This will be my last blog of the semester, perhaps the last blog of the year...maybe even the last blog ever, but it has been fun. I am a bit disappointed that there wasn't any discussions going on at all with any of my blogs between students but I will keep my blog up for a year for others to look back to it and use it as a reference if they wanted. I hope everyone had a good and fulfilling semester. It is always sad to say goodbye, so I will just say I will see you later. Even if things were kind of rough this semester, my classes were great and my teachers were even better. I will miss everybody and I hope for the best for all. I normally get emotional at the end of every semester and this one is no exception. I am truly going to miss the good and the bad I have had at NDNU.
The next history course will focus on three more later centuries, between the years 1450 and 1750. The reason why most students seem to take the second World History class first may be because these years that they study are more recent and may be easier to relate to, rather than learning about the earlier years that deals a lot with theories more than it deals with concrete evidence.
These next few chapters will deal with the voyages that the Europeans to took across the ocean, and how goods and ideas were not only traded between neighboring countries as we spoke about in this course, but between distant countries, like the Americas. These later chapters are going to deal with the globalization of the world and how it all began. One of these great ideas that were exchanged accorss the ocean was the Christianity religion.
Part four also deals with not only trade and development between Europe and America but also struggles within the Asian and African continents. The rise of the Ottoman Empire is another topic that will be expressed in the newer chapters and how it took control of most of Eurasia. There is also the Scientific Revolution in Europe made a lot of changes in the way people viewed the world and their life. After the recovery of the Black Death the world's population more than doubled.
Much will be covered in the next history class. It will be much like this pasted history class, were we will look at Europe, China, Asia and African. We will be studying about the kings that will rule Europe, the new dynasties in China, and how cultures, and people will change and adapt to the changes around them and increase in development. We draw close to our current age that we are in now. These ages are called, by Stryer, the Early Modern Era and the Late Agrarian Era.
Many interesting topics will be covered in the second part of the World History course, many of which are actually quite interesting and perhaps easier to be able to follow along with. The class may even have a different mood since these newer topics aren't as challenging to read about as it may have been in this first part of World History. While reading this intro chapter, I feel that I may not actually have a hard time learning about most of this, mainly because I remember learning about a lot of it and most of it can be intriguing to dive deeper into, much deeper than you would in middle school.
Well that's it for me. As I look through my blogs that I have posted throughout the semester, I come to realize that I have actually typed a lot! Some of my posts are extremely large in length and I actually don't remember typing that much. I guess I type just like how I talk, and not realize how much I have said...but anyways, it has been fun, and I hope all will have a great Winter Vacation. This is my final goodnight, I hope everyone grows and becomes stronger as they face newer challenges that are just waiting over the Horizon. Farewell to all.
Thank you Professor Andrews for being our teacher for World History. I have said it once, and I will say it again, we couldn't have had a better teacher teach us history, a subject that can be incredibly boring. Allowing students to express themselves and give our thoughts makes a super effective way to learn. I thank you for this opportunity. Have a good Christmas Holiday!
by Andrew Murillo
