South Asia

People call 21st century an Asian Century because of Asia’s rise, which leads to a huge change in global power and opulence to Asia or more precisely, move to Asia after peculiar centuries. The inferences for Australians and Australia are intensive, and also they will effect on every part of both external and domestic policy. It is considered to be perilous to extrapolate from the trends that are current. But comparative growth rates of economic, investment and trade patterns, defense capacities…

modern-day currency (Watson, Peter 2005). Trading between countries has been happening for ages. Trading around the globe effected how religion, culture and resources were distributed throughout the ancient times. Northern Africa and China, in Eastern Asia, had major roles and much experience when it came to trading in ancient times. While the Chinese and people of Africa were trading, the Mayans and the Aztecs were also trading with each other. The ways of trading was completely different from…

Environmental changes have had huge effects on the whole world. Although it affects all of us, the bigger and worse impact is on the poor people of developing countries. This is due to their lack of ability to help themselves. They do not have the resources that they need to at least adapt if not make it better. We live in a selfish-minded world which means the people who have the greatest ability to help, do not. People of more developed countries, whether they are rich or poor, are the biggest…

Contact between different areas of the world is both beneficial and disastrous to the people and regions involved. Relative isolation allowed civilization in the New World to flourish, but imperialism in Europe threatened everything that had been established. When Europeans arrived in the New World and interacted with the natives, catastrophic diseases decimated the population, foods and plants were transported all over the world, animals were introduced and domesticated for their helpful…

DBQ .Using the documents, analyze the actions and reactions of people in the Middle East to restrictions placed on the rights and freedoms of women? 2. Identify an additional type of document and explain how it would be helpful in assessing the people’s actions and reactions A recent survey posted in the In Afghanistan show that 30% of muslims say that women should not have the choice to wear a veil. This is one of the many countries in the Middle East that are very conservative when it…

Southeast Asia by 1760 (Document 8). In this region, companies of various European powers established numerous trading factories, becoming a strong force in Asian commerce; but the facts that these foreign companies had their own law systems and militaries and that they controlled regional imports and exports shows just how unsuccessful these Asian societies were at limiting European contact. These invasive European settlements prove that prohibited trade between Europe and Southeast Asia…

Both pieces speak of the bias of ethnocentrism from the west in accordance to the middle east. History is seen only by what is contemporary at the time according to the first piece by Abdullah Laroui. Within the second piece by Edward Said he is clarifying about his book over orientalism and the continuation of the same thinking that people see the middle east as a picture that does not move since it is not the same as those who are looking at it. Additionally both pieces remark about the issues…

Without the documentation of events and cultures which occurred and thrived in times before our own, little to nothing would be understood in the present, especially with respect to cause and effect. Why does one believe the earth is round?, and how does one distinguish right from wrong, extending further than trial and error? Many subjects have been taught to the general populous of the western world many years predating technology. Regions of the world itself were discovered by adventurous…

transportation. Modern day countries such as the United States, Russia, as well as regions of Asia and the Middle East have roots in different cultures they have come in contact with. The structures of these regions have come from a history of global interactions which have brought them to the state they are in presently. Interactions between cultures have ultimately, shaped the world in which we are currently living…

Modern Colonial Modernity Colonialism and modernity, two sides of the same coin. For five centuries, colonialism and modernity have profoundly formed the cultures of the world that have been classified under European standards. The rise of European dominance since the 16th century has a deep attachment with modernity that helped shaping this rise. Consequently the construction of modernity and its enlargement during the colonial periods has impacted the rapid industrialization, urbanization,…