Week 4- Making connections*

Miguel Briseno Jr
HST 2020-01/World history
May 29th, 2019
Prof: Patti Andrews

                                                                Week 4 Blog

So, silk was that important? Interesting to learn that silk played such an important role in the commerce trade. Trade transformed the world with the invention of the silk routes. The Chinese people were also able to rise in class with the accumulation of wealth; land, property, resources. Trade also spread peoples ides from one part of the world to another. Although not as fast as we think today, trade spread people's ideas. Innovations were sent all over, and religion. Trade has enabled people from all around the globe to prosper, well, depending on who you ask. 

  Trade also played an important role in the destructive side of history. It spread disease which killed millions. It nearly wiped out the entire Native American population when the Europeans landed in the west searching for land, and riches. I get from these chapters that trade was an important part in the transformation of the world. It helped with the altering of the world. Who knows what the world would be like if individuals throughout history had not tried. Organized Trade created communication among us humans thereby altering the world, a great feat that was accomplished by mankind. 

The WORLD Chpt.1/2

    The world has been slowly evolving for for some 13.7 billion years, the rough estimated age of the universe (Eric W. Nelson, Robert W. Strayer). We are new; literally. It was interesting to read that for 3 billion years, life remained at the level of microscopic; or at a single-cell organism. This makes you wonder about all the diseases that are slowly migrating back into the world, the silent killers, the unknown micro-organisms still undiscovered. Will we ever find cures for certain diseases? It brings it all back to the three C's- Change, Comparison, Connections, all these things combined make up who we are today. We are all connected in some way or another. The history of the world has had many tremendous changes since its formation. Man has been seeking comparison from other men since the beginning of time. The connections are many, some good and bad, but in order to grow as human beings, man needed to evolve and it surely did. The possibilities of humankind growth are endless because of our abilities with technology, and our connection with others comparisons on a daily basis- the growth possibilities are ever changing and exciting.

                                                                                                                   

"Yay - I'm done!"

"Yay - I'm done!"