tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8313752368184886397.post3678031144285391231..comments2023-02-28T07:45:51.853-08:00Comments on welcome economistdiary.com abedmooc.com,catholicuni.com : 4.4 what did abed mean by new university?chris macraehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15269142429457914077noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8313752368184886397.post-953209757645787822021-07-04T04:09:10.032-07:002021-07-04T04:09:10.032-07:00more? www.economistmaps.commore? <a href="http://www.economistmaps.com" rel="nofollow">www.economistmaps.com</a>chris macraehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15269142429457914077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8313752368184886397.post-52506362821226043202021-07-04T04:07:16.265-07:002021-07-04T04:07:16.265-07:00can we agree we got to world war 2 with mainly 7 w...<br />can we agree we got to world war 2 with mainly 7 white empires uk italy france germany russia canada usa together with one oriental one japan; before that in 1500 ten white empires were emerging - ie spain portugal and netherlands also played significant roles when the idea that the world was round, and excitement in discovering new and old worlds spread - while empire building did awful things like slaery, genocide, colonising other peoples natural resources risks to devaluing mother nature exponentially accelerated once scots discovered engine power in 1760s <br /><br />if we go back to the beginning of the 2nd millennium it seems that the roman empire had at last decided that harmonious trade across the med sea and the western gateway to 3 continents was more productive than marching north and west through france spain britain with catholicism as a golden rule; certainly by the time or marco polo and st francis leading western trade was seen productively as mediating a cultural relay of which the overland silk road was a marvellous co-creation of the old human race; at the eastern end you reached shipping when you got to hangzhou which marco polo was asked to be mayor of for a couple of year; oriental shipping had 2 choices north up the great canal to beijing; or up the river to the golden coastline that started where modernday shanghai is located and follows the smooth arc of china's sea round to the penisular we now call korea and within easy sailing sistance the islands of japan- fortunately there is one great western historian of the east's 2 millennia - ezra vogel who parted from this world spring 2021<br /><br />one of the most crazy things is around 1500 artistic and scientific italy knew far the most about navigation but most of its boating people were happy with trading round the med sea, and its entry to the silk road; but 3 most agressive navigation teams hired themselves out to spain, portugal, and the uk to mobilise big boats and the longest navigation journeys; this is how those 3 countries got first pick at colonising what became latin and north america; what happened next is quite strange; the netherlands settled in the best region for an east coast port (new amsterdam/yotk) but swapped this with uk in exchange for not competing over one indoesian isle in an era when nutmeg was a highly valued spice; the french went into overdrive competing with britain to colonise what we now call the southern states; they acelerated slavetrading to build great plantations; <br /><br />whats strange about legislature over usa indepenndence from 1776 is it was also a huge challenge of integration- there was the louisana purchase to the south east, the purchase of california from mexico; the purchase of alaska from russis; the agreement that canada became the largest roof top nation to the new world just as russia was the largest rooftop to the old world; from 1776 to world war 1 the new world got on with its own version of white empires rule; while the old world got into being the catalyst of both world wars- no wonder histoiy as an english language curriculum has always excluded lives matter of the 87% who are not of white ethnicity, and most women; i truly wish the un's forst 17 years had rewiritten world history before jfkennedy's assasination and the worlds rather superficial understanding of the american dream in terms of moon races which by 1963 seem to have forgotten the main reason for the un's birth giving back to those who had either been colonised ot in the case of the new world had the color skin of the majority of the worlds people but not the 3% of humans who were whitea americans <br /><br /> chris macraehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15269142429457914077noreply@blogger.com