Ch 13 - 15

Week 6 Post:

The Colombian Exchange was revolutionary to the Europeans bringing change to the Americas. From people to animals and diseases, all were new to the Americas and helped in a great development. During this time the Native Americans women were losing their domesticated role of food producers. Rice, sugar, wheat and other garden fruits and vegetables were being taken in the American land adding to the success of the development. Potatoes and corn had become essential to Africa and impacted a significant to the Europeans. The Europeans had gained big biological resources from their empires and began to gain wealth from gold, silver, and land. 

The global movement was growing from money, political stance, goods, and the economy. Long distance in trade in textiles, spices, silver and gold, deerskin, slaves and sugar, all have changed substantially. Production of goods, international currency, growth of Western civilization. It all needed to be established locally to make the commerce valuable. Portugal traveled from the West coast of Africa to the cape and then back up to the East coast, arriving at the Indian Ocean. By the 18th century, Europeans were eating from "china" dishes, wore Indian cotton textiles, drank Mexican chocolate, tea from China and coffee from Yemen. While sugar was from the Caribbean or Brazil. The economy was operating, with or without slaves, were expanding production internationally vastly. Early modernization globally was different still in parts of the continents.  

The early modern era had given birth to new cultural trends, the spread of Christianity to Asians, Africans, and Native Americans. Also the production of new science technology. Christianity was established strongly in the Americas and the Philippines. The cultural traditions were limited to Europeans in 1500, but now was growing to become a genuine religion across the world. Science was new to the world and beginning to shape the thinking of the Europeans. Through the modern era, people still established in Confucian, Hindu, Buddhist or Islam traditions, proving more opposed to the Christian meaning than those who "practiced more localized, small-scale, and orally based religion" (page 728). Spanish America and China explained the difference between societies, in which Christianity was widely practiced and still rejected to some. The Western Hemisphere was strongly incorporated with Christianity. Modern science was progressing for many people as if it was a new religion.