CHAPTER 14

In the beginning of chapter 14, it becomes confusing because my whole life I have celebrated "Columbus day" and considered it a holiday. The book considers people celebrating that the fact that Columbus went through a process of invasion. I find it odd that many people would use it as a celebration day and have many people around the world think that it should be a holiday when it really isn't looked at as one. It is similar in the Unites States, Russia and China that they consider it a legacy of the early modern empire that the building had continued to provoke the new millenium. Within the many different empires, they were all able to transform rapidly. They were able to destroy their old societies and their new societies were able rise up. I didn't like the European advatages that they were able to gain. European Atlantic states were well positioned for  involvement in the Americas. In order to have advantage they needed the Chinese and Indians to have such rich markets in the Indian Ocean  that there wasn’t much incentive to go beyond. The Europeans were aware of their marginal position in Eurasian commerce and wanted to change it. There then became a rivalry, the interstate rivalry drove rulers to compete. What caught my attention was the rise of the Asian empire, which were regional and not global. During this time there was a creation of Asian empires did not include massive epidemics and did not fundamentally transform their homelands like interaction  with the Americas and Siberia did for European powers. While expanding there were various things that occured such as Qing dynasty (1644–1912) launched the imperial expansion to the north and west, nomads of the north and west were familiar to the Chinese, China evolved to Central Asian empire, conquered territory was ruled separately from the rest of China through the Court of Colonial Affairs. The whole chapter mainly consisted of European, Russian and Chinese view of the early modern world.