Today we reviewed all of the content in Chapter 14 - Economic Transformations. This chapter covers 1450 - 1750. We looked at events around the world during these three centuries - from Portuguese traders eclipsed by those from Spain, England and the Netherlands searching for and establishing profitable trade routes and relationships between Europe and Asia. We learned about the role of the British and Dutch East India Trading Companies and how India becomes a vital Asian trade partner with western Europe. Under the Tokugawa Shogunate, Japan closes its doors to European influence and trade in the 1600s. Like China, Japan will turn inward and remain isolated from the western world for nearly 200 years. Spanish trade and dominance in the Philippines, South and Central America was also covered. France establishes dominance in the North American fur trade while England engages in the slave trade, kidnapping African peoples, transporting them to the Americas via the horrifying Middle Passage and forcing them into lives of oppressive labor and racism in the mines and plantations of the Americas. The diaspora of African peoples impacts and permanently alters world history. Anna worked on highlighting Chap. 14. She did a good job and I reviewed her highlights and added to them when necessary. She should have this skill down in no time - especially when her own textbook arrives by our next session.