, gender, sexuality, and fait...

  The New Era is upon us or not?  If we were to name a new era what would its name be? My group in class tonight named it "the Roboticist Era".   This is based on the expansion of global t echnological.   The points that make up this era are as followed: 1) Capitalism has intensified it has become so self serving. 2) Technology has become more efficient making productivity      faster than ever. 3) Development in all the countries has become so competitive that      all products and services are animated taking away from the      human element.   4)  Global civilization now focusing on the planet by making the      world less reliable on fossil fuels, more renewable resources      such as solar, clean water, clean air, healthier people.

                                                The Industrial Revolution So many things happened during this Modern era 1750.    British efforts to create cotton cloth triggered the modern industrial revolution.   Being able to make clothing and blankets in mass production made it easy because of textile machines.   The balance of wealth and power shifted from Europe to Britain and the rest of the world.   In 1700-1860 The Revolution in Agriculture developed and new farming tools and crops were being planted.   They had horse drawn plow and could plant seeds faster and the plows cut into the earth deeper to allow for planting of potatoes and turnip.   Because the grow of farming was growing so fast new laws on land ...

It is evident that the affects of polytheism and monotheism evolved with human culture from ancient primitive polytheism to the ethical monotheism its affect was that of good vs. evil and how there could only be one “God” according to the monotheistic culture, and if your belief was polytheism you were part of a “cult' in which you were evil and possibly on behalf of the secular beliefs you were an atheist.     These feelings have not changed thought out the centuries among monotheistic people.   Polytheism and Monotheism have been reflected in our literature, art, music and architecture and our politics, society, and our economy.   In the Hellenic age (sometimes called the golden ages) Greeks used festivals to celebrate the deities (Gods) this brought together citizens and with it came civic pride.   They believed their gods were literal gods and were like humans in many respects “Gods and Goddesses”.   They had many “Gods” but twelve of the go...

                                                    The   Mongol and Pastoral people The Mongols were barbaric but they were amazing they conquered land with great speed.  They acquired and controlled 11 million square miles and took out Russia in the thirteen centuries some say the Mongolians created Russian.  They created the first free trade zone.  The pastoral people lived a nomadic life they were herders and moved about according to climate. They had perishable products so they had to stay and lived near small towns. They herds were primarily horses, sheep, goats, cattle and the two-humped camel.   They were tough people exposed to the elements of both winter cold and desert heat. They were egalitarian people sharing everything with the women.   They did a lot of trading for manufactured products because t...

                                            THE SILK ROAD The silk road was not a road it was a network of trade routes.   It reshaped the lives of everyone, people exchanging ideas, products, drugs, spices, trade offered a way to meet their wives, husbands, and by this it helped to expand the family unit as well as the cities.   Trade connections were made between Africa, Eurasia, Eastern Mediterranean to Central Asia and China.   Silk was only found in China and was a highly guarded secret. China spun the silk from the cocoons of worms that feed on the mulberry trees. Silk was a sign of the elite and the elite finally had something to spend their money on.   Silk kept them cool in the summer and warm in the winter.   You could call this the bli...