Ferguson and his SIX killer apps.. why only six??? :O

Okay, so Ferguson talks about the six 'killer apps' which I do agree upon on. First one was competition; there is competition everywhere in this present time. I guess it's just us humans like to be better than others and somehow bring the other one down! I kind of disagree with competition being only western thing, I mean, there was competition before the 'western side' was even colonized. For example, daimyos in Japan (couldn't think of any other example). Second killer app is the scientific revolution: I do agree with him about this; I believe this should be one of the top things because westerners did come up with a lot of things in science! Third app was property rights. I do agree with him about owning property, even though western method differed from the one in Latin America. Number four was Medicine!! Definitely a big one, though I kinda don't agree with western side being the top one behind the medicine! Ancient civilizations did use medicine.. I guess what he was trying to say was the population increased which led to more money and western side became more advanced! I'm not so sure if I agree with that. Fifth app was the consumer society: once again, I'm kind of not sure about this since I believe that it's not only west who traded and produced goods; there were others as well. And last one is work ethic which I do agree with.
Another thing he mentioned was that the Great Divergence is more political than geographical, which he proved it in his sense but if you go back in time, geography did play a major role with the success of the civilizations and even empires.
I actually liked this TED talk but one thing I noticed was that he is very full of himself! It also felt like he was taking 'west' side and saying westerners were the best and came up with everything.. you might disagree with that but hey, that's the way I felt like!

Wow! I actually get to criticize a (school) book without teacher minding it!!!

According to me, chapter 28 is a huge mess. The information given in this chapter is not organized, and really, if you look back to the chapter, you will notice that there is more information on Ottomans rather than Safavids or Mughal. So why did the textbook authors chose to put all three Islamic empires together in one chapter? - well, in order to make separate chapters, you need creative titles and may be the textbook authors just got lazy with their creativity! I do not know what they were thinking when they 'created' this chapter; may be they thought it would be easier for students, or may be they just got lazy! Because you definitely need more information in order to make separate chapters or else it would be a chapter of a page or two with the information given on Safavids and Mughals. Personally, for me, I think this chapter was a mess with all information just messed up together.

This period of global interactions was definitely a good thing; if it wouldn't have happened, people would still be living boring lives! You could say this period brought in more colors in people's lives! It is always good to exchange ideas, cultures, traditions, food products, peoples, etc; I mean that's how modern world works!

Fabian Fucan REJECTS Christianity.. Noo wayy

Fabian Fucan converted to Christianity at early age but later he considered it as his mistake! So, he condemns the Christian faith by supporting Buddhist ideas. He attacks Christianity by describing the Christian faith as barberic, evil thing! Culturally, he attacks Christianity by saying that its mission is to destroy Japanese cultural traditions and bring in "their traditions". Politically, he attacks Christianity by saying how "they have dispatched troops and usurped Luzon (the Philippines) and Nova Hispania (Mexico)". Historically, he describes how Japan was without Christianity before! And now Christian missionaries are here to destory the history as well as cultural traditions, the reason why he attacks Christianity politically as well. In social aspects, he pretty much describes Christianity as bad and 'evil' and he is trying to prevent people from converting to Christianity; according to him, Buddhism is the best!

Chapter 26 Project :)

So since we could not do showme all together, we divided up the sections of the chapter and everyone did their own! Here is the order it goes in:

Part 1 (696-700)
Part 2 (701-704)
Part 3 (705-710)
Part 4 (711-715)
Part 5 (715-718)

Capitalism.. Hmm i think i know now!

Alright, so capitalism is an economic system in which there is a competition between companies/businesses/merchants and they run the state. Due to growth in agriculture and new techniques of manufacturing, the competition increased. A technique known as supply and demand, in which a businessman would buy cheap goods from a place where it was easier to find and sell it somewhere else where the goods' prices would be high because it would be rare to find, was used in a capitalist system. Also, the private parties organized institutions and services, such as banks, to promote capitalism. This resulted in higher stock-exchange in Europe. The stock-exchanges created markets for investors to buy and sell shares in joint-stock companies. The trading companies took advantage of communications and transportation networks. So pretty much, capitalism  led the society into more economic and financial direction with 'cheapness'. 

Christianity splitting... Origin of dilemma!!

Hmm, Christianity keeps on splitting, because there were new ideas evolving due to Renaissance. It keeps on repeating in history; everytime there is a new idea or reform or something going on, the religion changes. May be people just like to see new things rather than sticking with their old ones! Nah, can't be true though! Anyways, what I believe is because of new ideas, the religion changes and keeps on splitting. I guess people started to have new ideas and may be it was hard to maintain the old belief with people who have new various ideas. Due to Renaissance, people started to think in different ways and their beliefs of 'what the religion should be' like changed.

Capitalism? I absolutely have no clue what is capitalism! Might have heard it last year or so but I clearly don't remember.