Reflection 6

The "European Moment." As Europe continued to flourish, it's advancements begin to pave the way for the modern world.  Europeans during this period clearly became the most powerful and influential.  People all over the world began to make active use of European ideas for their own purposes seeking to gain advantage for themselves in many ways.   With this Eurocentrism grew.
Moving through this chapter revolutions occured some of which occurring in north america france haiti and latin america .  These important revolutions paved the way of how we shaped our world today and the way countries are run especially America .  Our famous North American revolution war which  ultimately resulted in independence from oppressive British rule was one of the  events that occurred during this time.  This also was the beginning of the creation of what we now call the United States .  Also enlightenment thinkers in the 18th century have become increasingly critical of slavery as a violation of natural rights of every person.   Actions of slaves themselves  begin to speed up the end of slavery .  Through these revolution's new worlds for human beings were opened  and old worlds of oppression exploitation and privilege  were being swept away .  It was persistent injustice that made revolution necessary. 
On to industrialization ......  All over the world  market based economy for being developed by the 18th century .   In the americas, europeans found a large amount of silver and other commodities  that allowd them to operate in asian and other markets.  At the same time europe's scientific revolution also took form in great britain in ways that  fostered technological innovation.   In addition to europe it seems as if many of the other countries were experiencing an industrial  revolution.  unfortunately for some of the other countries the ways that their government  operated may not have been conducive to the progression of their industrial  revolution .  In those countries that was still many injustices against people.  Russia although, begin to have a booming industrial revolution  by the 1890's mostly fueled by railroads heavy industry.   Also striking my interest was a snapshot table of the industrial revolution in the global divide showing world manufacturing output from 1750 to 1900 .  This table shows progression of many of the countries and their industrial contributions . 
moving on to colonial encounters .  the europeans had made many colonies in colonial empires throughout  the world .  living in colonies was difficult for some of the experience a lot of violence during the conquest and also afterwards .  it was to the advantage of many to cooperate  with the colonial authorities, many of the people found employment, status, and  security in the european military forces.  in these colonies racial issues  became evident  and racial separation became much more pronounced  in some places.  in the  colonial era religions also provided  the basis  for new or transformed identities.  widespread conversion to christianity took place in new zealand in the pacific islands and especially non muslim africa . 
christianity was all so widely associated with modern education.