Similarities & Differences between Islamic and Asian Empires

Similarities:
-Ruled by centralized monarchy
   -Caused by the early military rulers
-Stopped Technological innovations
   -This happened because this was their way of attempting to stop the destabilization that they thought was caused by change.


Differences:
-Asian
   -No more value for warrior class
   -No value for woman in Gov't
     

-Islamic
   -Warrior class held importance still
   -Value for woman
        -In nomadic societies, woman were respected, which probably influences this

Ottoman, Savafid, Mughal

Bentley and Ziegler probably grouped these empires together because of all the direct relations between them. They all had absolute monarchies (with military leaders), were all islamic, and their locations were somewhat close. Honestly though I think there could have been better grouping with these places, but perhaps there was not enough information to give these their own chapters, or maybe bentley and ziegler just got lazy.

Fabian Fucan's Attack on Christianity

Fabian Fucan's attack on Christianity focuses on his preference and promotion of Buddhism and Confucianism over Christianity. Fucan considers Christianity and Christians as a whole barbaric(cultural). According to Fucan, the Christians have attempted to take over other religions and countries in previous times(historical), and that historically the Christians will always attempt to do so(political) . In addition, Fucan criticizes Christians as barbaric martyrs.

Qing/Ming map

Qianlong letter POV

He had a condescending ton in his letter; probably because of his surroundings. He had always gotten what he wanted and the eunuchs were always there to serve him, so he really had no reason to speak to him otherwise because outside of his little bubble, he didn't know much

History's predictive value

History's predictive value holds true. The patterns seen from the past (dyanties, in this case) show that events or standards can be predicted. The patterns used from past dynasties can be seen to effectively predict "future" events in coming dynasties. An example of this is on Mike's blog, where he predicted that China would focus on traditional values, and it came true. He used the information from past to project... THE FUTURE.

Predictions: Mine were wrong :(

The preditctions I made based on the pattern I thought I saw were incorrect. My prediction for the Ming was somewhat close in that the duration was sort of close, population also.

For the Qing however, my prediction barely held true, the duration was completely off. And the population was
Nowhere near my prediction, much higher than my prediction.

Mong and Qing predictions

Based on the duration and population patterns:

The Ming:
- Will last around 200 years
- Population will be around 145-155 million

The Qing:
- Will last around 60-70 years
- Population will be around 165-175 million

The pattern of the duration seems to be a long and short period. And there seems to be steady growth in population.

Three graphs.

The first graph shows steady population growth in Africa from the 1500's to the 1800's; it grew from a "small" 35 million all the way to 60 million. This means that every 100 years or so, the population grew steadily at 7 million.

The second graph is describing the increase in the number of slave exports from the 1600's to the 1800's. the thing i found surprising about this was that the way the graph was made, almost made it seem that there was a huge gap in the population from slave exports, when really the total population growth made that seem like not so much.

And in the final graph, a pie chart, we see different destinations for the slave exports. Most of the slaves were sent to the caribbean, where the importance of sugar was. I found it interesting how so many slaves were sent to one place, even considering the fact that sugar was immensely important, there still isnt much land for all those slaves. But then again, the owners of the plantations had no concern for that,

These graphs did not really add any information to what I knew already; but it definitely helped me grasp the information better.