Chapter 14: part II

 As the Russian Empire begins to rise to a high power the chapter reflects on empires such as Spanish and British maybe the main reasoning for success of the British and Spanish was the independence that they gained. Russia ended up collapsing up until the point the Soviet Union in 1991. Religion becomes a big part of conquering land in Europe, and the Americas. By Europe being centered in both the trading system and world, it made it easier for them to create a major impact on present day America. What conquest was done without suffering of the people that were originally there? I have taken World History since 8th grade and various histories in between that time and each time I learn something different. Whether it be because the teacher teaches history through their point of view or because the text book takes a different approach than one that I have read before. Starting with the uprising of empires and exploring the world around their native homelands sets the tone of greed for power and land, the more land your country acquired made you the most powerful. You were able to climb the hierarchy to the top if you were to gain land and know what to do with it. As the chapters go on it is more likely that the rise, fall, and collapse of each empire will reveal how America will fall and then collapse in the future.