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Decolonization signaled the declining legitimacy of both empire and race as a credible basis for political or social life. At the top of the agenda everywhere was economic development a process that meant growth or increasing production as well as distributing the fruits of that growth to raise good living standards. This journey for development now was being operated all across the globe represented the universal acceptance of beliefs unheard of not many centuries earlier. It increased and by that It was granted legitimacy by the government change was on the uproar and it had no signs of slowing down. How is a planet suppose to form new ideas and evolve throughout the years if it isn't given a chance to change. "Life can only be understood backward, but it is lived forward." History, after all, is the only guide we have to the possible shape of the future. So like everyone else before we stumble struggle on both individual as well as collective tasks largely taking a sta...

Chapter 21 discussed Russia and China and how the two were socialist and communist countries. Russia is an industrialized nation with no large working class or middle class, but what was rather known as an intellectual class. Russias government would impose their communistic views on not only their people but tried to control/manipulate other countries. This later, in turn, began to cause conflict between the government and its people. China was also a communist country and began to follow the ideas of Karl Marx. They were similar to Russia in that they both share an intellectual class. China struggled to have their people follow their new form of government, especially when it came to their peasants, it was a struggle to have the peasants support them unlike how it was in Russia. In class, we also discussed the Cold War and whether or not it ended, in my opinion, it's hard to say, but the way I look at it is that it is a state of constant tension between the United States and Russ...

Chapter 20 discussed the many tragedies that occurred in the early 1900s-late 70s. Some of the biggest events were the World Wars, the Great Depression, and the Rebalancing of Global Power. As discussed in class, the 'collapse of the center' was the decline of religion and power coming from Western Europe. Europe was known as the center of the world, everything began to fall apart and people realized that the ways and traditions don't have to revolve around Europe. Europe asserted its superiority in the areas of religion, politically, democracy, economically, militarily, and technology. Another great moral collapse was the Holocaust, many people were brutally tortured at the time. World War I and World War II were failures of the government to avert war, it was seen as a world war because of the system of alliances and colonial relationships, this, in turn, caused the European diplomacy to fail in stopping this. Lastly, the Great Depression challenged the idea t...

Chapter 19 discussed the Ottoman Empire, Japan, and China. The Ottoman Empire controlled South East Europe, African, and Asia. One goal of the Ottoman Empire's attempts at modernization was to better integrate the empire's many non-Muslim communities. In China, they were known to be a dependent, semi-colonial country, which they strived to change and become more independent. During the 1860s and 1870s, China developed a self-strengthening plan that sought to uplift the traditional Chinese culture while including ideas from the west. This turned out to be a failure due to the Boxer Rebellion (1898-1901). The outcome of the Boxer Rebellion was that foreign occupation of Bejing and large reparation from China's government. In Japan, they used its newfound industrial, economic, and military power to begin building its own empire in East Asia.

Chapter 18 discussed colonial encounters in Asia, Africa, and Oceania. Through this chapter, we see how slavery affected different parts of the world. Strayer states, "Many of the new ways of working that emerged during the colonial era derived directly from the demands of the colonial state. The most obvious was required and unpaid labor on public projects, such as building railroads, constructing government buildings and transporting goods." These are just some of the few things slaves encountered, in some places in Europe it was required for "native" African Americans to have ten to twelve days of labor over a year period. When it comes to Asian countries, they kept most of their trade and slave trade between their countries, which is much different from European and African countries.

Chapter 17 discussed the Industrial Revolution (1750-1914). This Revolution could be argued as one of the most important developments in human history. Many people would move away from their families in a rural area to the busy city for bigger opportunities and more money for their family. The percentage of humans to machines is much different to how it used to be without machines, many were considered craftsman working one on one with a product, now with more factories and machines, there are more people to one machine and they are doing one small part of the project. Products became more readily available and less expensive for the consumers and the owner of the company. The Revolution primarily happened in the U.S and Britain.