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- hyperglobalizers: a new single global economy transcends and integrates world's major regions, de-nationalizes- skeptics: international interdependence has intensified without producing a unified global economy, world is breaking into blocs, most powerful states consolidate- transformationalists:globalization is spacial reorganization and rearticulation of economic political power, developments in one region can influence distant parts

-globalization is the historical process by which the world is being made into a single place with systemic properties-the world is now globalized-interconnections of some boundaries and dissolving of others-if u think globalization is a myth this will lead to a superficial understanding of history-revolution in social sciences

-started off with song and dance-ancestors only became human when we created language-consequences of intensified communicatuon

-historians and other researchers take SEPARATE NATIONS-by turning names into things we create false models of reality-the way history is told is misleading because it is told as a moral success story

-Matteo Ricci brought map to china, they got upset because they weren't in the center-islam thought earth divided into 7 climes: moderate climes like med, or iran was more advanced-trend that people think of themselves as the center of the universe

-one of the deepest and most recurring images of the "other"-anyone who studies the orient is an orientalist and what they do is orientalism-orientalism as a western style for dominating, restructuring, and having authority over the orient-the orient is not essentially jsut n idea

-shift in the process of altering our entire view of religion and its social and psychological impact-focus is not on subjective life but on socially available "systems of significance" like beliefs, rites, meaningful objects in terms of which subjective life is ordered-semantic approach-we look/try to understand the way of looking at the world through religion, not how to describe the supernatural-ethos: how things are done

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-how did the mongols become so succeesful? they faced divided enemies (christians, mongols); tolerance, and military

-events in 15th and 16th century are reduced to being prequels of american history-example: mongols had unified most of afro euarasia-world was not global until oceans were crossed (oceanic revolution) because the ocean went from a barrier to a connector-america is seen as the center of history, but it "cannot be appraised except as a part. Of this revolution in human existence'

-europe was a big part in facilitating the role of the world trade; middlemen of silver trade-intermediaries in trade between the new world and china-china had more of an impact on the west than europe had on china

-Africanization: when Africans revived society and culture to wherever they were taken

-europeans downplay the scientific discoveries of other regions, like the arabs and even filter them out (everything before 1500)1) too technica; society is not seen as a big part2) everything between old and new europe is put in a black box3) story is told as an event- western science infrastructure rests on borrowings of china and nonwestern cultures

-universal recognition of the ideal of human rights can be harmful if universalism is used to deny or mask the reality of diversity-some arguments for authoritarian government in interest of economic development (lee hypothesis)-argues that there is a presence of tolerance and freedom in parts of Asian traditions*asian values used to justify authoritarianism is not especially asian-asian cultures do not support the idea of the clash of civilizations

-enlightenment thoughts:1)nature: natural laws2)reason: reason, not faith, can help man face problems3)goodness of man: man in naturally inclined to do good unless corrupted by ignorance and prejudice4)progress: man has moved, is moving, and will continue to move forward5)secularism: separation of church and state6) toleration: locke and voltaire advocated religious tolerance7)intellectual freedom: freedom of though and expression8)education: child comes into the world with a blank page; school is the most important in shaping the human mind9) economics: buying and selling, producing and consuming were to be free10)government: people should be able to overthrow government that violates natural rights

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-liberal democracy in The west is lacking-ways to improve: participation and power-liberal democracy: protects individualism and is practical(it works)-direct democracy: more popular control and extension of democracy-marxists: material equality before political equality-feminists: recognize the difference between different votes

-influenced by thomas jefferson and rousseau-not entirely equal; does not include rights for women and slaves-very vague and left up to interpretation

-capitalism is similar to stealing-ideas of free labor and the industrial revolution-corruption and exploitation, profit seeking

-says that there is not a clear beginning or end for the industrial revolution-did not only occur in europe, which is what is usually thought-some places are still undergoing an industrial revolution-what constitutes and industrial revolution? the increase of output of goods and individual worker output (radical changes to technology and organization)-still in the process of industrial revolution