#QianLongStyle

The point of view in this document is one of arrogance. As the king has been isolated in the forbidden city for his entire lifetime, he believes that he is superior to everyone else. Also, being the emperor of China, he is therefore the "son of heaven", and thereby superior to others. Finally, Chinese history is one of dominance, and therefore be has no reason to be polite, and he can be arrogant if he wants to.

History's Predictive Value

Based on our group's predictions for China's Ming and Qing dynasties, history can be a relatively accurate way to predict the future of a region. Matt's prediction about population was right on the mark, and my prediction of the gender structure and religion of China was correct. When given the background information of knowing the continued patterns of the region, the future can be accurately predicted. Even when given a sudden change, like China's isolation movement, predictions like Amit's on economics were still correct.

Religious and Gender-based change in China

Religious:
As Confucianism or some variant has been present throughout much of China's history, I expect it to continue through the Ming and Qing dynasties.

Gender-based:
Patriarchy has been present throughout China's history as well, so I expect it to continue.

Both of these predictions were correct, with gender structure becoming even more extreme, and neo-Confucianism was continued.

Jeopardy Game

https://jeopardylabs.com/play/apwh-chapters-21-26 (Work in Progress)

Slavery Charts

Chart 1 is one showing the overall population growth of Africa from 1500 to 1800. Chart 2 shows the increasing amounts of slave export from Africa from the 16th to the 18th century. This shows the increasing dependence on African slave labor for the rest of the world. Chart 3 shows the location of slave exports, with most going into the area where sugar is grown. Charts 2 and 3 support information already provided by the book, where the Western world became almost addicted to using slaves for sugar plantations. However, Chart 1 was contradictory to my previous assumptions, as I thought that because of the lack of able men in African society, the overall population was not increasing much. The chart, however, shows consistent growth regardless of increased slave exports. 

Social Hierarchy in the new world

There were colors, but the inbuilt save to camera roll function didn't get it...

Voicethread review

So overall, the app was decent. It did its job, allowing me to post pictures in a slide show, and then comment on them with text, audio, and video, while also allowing doodling on the pictures. However, the execution of the app is very poor, as you are only allowed to comment a certain amount of voicethreads before you cannot comment on anymore. This is not discussed anywhere, and you are not warned. One of the major glitches was that the app did not keep the order of the pictures I entered in. I didn't not notice until I was halfway through my audio recording, making me restart. Another major glitch is the privacy settings of the voicethread a created on an iPad. Occasionally, a voicethread will be set to private, with no way of changing it from the iPad. This is fixable, but still a nuisance. The app also crashes with out warning quite frequently.