Madison Rambles History Again

Hello, everyone! Well, today is the day. The slavery associated with the Americas appeared during this chapter's time period, and this is the best time to talk about the subject. And I won't just be talking about American slavery. We all know about the horrors of slave ships and plantations, so I will also talk about the Caribbean and Brazil. This is a serious subject, and thus, I will not do as much joking around as I normally do. This is the second part of Chapter 14 . The slave trade changed history forever. Roughly 12.5 million people from Africa were transported from Africa to the Americas and Europe. Roughly 1.8 million of them died on the ship, leaving 10.7 million to work as slaves.  It was a lot of people. This kind of slavery was unlike any of the previous kinds. Slaves back then were still treated as human beings, and none were born slaves. However, in America, they were treated like cattle. Once you were a slave, all of your offspring are slaves. It was ...

Hello, everyone! The Chapter 14 reading was split into two parts: one on trade, and the other on slavery. At first, I was going to put both of these into one blog post for convenience, but I decided that it would be better if I followed the assignment and split them into two. The first part today will be on how Europe was terrible at global trade. The second part, which will happen next week, will be on the very depressing topic of slavery. As I said, this is on Chapter 14 . Most bad things start out with what people think are good intentions. Europe's problem with slavery started with them wanting to make money in the global market. As a geographical location, they had very few valuable things to add in the Indian Ocean trade, so they had to strategize. Portugal tried to monopolize the spice trade by conquering potential trade posts and creating a fee for the Red Sea route. However, they could only control up to half of the spice trade, and thus were unsuccessful. Spa...

Hello, everyone! I was relaxing over the weekend, tired from the first week of school... until I realized I had reading to do! So I tried to stop being lazy and read over thirty pages in the span of roughly an hour. As I was reading, I quickly realized what the chapter was about: European colonization. It's not the most pleasant to read about, but I know it is very important to learn about the crimes against humanity Europe performed on the Native Americans and African people. There is a reason why slavery is illegal in every country, and that is because we have learned from the horrific unpaid labor people had to endure. I will be focusing on  Chapter 13 . Everyone in America knows that Europe loved to conquer. It started with Christopher Columbus in 1492 and continued with outbreaks of smallpox and other diseases. Racism followed, with a hierarchy based on race forming in the Americas. But no place was the hierarchy stricter than what would become the United States of Am...

Hello, everyone! Welcome to the return of Madison Rambles About History! This time, I'll be talking about the modern era, and why the Early Modern Era of 1450-1750 is not that modern and Eurocentric. That may be a shock to people who have learned about Christopher Columbus and the diseases the explorers brought to America, but our Modern Era is different than Christopher Columbus's Modern Era. It's as if they're two different time periods that have been stuck together... This is the Intro to Part 4, or, as the book calls it, The Big Picture: Debating The Character of An Era . First things first, there are some similarities between early and late Modern Era beyond "humans and farming existed." For example, Europe did have significant interactions with the Americas, some good, some atrocious. The city of Edo, now known as Tokyo, grew to become the largest city in the world. And Europe fell in love with the concept of science, leading to the discovery of ce...

Hello, everyone! I have to create a new history blog for class, so here's the sequel! This will be summarizing and talking about points in history... but it will be about modern history. Get ready for me to talk about the era of history I love most, and the one almost everyone loves most! Sorry this is short. I thought I had to introduce myself again, first. Until next time!