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1) “Hallmark Five: We Embrace The Gift Of Diversity.” In what way does Strayer’s textbook,  Ways of the World , reflect Hallmark 5 of the SND de Namur? Strayer is able to reflect NDNU's "Hallmark Five: We Embrace The Gift of Diversity" through his textbook, Ways of the World by getting the reader to understand and view points of history through different and sometimes extremely subtle lenses. At the beginning of the book he provides us with gatherer-hunter idea. This was the first time I have heard this throughout all my history classes. Another was his reference to the Huns and how they should be considered a Civilization based on their contributions to the world during their time. He tries to remove past bias's the reader my have and questions some fundamental preconceptions people have based on prior history classes.  2) Please refer to the learning outcomes in your syllabus for this class. Did the course meet these outcomes? Were any of the outcomes not ...
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Technological Era (Class Discussion)

Technological Era ·       Race between human and machine ·       AI / automation ·       Globalized corporations replaced colonial empires ·       Privatization vs Government exploration (expansion)
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Its really hard to imagine a disease today that could decimate nine-tents of the population or even nine-tenths of a race and how that would effect the land, the economy, the population growth and more. Then on top of that you have the planet fighting to eradicate the human race, with a mini ice age, a drought in one area and hurricane weather in others followed by more disease from mosquitoes. During this time misogynistic views and thinking really became apparent. I wonder what was the big turning point for this to occur? With todays consumerism and everything you could ever want at the tips of your fingers, to think that a driving motivation for people during that time were tropical spices is crazy. Another thing that has been bothering me is what if humans were just able to work together, how much more advanced would we currently be?
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Strayer really brought me back to 7th grade when reading about the Silk Roads and Sea Roads again. Its really bizarre to think that when the roads originally started, people were walking and not using animals for transportation. Also it seems that once the Sea Roads were established economies seamed to flourish more but with the accelerated trade came more death. Im starting to wonder if the reason religion is as big as it currently is; could be due to the fact, that people back then did not have the technology/science, that we due currently, to help their sick family/friends from the foreign diseases. Im curious which of the 3 main "roads" of commerce was more treacherous. It seems at this time in China women's role in society was even more then in recent history. However, compared to other cultures they were some of the most restrictive. Lastly its great how
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This read was very interesting. It seemed as if the more force and the quicker a civilization rose to power the quicker it fell and the more it was forgotten. One main theme tying a civilization to its people seemed to be with China and the root of Confucianism. This deep rooted religion can be related to another flourishing civilization, India. Through Siddhartha's teachings, Buddhism became a huge role in unifying people with the polytheistic view unlike Confucius and Daoism. However, just because these two civilizations has the base root of religion to fall back on doesn't mean their cultures were anything alike. Strayer states the "Chinese and Greek... focused more on the affairs of the world and credited human rationality" in their way of understanding the world where "India, Persia, and Jewish intellectuals... explored the... relationship of God or the gods to human life"(pg 148). Basically these two different groups of people looked at their lives thr...
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This is done
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