The reading of this week was manly about the different empires that were created and between 1500 and the 1800 hundreds.
There is a lot of material to cover and I will start with the main empires that were created during that time.
The Russians created a powerful and brutal empire. It was part of the vast tundra, the forest and grass land and was holding great challenges to come for the civilization.
It also brought in germans, ukraine, Belorussian and baltic people into Russia. Which was located between Asia and Europe.
The Russian civilization was part of the Mongol empire and was known for brutal was to get economically, military and commerce growth.
Because of some much different influence, you were able to find over 100 languages spoken in the empire. Which was also called the Ottoman or Turk empire.
The Russian and Siberians made create profit of their furs that they exported to America and all over Europe. It was a luxury item that people had great demand on. And this demand almost lead to the extinguishing of the beaver. The siberians killed deer, mace, beaver.
The russians got siberia under control because of their weapon power and the nomadic living siberians had no idea what weapons were.
The Ottoman empire was a Monarch empire which means it had one absolute ruler that commanded about his empire.
Siberia had barley civilization and only native people living there. After 1700 hundred the population went up to 700,000 people living there. But barley any native people left 30 precent by that time and around the 19 hundred went down to 19 precent.
The Russians now also depended on the produce and trade of grain, sugar, tea, tobacco and alcohol.
Like I mentioned before the Russians were brutal and also established the business of Prostitution.
But it was one of the strongest empires every seen.
Somebody said: "British had an empire" but "Russia was an empire" Which I think is a very interesting point.
It seems like you can create a great empire if you raise fear in people and your folk is fearing the effect on their actions for wrong behavior.
The chinese empire played as well an important role in the 18th century. The chinese were in contact and interacted with the Mongols, Xingjiang and Tibet and they agreed on the ecologically and culturally establishment to gain more world power.
Another part that I thought was very interesting was the History of Sugar.
Sugar started the slave trade in the bloody atlantic from India to europe where christian Muslims paid high priced for that sweet and valuable spice.
But like mentioned in our reading "Sweet Nexus: Sugar and the origins of the Modern World", It brought more harm than good to the modern age world.
Sugar was the most brutal and long-lasting way of planting. People described it as the burning hell.
The produce of sugar was driven by the "world system" which focused on the division between areas of accumulation and areas of explorations.
Which basically meant how can we make money the most efficient way without spending a lot and getting a lot out of it, so the white man can life in luxury items and control the trade market over the ocean. The import of Africans was inexpensive and you would have a slave for about seven years after that you can just replace him and buy yourself a new one.
The labor was hard and many of the slaves died before the seven years because it was physical unbarring, the temperatures were hot and the owners would not take good care of their workers.
But sugar stimulated the market and had great effect on the whole world.
For a while sugar was a luxury substance in the british new world. But became soon an essential for middle class as well. The slaves ate the left overs of the sugar and in our reading is also mentioned that the sugar could be harmful to people in a great amount.
Early on people understood that sugar is causing to interrupt the establishment of Africa and the population is declined and that we will have health issues.
Frederick Slare is saying that it can make people fat and woman will gain weight without knowing.
Also it is early known that sugar can cause cavities and back than the dental market was not as established as it is today.
What made me think that we are actually in a process of changing the future. More and more people know now that sugar is not as great as it was described back than. It was known as the" white gold".
We rethinking our inventions and try to become more ecological friendly. We try to use honey, agave, and many other natural sweeteners that are healthier for us.
The demand on sugar is still part of our economy and all the big food factories add sugar to everything because it can become an addition and tricks your body into wanting more. Which means for the industry more money and a greater demand. But cutting it our for a while is rebooting your own system and you don't have to depend on it anymore.
