Chapter 23

I think what I found most interesting is that globalization had so much of an impact on countries in a good way that immigration became such a boost in the US. On page 1145 it really shows how much change happened through the development. The inequality of the people that lived in low income was so explicit that you can obviously tell there weren't that many resources for those countries to support their people. For example, in the deaths of infectious diseases aspect of globalization there is a high percentage of people dying because of the income as a whole. This goes back to the countries wealth and how important it is for a country to have money and give back to its people.
Some of the issues that rose up from globalization was womens rights and feminism as a whole. Different countries took this issue in different views and I think the Muslim community was the one that did not take it to well. According to Strayer they opposed the equality of inheritance for women and men.

Chapter 22

During this chapter I learned that two of the countries that struggled the most with obtaining their freedom was India and Africa. The people of India believed that they knew their own people more than foreigners did. An important thing that I learned is that Ghandi married at age 13 and was an intellectual student at the age of 18 he was offered to go study law in England. Ghandi's believes were very revolved and strong around using non-violence to make his point. Along with this he also created a political philosophy , he didn't want a drastic change to happen in society but more of a transformation of people's morals.

Revolution, Socialism, Global Conflict

Communism was described by Marxist theory because of how society was collective and socially equal in a sense that there was no private property.Communism was taking over Asia, Russia, Korea, and Vietnam. In Vietnam a locally based communist movement was under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh as it said in the book (Strayer, p. 1037). The Russian Revolution was one of the most powerful and fast revolution that took in the year of 1917. I think an important event that happened in 1917 Tsar Nicholas II had lost control of the country and that's where the power shifted and the revolution started. When a powerful figure in a country is pushed off power because of the people that's when revolutions start and that's been the case.

China & The Ottoman Empire

What I learned the most about this chapter is specifically how China struggled to get by the European states and trying not to give in. Three of the main challenges that China faces are the military pushes and the political ambitions that European states push through. Another thing was industrialization because China did not want to give in to industrialization. Instead they suffered the consequences and they were not able to keep up with the demand regarding the crops. China was so unstable that it did not collect any taxes, or did not have any flood control or social welfare. The Taiping Uprising was probably the light in China for women and men because of the power that they gave to the people. They also promoted change in marriage since in the past marriage was planned based on family interests and now they were changing things around by promoting mutual attraction over family interests. They also gave men and women a equal opportunity to buy land.