THe Age of Empire Chapters 1-4_Patrick Garner

The age of Empire discusses the world during the years 1875-1914. Chapter 1 goes through the"Centerian Revolution. The author seperates the world into industrialized regions vs. thir world regions. The industrialized countries were the countries that took off with the advances in technology and economony, leaving the third world countries behind.Chapter 2 takes an in depth look at the economic changes that took place in the advanced parts of the world. The author describes how the economy shaped things at that time. The global scale of things was primarily based on wealth. Also, the rise and fall of ecomnomic cycles dramatically affected things as well.
Hobsbawm also discusses the rise of Britain but most importantly the fall of Britain when the exported goods to roughly 10 countries dominating the market. Chapter 3's main perspective deals with the newly developed World Economy. Basically, USA, Belgium, Netherlands,Italy,Germany,Great Britain, France, and Japan controlled all parts of the world outside of the Americas and Europe. The control of outher countries was mainly obtained from using an imperilistic approach. Chapter four then discusses global democracy and how it started. Many countries were new to the idea of democracy and were not quite convinced that this was the best way of handling global matters.

What interests me the most is the huge gap that technology made between the developed countries and the third world countries. It doesnt surprise me ho big the gap was from technology but it surprises me how fast the gap increased with technology. It was almost unfair how the developed countries jsut easily took over the undevloped countries. There was little the could do to stop the developed countries form taking over do to the technology. Most surprising though is that most of these third world countries are still third world countries today. What is taking them so long to catch up? You would think that they would have gotten the help to catch up. Should we be doing more to help this countries?

Global democracy is a good thing. It was tough getting countries on board with the idea back in 1875-1914. We still have that problem today,for example in the middle east. Will we ever have everyone on board with global democracy? If so, how can we convince them to join the rest of the world. It seems to me that the world is to vast to get everyone to agree and that it will never happen. This has been a topic the class explored before but I still find it a good topic especially since we have a little more knowledge with the idea now.