1) Colonization has been prevalent since the age of mankind, likewise with economics. The economics of the world heavily correlates to the pattern of colonization that swept across the globe in the 1700’s. In the eyes of colonizers, their duties were strictly to enlighten the people of these univillied nations while retrieving goods to take back to their people. Going to places like Africa and Asia, natural resources were abundant, so colonizers felt as if taking these goods were not a disservice to the natives, but rather they were spreading the wealth to themselves. For example, the Spanish robbed the Americas of their “gold, spices, cotton palm oil their timber”(p39) all while redirecting the wealth back to Europe. Many colonizers failed to realize the century long ramifications they would create. Conversely, the natives were extremely aware that they were oppressed, attacked and abused.
Along with the amount of despair caused in their home countries, the natives were often forced to go to their “parent country” in order to be slaves. This occurrence was certainly not by…
The Commons was described as a large open forest area that was open for anyone to utilize. In the modern world, there is no such thing as a Commons. With Andy’s lecture I can understand the comparison between the peasants of old England and the peasants of modern “poor” countries. The peasants of England were pictured as helpless, but even through all these adversities, the Commons were a place to go if all else fails. Peasants of today have no similar options, but instead are shut out of society and left to protect themselves. Something that the two parties share is that both lived (or have lived) in a society that is dominated by the rich. The wealthy have the power to control the resources the poor have access to like how the Commons were taken from the…
