Ch. 16 pg. 461-477

• In the modern time the religion of Christianity began to spread throughout Asians, Africans, and Native Americans. soon began its first time to be globally recognized. at the same time the Scientific Revolution also begins to spread throughout the people. they both got the attention of people and cause a new cultural encounter in people.
• Spaniards and Portuguese made the spread of Christianity oversea and wanted to expand and then began their crusades combining religion and material interest.
• Christianity had reached China in the time when the Ming and the Qing Dynasty.
• Jesuits had targets mainly official Chinese elites.  Many of the Chinese people did not convert. is was one of the things that if not everyone was going to convert to Christianity then no one was.

Chapter 15 pg. 449- 458

In the 1500s to the 1866 there were over 12 million slaves that were taking from their homes and now are used for slavery. about 10.7 million were in the americas. i found this to be very tragic because millions of slaves were captured and about 1.7 million were killed during the process to they were just capture to die. Slave trade changed society because since many people bought slaves those how were selling them made profit and enriched many people. Children were also taken, but sometimes they were free and other times were sold for slavery.

Ch. 15: Global Commerce 1450-1750

• the chapter is mainly about the trade network that shaped up the world between the 1450-1750.
• the Europeans were very interested in long-distance trade as they break into the Indian Ocean spice trade.
• Europeans wanted a commercial connection with the Asians.
• Both Vasco da Gama and Columbus wanted routes to Asia because their main object they desired were spices.
• Spain and Portugal both want to take control of the Asian trade.
• This is very interesting to me how many of these people would just fight and go such distances for spices and other things like slave trade.

Sugar Handout

• Western Europe had many trade routes in which exported their good from other countries but there one main source was sugar.
• Yet the Europeans where not the only ones who wanted the sugar. The British and the French people also wanted to obtain such a source like sugar because they are royalty.
• It surprises me how such people can fight for a source that everyone can have, like today, sugar is everywhere and with everything we buy has sugar. I just wonder if there was one source only one person could be able to control.

Chapter 14 pg 417-430

• Russian empire in Moscow being to emerge in the 1500 and it began by conquering neighboring cities. Over three centuries and it grew to an enormous empire.
• Russia pressured others to become Christians and they made it possible because of their modern weapons and organization. Brought a big epidemic to the natives of Siberia because they were not immune to the smallpox and measles.
• Asian Empire expanded from the North and the West from 1680-1760.  Soon evolved into a Central Asian empire.

Chapter 14

• European Empires mark there expansion by going into the Americas.
• The Spaniards going into the Caribbean and invading the Inca and the Aztec empire, the Portuguese in Brazil; the British, Dutch, Colonies in the North America.
• The Europeans had taken over most of the Americas in the mid-nineteenth century.
• The reasons why the Europeans had such power controlled the America was because the had a huge rivalry with other empires the there was the need to compete with each other and conquer land. the reason why it was the Americas is because of there position for their empire, and the Americas was the closest them.