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Cultural Transformations Globalization of Christianity Christianity was basically limited to only Europe in the beginning of the Modern Era but then in the 1500s it spread out from Spain to England and West Russia Later on it divided and created other branches of religion such as: Roman Catholic of Western and Central Europe, and Eastern Orthodox of Eastern Europe Protestant Reformation  Began in 1517 when priest Martin Luther brought attention to the various abuses within the Roman Catholic church such as: corruption, "immortality to some clergy, etc. Martin Luther taught about the "new understanding to salvation, only through faith alone", so basically faith was considered a free gift. He believed that religious authority was not something to be taught in the Church, but the Bible said otherwise which lead to people challenging the authority of the church.  Martin Luther brought and created socials tensions and religious differences Protestants vs. Cath...

Evelyn Garcia-Martinez Patricia Andrews  World History II February 05, 2018 Women's Rights: The Evolution of Women Rights I am writing about how women rights have evolved through history and what changes have come because of this evolution. I will specifically be looking at what kind of moveme nts pushed the evolution f women rights and how society has reacted.  1.) Boulding, Elise.  The Underside of History : A View of Women through Time . Westview Press, 1976 The Underside of History : A View of Women through Time is about how   and where women learned dominance, dimorphism, and sex roles. It also shows and explains how the  changing roles of women from Paleolithic  times to the present have pushed the women rights movements to new levels. Elise Boulding was a sociologist, a pacifist feminist, and scholar. This book gives me further knowledge of the repressed and "invisible"lives of women and the conditions women h...

January 23 Chapter 14(second half) -Asians and Asians Commerce  European political control was limited to the philipphines, parts of Java and few other Spice islands Japan was one of the few islands that Europeans could not penetrate Japan had feudal lords, known as daimyo, and its own warriors samurais By the early 17th century, remarkable military figures unified Japan because of the Tokugawa clan  closed their country off from the emerging world of European commerce although maintained their trading ties with China and Korea. -Silver and Global Commerce  Silver trade gave birth to global network of exchange Spanish America produced around 85% of the worlds silver during the early modern era Chinas huge economy demanded great amounts of silver Much of silver shipped across the Atlantic to Spain was spent in Europe The largest mine in the world was in Bolivia, with horrible conditions for the miners Latin America's silver enriched the Cr...

January 18 Chapter 14 -Commerce and Consequences  The Slave Trade was a component of the international networks of exchange that that helped build human interactions throughout the centuries European worked their way into the ancient spice trade of the Indian Ocean which developed new relationships with Asian societies as a result Silver obtained from mines in Spanish America enriched the economy of Europe -Europeans and Asian Commerce  The voyage (1497-1499) of the Portuguese mariner Vasco da Gama in which Europeans sailed to India for the first time was the outcome of deliberate effort to explore a sea route to the East by slowly down the West African coast around the tip of South Africa to finally across the Indian Ocean in 1498 (in other words it was planned in a sense) Had the desire to look for tropical spices such as cinnamon, nutmeg, mace, cloves, pepper Chinese Silk and Indian Cotton -A Portuguese Empire of Commerce  ...

January 16 Chapter 13: -European Empires in America  Spanish directed their focus on the Caribbean when trying to build their empire, then in the 16th century they moved towards the Aztecs and the Incas empires because of how fragile and vulnerable they were Portuguese established themselves along the coast of Brazil -The European Advantages  Portugal, Spain, Britain and France were closer to the Americas than Asian competitors Fixed winds of the Atalntic blew in the same direction European mapmaking, navigation, sailing techniques helped them when traveling  Economics were in a good place  Began growing sugar, tobacco, meat and fish Missionaries wanted to enlarge the belief of Christendom Many just wanted a fresh start and new life   -The Great Dying  Aztec and Inca empires had no immunities to Europes diseases such as the smallpox, measles, typhus, malaria and yellow fever which lead to Native American people died in a in...

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Hallmark 1 We proclaim by our lives even more than by our words that God is Good The significance of the artifact that I am presenting is to represent the mass which was held to honor the birthday of La Virgen de Guadalupe. I included this into my portfolio because I have not attended a catholic mass since I was six and this was a was bittersweet experience to re-encounter after so long. The first time being back in a catholic church felt weird yet nice because it brought back memories that I thought I had forgotten. The mass did have a positive impression on me by opening me mind to a old yet new belief that I have not officially practiced or participated in. I know about catholicism and what it consists of in its belief system but I was raised in the christian community which has a few differences but has the same bases as catholicism. This mass clearly connect to Hallmark 1 because it helped people become closer to God and because it was a part of their developing relation...