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Questions:
How does Great Britain have so many colonies?
When did they lose most of their stuff?
How did they rule? Force? Good laws?
Were there really that many independent nations?
How come the US doesn't have many colonies?
How come Japan only expanded to Korea and Taiwan?
How does Denmark have so much land?
Did the small countries really feel so small and unresourceful that they had to go bother other people?
Were there other European countries that tried to colonize and expand?
Who was nicer? Who was meaner?  How did these countries rule?  Did they keep the people they conquered happy?
Why does Britain decide to go everywhere?
What did all these places have that the European countries didn't have?

Dear Queen Victoria...Opium Needs to Stop...

In his letter, Lin Zexu describe his feelings towards opium with the word "poison" multiple times.  He also explain his feelings with the use of religious beliefs.  He basically said that opium was killing people and that it smelled bad.  He also said that opium was upsetting the gods and Heaven, which indicates that he thinks there are many consequences to the drug.  He also says that the opium is a "evil."  His description of the drug basically shows he attaches "death" to the drug.  The punishments for the opium peddlers definitely support Lin Zexu's perception of the drug.  He said that any peddler is sentenced to death because of the drug.  This punishment is really harsh but it definitely reflects how he thinks that opium kills people and that he thinks it needs to stop to prevent innocent Chinese people from dying from opium.  In other words, the punishment got rid of opium peddlers and it prevented other people from getting addicted.  It would help China because people would not be addicts and they would be living in real life which helped China.   

Industrialization and Words

Social Changes

Everyone can work since there are no skills necessary so men, women, and children are capable of making some money. 

More people can make more money because more money is being made per family, which can cause poorer families to become richer than others in society. This is also an economic change as the family income is changing.  

A person's value in society changes as a skilled person and an unskilled person are basically the same. So a shoemaker couldn't tell the average person that he's better any more because the average person can uphold a job.  

Political Changes

People want more of a say in government because they feel more important and think they should be able to make government decisions. 

Another political change could be the people who were in the lower classes while try to displace the monarch

Religious Changes

One religious change is that the people work so much that they forget about their religious beliefs and just focus on making money because that's the only thing they care about.  

On the opposite end, people pray more for their family as they want to be safe when they travel or work. They could also be pray more because they want more money(money makes people more selfish!) This can give the Church more power while the first one takes power from the Church.

Economic Changes

Some of these changes were mentioned in the social changes. But more people are capable of making money as the average person can hold down a job. Another economic change is that the society does not have a stable economy as more money and more product is being sent to other countries. Or the society makes more money because of the increased amount of trade.  

The actual meaning of the word liberal can explain the way that the people reacted. These people during the Industrial Revolution were not against change as they embraced the new ideas because these ideas helped their lives. Some were probably conservative as they probably didn't like the idea of jobs being done by the average, unskilled person. Some people were conservative as they probably didn't want their jobs to be taken by other people. The reactionary reactions were probably shown by skilled people who were like "No, you can't do that, that's my job, I won't be able to make money if the average Joe just did everything!" The people who were radical were probably like "This is awesome! It makes my life great and we should have more new ideas!" I think the majority of people were liberal as they liked the changes and embraced them.

Political

Response to Niall

To his first question, "Is it possible to delete these apps?" It sounds to me that he is implying that we can  delete these apps. Based on his presentation, I feel like it is possible but it would take a a great amount of time to delete any of the apps. But  I think app number 6, work ethic, may be the easiest to "delete" because people, especially Americans, are lazy.  That leads to the second part of his question, "Is the West deleting its apps?"  I think that the West is probably deleting app number 6.  However, the other apps seem like they can't be deleted as easily because they're important parts of every society.  The reason why it is may seem like they are "deleting" these apps is probably because the other countries are slowly getting closer. When I say they are slowly getting closer, I mean that I think that all the countries are in a race.  They're all running to try to beat each other to the end.  At the beginning and right now, the West seemed like it was running fast and strong and it was ahead of the others, but the countries that were last in the beginning of the race are making a strong comeback and the West is unaware.  So, I'm trying to say is that the other five apps are harder to delete but once the other countries get them downloaded and get a hold of them, they're going to be better than the West and back to race analogy, the West is probably going to lose if it doesn't update its apps.  

To his second question, "does the sequencing matter?"  I don't think the sequencing matters.  Maybe the way they're downloaded matters, but maybe not when they are downloaded.  I guess Africa could get it wrong, I don't want to make a conjecture(Vocab word! And..this is going to show how oblivious I am to the world), but I don't really know what is exactly happening there, I should probably get to some form of news.  But if Niall is asking this question, I'm assuming he or other people think Africa is going to get it wrong. I guess if these apps are forcibly downloaded and misused then a country could "get it wrong."

To his third question, "Can China do without App number 3?"  No, China needs app number 3 because it protects an incentive.  People need an incentive for everything.  Property has always been a motivator for people because they just always want to own.  It's human nature to want stuff and to own it.  If people didn't want to own things, other people, businesses, to be honest, anything, there wouldn't be competition or a consumer society.(that doesn't mean that I think competition or consumer society needs to be downloaded first.)  Property rights ensure that the people's property is protected.  If China doesn't download that app, then people won't feel like they need to care about anything.  Like John Locke, I think selfish motives(they aren't bad, selfish just has a negative connotation) drive everything and without property rights, China would be missing that drive. 

Fucan's Relationship with Christianity

Fucan is pretty personal and wishes he never converted to Christianity.  He believes he wasted so much of his valuable for nothing because he never got anything out of it. He refers to it as the religion of the "barbarians" or the Europeans because they were seen as uncivilized to most of the world.  Fucan also refers to Buddhism as the "Great Holy True Law," which shows that he is convinced that Christianity is full of lies. He includes Confucian learning to emphasize the point that Christianity offers little truth and one must adhere to Confucian learning instead.  For this time period in Japan, Buddhism and Confucianism could be followed together while Christianity tells them they can only pick it.  Fucan focuses on the "native learning" that some Japanese people turned to so they could preserve traditional Japanese beliefs and culture.  Fucan includes the militaristic aspects of Christian followers.  He repeatedly says they destroy places and includes places that had been swamped by missionaries and military trying to overthrow countries.  

Ships, Slaves, Crew Members..the Battle

The crews of slave ships took great measures to ensure that maximum profits from their business of transporting human cargoes.  The ships themselves were overcrowded and people received little personal space to none.  The slaves were squished together so that the ship would hold the maximum number of people.  The crews gave the slaves food so that they wouldn't die of starvation.  If a slave refused to eat, they would go to great pains to get him to eat.  They would force-feed the slaves so they would not be losing profit.  If they refused to eat food, they would get punished so they wouldn't do it again. Along with the force-feeding and punishments, the ships had nets to prevent slaves form jumping off.  The crew also watched the slaves carefully to make sure they didn't attempt to escape  and if they did they would get punished.  Some of the slaves were chained as well to prevent them from escaping or committing suicide in a different way.  Basically, the crews of slave ships used many ways to make sure they didn't lose any bodies. 

Africa Map: Trade and Kingdoms