Chapter 13 overview

Michelle Curran
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Chapter 13 

- As an overview of chapter 13, it starts off with political transformations (empires and encounters). The time period of this chapter goes through the 1450s all the way to the 1750s. 

- Strayer first brings up Putin (the ruler of Russia) and writes about how Putin tries to take power from other countries (Ukraine). Moving forward, it goes on to the 20th and 21st centuries. This section explains the imperialist and how they worked. Then went on to talk about the Western Hemisphere (the Spanish, Portuguese, British, French, Dutch). Types of people who were brought up were the Native Americans, Europeans, and Africans. It states that for the first time in world history these cultures meet and have contact with one another.  That also includes the types of different religions like Islam, Buddism, Christianity, Hinduism, Muslum, and animistic relgions. A phrase that would sum up this whole section would be cultural encounter. This chapter talks about different European countries and the Americas working against or together to gain power. It goes on to explain the different centuries(16th, 17th, 18th, 20th, 21st) (there is a helpful timeline on page 555).  Topics like colonization, building, transporting over bodies of water (The Mediterranean, Indian Ocean, Chinese regions, Atlantic, and Pacific) and diseases come up. 

- Later in the chapter, it goes on to explain the different empires like the lands of the Aztecs and the Incas, the Russian empire, Asian empires (China), Muslims and Hindus in the Mughal empire, Muslims and Christians in the Ottoman empire. Also not forgetting the process of each empires colonization.