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1) Hallmark #5. You can see the throughout the entire book. Right off the bat, you can Strayer uses a "feminist approach". He talks about a lot of women roles that not many history books tend to do.He did a lot of side stories of women who didn't conform to the "normal" things women were suppose o do.  He shows a variety of political, social, economic, and cultural traditions of the different regions not one or two to use as examples. He gave you a different view of different societies that you were not used to hearing about. For example, the Mongols. They were always shown as "barbarians". Strayer shows that they also let you kept your own religions and women were also consulted by Genghis.He gives you a detailed synopsis of all types of religion like Buddhism, Islam, Christianity. You learn about agriculture, nomadic, pastoral and how each of them shaped our history. 2) The book that we read really reached and met every learning outcome of this clas...

PORTRAIT PG 622-623 In this story, it talks about a women called Dona Marina. Why does a women need to be portrayed as a traitor to her people because she did something against the norm. As I read this story, I try to picture myself in her shoes. This women took life that gave her and never regretted what she did. I don't know what I would have done. I know I would be scared out of mind. She had been sold in slavery because her family wanted to make sure her half brothers gets the inheritance. She did get the last laugh against them. She came a piece of commodity to a Mayan Chieftain and then given away to Cortes. Along side with Cortes, she held the Spanish conquer the land. I think she didn't regret because she knew that it was something that kept from her from being dying. when you start reading this story, you start to think Cortes is a good guy to her but it just another man who only used her for what he could get. I don't think he could conquer if he didn't have...

The pictures in Chapter 18 are very descriptive of what was going on in Asia and Africa. . pg 882- It shows England as this big octopus using its long legs to show how the country had a connection to differen countries. It shows the great power and influence that they had. having a piece of each of the countries gave England a higher status a powerful country, pg 887-it is a map of South Africa. You can see very few areas that were independent African states. majority of South Africa was owned by different European countries. it looks like a puzzle that was put together with different shape pieces. It also shows the unhappiness that happen around the 1900's. Africa was used for the people and things that could be cultivate there. pg 894-image shows the brutality the Congo people had to endure if they didn't make enough rubber. King Leopold II of Belgium owned the land. It was very dictatorship  to the people who lived there. He would enslave the people to make rubber which w...