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Hi Iris, The image on page 803 of the “Colonial Violence in the Congo” also caught my attention and made me sad. It is still unreal to me to see the suffering of these Congolese and know that it is related to the white supremacist concepts that grew in the European colonialism. As Strayer commented, this was “a reign of terror and abuse that cost millions of lives” (p. 803) It was even more shocking to read the quote from one of the refugees describing the process: “We were always in the forest to find the rubber vines, to go without food, and our women had to give up cultivating the fields and gardens. Then we starved.... We begged the white man to leave us alone, saying we could get no more rubber, but the white men and their soldiers said "Go. You are only beasts yourselves...." When we failed and our rubber was short, the soldiers came to our towns and killed us. Many were shot, some had their ears cut off; others were tied up with ropes around their necks and taken away ...

Chapter 18 Colonial Encounters in Asia, Africa, and Oceania 1750-1950 Economies of Coercion: Forced Labor and the Power of the State The image below shows the Belgium Colonial Violence towards the Congolese during the late nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth century. Belgian King Leopold II ran the Congo Free State without supervision and was full of violence, enslavement, and exploitation of the Congolese. The two black young boys in the image had their hands cut off as punishment because they were not able to bring the rubber supply to King Leopold II because the forest rubber resources had run out. This was not an extreme case but a normal practice in the Congo Free State. This image shows how brutal colonial life was during the European colonization in all of Africa during that period. This was the time of the European Industrial Revolution when technology had advanced and Europeans needed more resources and labor to be able to compete economically, increase production and be...

1) What was The Great Dying? Cite examples and details from the historical record in your response.  Could this be considered a genocide? Why/ why not? The Great Dying started in 1492 and was the devastation of millions of Native American peoples who lived in the Mesoamerican and Andean zones. They got European and African diseases because they were long isolated from the Afro-Eurasian world, had no domesticated animals and therefore, were not immune to the numerous diseases Europeans brought with them, such as smallpox, bubonic plague, chickenpox, cholera, the common cold, diphtheria, influenza, malaria, measles, scarlet fever, sexually transmitted diseases, typhoid, typhus, tuberculosis, and pertussis. The impact of the Great Dying diminished the Native American population by 90%, killing approximately 54.5 million people (Vavra). The Great Dying can not be considered a genocide because the Europeans didn’t mean to bring the diseases solely to kill the Native American peoples. Th...

“Embrace the gift of diversity”  (The Hallmarks of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur) Hello everyone, I am interested in bringing awareness to racial equality of Muslims in the USA. I am not a Muslim and come from a family of diverse religious beliefs but was curious about the racism Muslims face in America. Where does this come from? Did it start with 9/11 or was that a tipping point? If not, what’s the history of Islamic culture and religion and when did it start to conflict with American culture and religion? The annotated bibliography was a very interesting assignment which prompted me to plan ahead of time and identify the main topics I needed to learn about. It encouraged me to engage with each individual source and analyze it in a more focused way. I enjoyed learning about the authors and publishers before start learning about the materials as it added more meaning to what they wrote about. In the middle of so much information and not knowing how I could start making a diff...

The Mongols were nomadic Mongol and Turkic tribes who shared the mountains of historical Mongolia in the north of China, between China and Siberia. Their empire was founded by Genghis Khan in 1206 and dissolved in 1368 when the Han Chinese Ming Dynasty took control. Genghis Khan reigned for 21 years until he died at age 65 years old. It seems like a short period of time, but their army, while under his command, conquered huge chunks of central Asia and China. His descendants expanded the empire even more to far off places such as Poland, Vietnam, Syria and Korea. The Mongol Empire reshaped the world geography, culture and history in ways that nobody would have thought of doing it before. Some people focus on the good changes and others on the destruction and brutality they caused. In this research, I found both reasons, for and against the Mongol Empire.  Talking points for the statement: "The Mongols got a bad rap. In fact, they should be respected as a significant civilization t...

The definition of the word Christendom is the qualities and characteristics of a group of people or nations under a Christian set of morals and values, the Christian World. In history, Christendom refers to the Medieval and Renaissance idea of the central place of Christianity in the lives, nations, countries and states of individuals. Starting in the 4th century, the first Christian to become an emperor, Constantine I, used his power to rule the Roman empire to be a Christian State, causing a huge transformation into inhabitants’ lives. Whoever lived in that territory became part of the Christian World and were treated differently if decided to choose to not be part of it. “Christendom in its earlier stages came to refer to Christians united into one body. This unity was very significant because it was a unity of religion, but it was also a political unity creating powerful alliances.” The East and West were united in believing in one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church. Christendom m...

https://www.ancient.eu/image/12023/historys-deadliest-pandemics/ HIV/AIDS PANDEMIC (AT ITS PEAK, 2005-2012 ) Death Toll : 36M Living with: 35M - mostly in Sub-Saharan Africa (5% of the population infected - 21M people) Cause : HIV/AIDS Where did it strike ? Democratic Republic of the Congo  Who did it affect? worldwide FLU PANDEMIC (1968) Death Toll : 1M Mortality rate: low mortality rate (.5%)   Cause : Influenza ( the H3N2 strain of the Influenza A virus, a genetic offshoot of the H2N2 subtype) Where did it strike ? Hong Kong Who did it affect? only 17 days before outbreaks of the virus were reported in Singapore and Vietnam, and within three months had spread to The Philippines, India, Australia, Europe, and the United States; 500,000 residents of Hong Kong, approximately 15% of its population at the time. ASIAN FLU (1956-1958) Death Toll : 2M Cause : Influenza - outbreak of Influenza A of the H2N2 subtype. Where did it strike ? China Who did it affect? In its two-year s...