Somaly Mam

Somaly Mam is about a young girl who explains her story of what happened throughout her life. She thought of herself as "ugly" because she was dark skinned, because you are considered beautiful when you have a light complexion. She was put in this situation because the man she was living with most likely sold her. She referred to this man as "grandfather"and because he "belonged" to her she was his "indentured servant". What he does is rent out her labor for living with him. He jobs were first to fetch water for people then her grandfather owed money to a merchant and sent her to his house where she had her first sexual encounter. She was still very young when this happened and thought that he had been stabbing her with a knife. Her grandfather also molested her, but because she didn't know exactly what was going on she thought they had been punishing her. As she got older, she was sold to a soldier and forced to marry him. She wanted to get a job so she worked at a clinic. He didn't really approve of her working and always beat her and felt like she wasn't married, but more of his servant.

Chapter 15

The spread of the slave trade had begun during this time. The slave trade was the only one part of the international spread of networks in the world. The Spanish and the Philippines is an example of just that. Spain and Portugal was competing with one another to spread through the world. The Spanish established a base in the Philippines, named after the King of Spain, King Philip II. The first who went to the Philippines was Ferdinand Magellan. It was easy to take over the Philippines because they didn't have one central government, they had individual governments that made it easy to take over. The Philippines remained under the Spaniards control until 1898, where the United States then gained control. Some of the major effects the Spaniards had on the Philippines was building missionary areas for the Filipino society to focus on the major religion of the Spaniards and the country, which was Christian. Spaniards introduced forced relocation, tribute, taxes, and unpaid labor. They also made large estates for Spanish settlers, religious orders, and for the elite Filipinos. Manila was the major center of diversification.

Part 4 & Chapter 14

The Early Modern Era began in the 1450s and ended in 1750. To many of the historians, the term "early modern era" were used to suggest that during these three centuries we can find signs of a new era being born by the change in globalization, societies, and the growth of what is now called continents, especially for Europe.  One of the major changes was in globalization because of the many voyages they went on traveling through the oceans. They were able to spread out and expand their empire. The Western European empires had taken over most of the Americas by maritime expansion. A maritime voyager had three main things in mind, Gold, God, and Glory. When discovering the Americas, one of the main voyagers had been Christopher Columbus. When they had met the first peoples of the Americas, they referred them to as savages. Christopher Columbus had very mixed thoughts about the savages. He thought they were friendly, gentle, they handsome structure, and they thought of the men were so strong that they had the strength of 40 or 45 men. They already had a plan of taking over the land, but found that they didn't have to force them to convert them to their lifestyle. They were able to convert them to their religion and their lifestyle. But because the aboriginals weren't use to some of the things they had brought from Europe, they had gotten sick causing the "Great Dying", which drastically changed the numbers of Native Americans. It cause 80-90% to die, and exposed them to new diseases. Which did help the take over of the Americas.

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