"Ways of the World"
Chapter Fourteen: Economic Transformations
Commerce and Consequence
1450-1750
In this chapter I was in a sense exhausted to be reading about slavery. Not that I don't think it is important to be talked about, however, I think it is repetitive and similar due to the fact that I personally feel as though the same instances and concepts of slavery are taught in the same vague perspective. Aside from that I found it interesting and actually kind of funny reading about the section on A Portuguese Empire of Commerce. In particular the part, on page 673) where it said "the Portuguese king grandly titled himself "Lord of the Conquest, Navigation, and Commerce of Ethiopia, Arabia, Persia, and India." For one it's humorous in a way that he gave himself such a high and prestigious title and just the fact that it was extremely long. I personally would not call him all of that because its just a mouth full and ridiculous. In retrospect this chapter made me internalize the concept of how important and diverse the globalization differed in many ways throughout many cultures, races, and civilizations.
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