Colonial empires in the Americas

     While educating ourself about world history, we ask if we are still in the modern world. But what does the term modern mean? Modern relates to the present or what is happening now opposed to the past. World history has a variety of eras to cover and in this lecture I am going to be learning about the Paleolithic Era to Modern Era. In today's reading of the big picture, countries are starting to be modernized. China, Japan, India, an Europe are experiencing their first step on becoming the modern population growths as Eurasia recovered from the Black Death and Mongol wars. Other than the countries are finally turning turning into a modern world. The food products are also. For instance, corn and potatoes are starting to grow and provide nutritions to support the people on land. Moving forward to the 18th century, Japan became the one of the most urbanized societies in the world with Edo housing with over a million of inhabitants. Going into chapter 13 that talks about the Political Transformation Empires Europeans and African start to bring in their plants, animals, and wheat. Crops were needed to be picked from the ground so the farmers needed slaves. African American families became the farmers slaves and worked day and night. The slaves worked on sugar to produce estates in horrendous conditions. On the other side, the women were working in the urban areas but mostly for the white female owners where the women were just did some domestic chores. As time flew by, the Europeans transformed by its American possessions far more than China. The Europeans gained resources from their empires corn, potatoes and wheats in order to form gold, silver and land.