CH 16 Religion AND Science.

Chapter 16 is about religion and science, it wasnt founded on the muslim beliefs and evolution, many believe this is true, this chapter wants us to believe it was founded on christianity. europeans were the central people in the globalization of christianity and the emergence of science. they worked with each other and didnt act alone in the mdoern era. Asians, Africans and natives were the ones who would determine how it would be accepted or rejected. Christianity was limited to europe at the beg of the modern era, it spread from spain and england in the west to russia. During the 16th century the protestant reformation ended the unity of the catholic church, the roman catholic christianity for the past 1000 years had provided the cultural foundation of western european civilization. Women were attracted to the protestant reformation teachings and practices but it didnt offer them a greater role in the church or in society. in protestant areas it lead Christ a male the sole person who we need to worship, mary, and women saints ended. Dividing the churches led to a horrible political system it led to a difference in political views. the french society was torn. In 1545 it led to a catholic counter refomation. Science and enlightenment, what is enlightenment, It is a mans emerhence from his self imposed... inability to use ones own understanding without anothers guidance. this is according to Immanel Kant. Decision makers where individuals as agents. The famous english philisopher john locke offered principles for constructing a constitutional government.
Not all of the conflict was between chuch and science, none of thwe early scientists rejected Christianity, galileo procalimed the compalibilty of science and faith. There has been a lot of discussion about this topic in all of my political science classes. We all need to know where the catholic church started and why science came into religion.

The Founders of SND

This week has been all about the founders of NDNU. We learned who the two Foundresses of the SND were, Julie and Francoise, we learned about here different backgrounds, Julie was a member of the third estate and Francoise was and aristocrat with many privileges, she grew up in a religious environment. In school she learned the basics of living and how to run a household, she learned to cook, clean and sew. These are the basics we no longer see in the education system. Julie was promoted to write; she went to a religious school and helped those in need. Julie became paralyzed with multiple sclerosis, they drilled a hole in her foot to drain the blood and infection. They also put leeches all over her to help heel her body. They both were involved in charity work and helped those in need.

            During this week I learned some pretty interesting facts, when my friends would come to me and ask how we go the De Namur in NDNU I would say I didn’t know or just added to the schools name, I would even hear people say it was just a cool add on. Well I learned that the sisters moved to a different city in France called Namur which is where the Notre Dame de Namur came from. That was an interesting fact. I also learned the Cuvilly was also from the city of France.  

            I unfortunately did not attend any of the founder’s week events, it has been a very busy week, but I do know there were milk and cookies with the sisters, we had mass, and a one on one ask the sisters any question you have. This is a great way for the students of NDNU to learn about how and when NDNU was founded and why. I admire what these women had to go through to come here and create such a small school but we are able to get such a great education. It would be interesting to meet them or to have learned what they really went through during the time they lived in France.

           

Ch 15 Global Commerce

The Atlantic slave trade and slavery in Americas represents the most universal human practice-pg450. The atlanitc slave trade transformed African Societies negativley, it made it worse as a society, decreased population in Africa due to disease, by disease it slowed down Africas growth, it disrupted the political system and new ethnic groups came about. Slavery is illegal now a days because of the 14th amendment. Although it shares some characteristics of existing patterns as slavery today, the Atlanitc slave trade was distinctive by the size of traffic in slaves and centrality to the economies of America, the natives ended up dying off becasue of slavery.

The Europeans and Africans played a huge important role in the unfolding of the slave trade, european owners tried to develop an American and European economy. Africans played a role in trading as well, it was either trade or be traded, why did this happen, well it was the luxory of having power over other people, it was convient to own slaves and have them work for you. It was also a source of profit.

Africa became the primary source of slaveryfor the plantation economies of the Americas. Most of the Africans were black, there was racisim between the Africans and the Europeans. The demand for slaves was the main cause of tragic commerce. The impact of the slave trade derived not only from the loss of slaves but due to economic stagnation.

I took African Studies last semester with professor fitzgerald, it was amazing to learn about the cause of death during the stave trade and the routes the europeans had to go through to enslave the africans. Africans were traded to the north and south America, they were called indentured servants. The portuguese were the first to engage in the New World  Slave trade