Similarities and Differences between Central Asian, Chinese, and Japanese empires

Religion was an important role in government decisions in both the Islamic Empires, which were the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals, and the Asian Empires, which included the Ming and Qing empires in China and Tokugawa in Japan. All of the empires do this because it offers the rulers a guideline to follow and gives them a structure of power and control to rule over their people. The two groups of empires differ because the Islamic Empires allowed women to play unofficial roles in the government so if their husband was away conquering lands, the wife would step in and take control over the government and have rights while the Asian Empires gave women no rights.

Why the three empires together?

Bentley and Zegler dude combined the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals because they are all in the same general area, and because they share a lot of similarities and some differences. They are all of Turkish decent. It's a shift in the text because they used to have their own chapter, but we are getting closer to the end of the year so maybe they want to squish everything together to give us a break(?). I hope it stays like this because it's easier, but it should stay the same because the world is getting more connected now rather than empty spaces between empires, they are now filled with kingdoms and places.

Fabian Fucan (awesome name) Rejects Christianity

Fabian Fucan rejects Christianity for several religious, cultural, historical, political, and social reasons. Some religious reasons for why he rejects and attacks Christianity is the fact that Japan was regarded as "The Land of the Gods", meaning they had plural gods...more than one... and Christianity is a monotheistic religion. A cultural reason for why he casts off Christianity is that Buddhism and Confucianism were more normal Japanese philosophical beliefs so he felt that he should be more traditional. The political reason for Fucan's attack on Christianity is that Japan's rulers were seen as heavenly and Christianity looked down on this belief, no sons, or children, or anything like that from God. As a social reason, Fucan rejected because Christianity was looked down upon by many Japanese, they weren't very well liked and weren't really outcast in the sense of being exiled, but no one really wanted to associate with them. Those reasons are why Fucan rejects Christianity, or at least those are what I think they are.

Ming and Qing in China

Reason for Qianlong tone

The point of view of Qianlong in his letter to England is very arrogant and condescending. The reason for this is because Qianlong has no idea what his actions will bring. He's been raised thinking that he's the best and has the best empire in the world. He believe that he needs to help or trade and that everyone else is beneath him. It's just plain old ignorance to the reality of his country and people that makes him write this letter in that tone.

Qianlong response #Qianlongstyle

1. Well someone sounds kinda snarky. He gets stuff from a king then gives the other king stuff. But Qianlong sounds like he's mocking him saying "O King".

2. Wow. This guy thinks he's the sh*t (sorry, pardon my French!). He calls his empire "Celestial" and that ambassador a barbarian. It's kinda funny. He's totally snarky and sassy in the way this letter is written.

3. He insults Englad...he insults the ambassador and everything about England. He talks about the other nations too, he makes it seem like China is the center of the world.

4. Orders England to never come to China. He seems to do showing them "mercy".

Making Predictions off of History: ehhhhh wrong! Don't do it!

History does not help make predictions because some people did make one predictions. It's a 50/50 chance to make a prediction and to get it right. Becki thought that women would have more fits in the future, like many other societies of the time, but they didn't. In fact, they got even less rights and were claimed as property now. She thought that they would get more rights because of trading with the world, but China actually closes itself off in the future and no contact with the outside world. Fm this evidence we can see that using history, you can't make accurate predictions. "Even the smallest person can change the course of the future, no matter how small"-LOTR. History is constantly changing and so is the present, so it's hard to figure out what e future will hold when it hasn't happened yet.

Review Game

So, Becki and I made a review jeopardy game for th chapters and we did I it and finished it and saved it, and we definitely made one since we did it in class....but it says it doesn't exist? So whoever is coming to my blog for the review game, check Beckis to see if she found it.

Slave graphs

For the first graph, it is showing how the growth of slaves increased from 1500 to 1800 and r population doubled. Not really surprised about it. When slaves get taken, the people there have to make more of them to replace the ones lost. It's not exactly a happy thing, but yay for more people?
For the second graph it shows the number of slaves exported by year from the 16th century to the 18th century. This graph isn't very happy either. I'm surprised that from that time, the number of shaves exported is like 10x more from the 16th to 18th century. It's sad. About 55,000 people were taken from their homes and probably never saw their mothers, fathers, siblings, children, or friends ever again :(
For the third graph it just shows the percentage of how many slaves went to the Caribbean, Brazil, Central America, and North America. I'm not surprised that the most amount of slaves went to the Caribbeans and the least amount to North America. The Caribbean was where all the sugar plantations were and in North America, there weren't that many plantations that needed large scale amounts of slaves.

Did these graphs help my understanding?
Yes, yes they did. It's one thing to read about something and then to see it mathematically. Sometimes words don't cut it, but numbers on a graph that compare the words appear more clearer and easier to understand.