Revanant

I had the chance to see this movie about a week ago, I found it very interesting. Spoiler alert in case anyone hasn't had the chance to see it yet. The movie focused on Leonardo DiCaprio's character's Glass revenge on John, (Tom Hardy) for killing his son. His son was mixed and John pointed that out a lot, even picked on the little kid for it. Glass got mauled by a bear really bad, and the captain asked for two men excluding Glass's son to stay with him for a few days and care for him until he healed. At this time he also had a fever. John and another character was volunteered to do so. A few day's passed, and John kills Glass's son as he watched, and was prevented to fight his son's killer back due to his condition. John told the other boy that was with him that Glass's son was no where to be found, and that they needed to leave behind Glass, and his son because the native's were on there way to kill them. The boy had believed him, and they left Glass behind. After doing any and everything he could to survive his journey back to his captain, the captain who was told that Glass had died, was faced with new information. A hunt was then made to find John, and in the process the captain was killed. Glass receives his revenge and the movie ends. Though revenge is not something I promote, I did think that Glass earned it after what John had done. John was a racist, and he murdered an innocent little boy. If Glass hadn't gotten his revenge, someone else would have. It was a great movie as far as survival for the time setting but as far as my taste in movies, it was okay.

Chapter 15 (715-739)

The Catholic Reformation on page 723, discussed how the Catholics decided to break away fro the protestant view. Before the protestants, they had rules on priest education before the protestants took over, so during the reformation, they wanted to restore their beliefs and became even more strict than they were before. This involved locking down the area, and flushing out the bad with new rules. For instance, putting more emphasis on priest education, censoring educational readings, ridding the area of heretics, and creating a new "motto" for their religious practices. I found this section to be very interesting when I'd found that the Catholics were even getting rid of people to take back their religion. I had a few questions that came to mind, it was mentioned that they burned the heretics, but I wondered how they went about finding heretics. What was the procedure they took in finding them? Were there women and children involved? Did they make it public or keep it in the dark?

Chapter 14 (669-687)

Between 1450 and 1750, the Atlantic slave trade was developing. This is the time that shaped how humans interacted with one another. Also taking place during this time was, Silver being obtained from the mines of Spanish America, and fur from Siberia. Western Europe was gaining many benefits from the Silver and Markets were booming in both Europe and China. These key places became the countries that shaped the Modern Era. During the Voyage that took place in 1497 and 1499, for the first time India received new visitors fro Europe. In this conquest to India, the motivation for making this long boat ride was to retrieve spices like, cinnamon, mace, cloves, nutmeg, etc. Some of these spices were claimed to be aphrodisiacs, and some medicinal. My question is during the retrieval of these spices, was it civil or violent? And if it was civil, what did the people of India get in return for the spices? Currency? Land? Or something else?

Chapter 13

Part 4 Intro (610-615)

This section discussed the Columbian exchange, and the transfer of plants and diseases. Also discussed was missionaries forcing conformity onto others and the scientific religion transforming in Europe. Due to some of these factors, their was a population change in some countries. These countries were, China, Japan, India, and Europe. The population in these areas doubled between the early 1400's to 1800. During some of this time there was a limitation in military for the mainland of Asia and Africa. This promoted a spread in Islam through those countries.

Chapter 13 (617-649)

In this chapter the ending to the Soviet Union came crashing down on December 25, 1991 around 7:30p.m. It was described that the signal that proved this was the flag being dropped. This had been the end to the communist party. Because the Soviet Union was so big there was a split in the states, which returned some old names and produced new ones.

Chapter 14 part deux

Chapter 14 - Commerce & Documents

Commerce

The thing that sticks out the most for me was The Middle Passage painting on Page 691 that illustrated the slave ship. To see how they were stored on this ship as if they were just random packages and not human beings was upsetting to me. Looking at the picture med me feel as if I was in their shoes. They were bunched up, without elbow room, it looked like it was cold out in there. They looked like they were barely being fed. Could you imagine going a few hours without food? A day? A few weeks? Maybe a month? Bones showing through your skin, fatigue, can't get up and do anything? How hard do you think that would be?

Documents

As I read this first Document on Olaudah Equiano, though it pains me to read about slavery, though I have not faced any of the painful things that my ancestors have had to experience, this only reminds of my favorite history class I was able to experience not too long ago. African American history is an intriguing subject. I can definitely relate to the large numbered family Olaudah had on his fathers side. I am so close to my brother I could not imagine having him ripped out of my arms as a child. When I was younger I was very dependent on my big brother and looked up to him.

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