08-Day the World Took Off
Before class on Feb 5th, watch Part III (250 years) of The Day the World Took Off available at
http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/global/roots_narrations.htm The video is also available at YouTube as well as Cambridge University’s DSpace. You will post your summary and response to the points in the video before class
The seminar at Cambridge selectively included in the documentary is available at
http://www.alanmacfarlane.com/global/converse3.htm
(extra credit if you add a 2nd post on the seminar as well as the finished documentary)
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February 4, 2008 at 8:00 pm |
Part III (250 Years) of the film The Day the World Took Off, shows the development of the import export age. It goes back 250 years ago and talks about how such a small country came to take over trade. It stated that at the end of the 16th century one wouldn’t have guessed that Britain was going to become the king of global trade and that Holland would have been looked at as a much better contender. But with the Ottoman Empires wealth and sophistication in addition to all the goods they had to offer which is what put them at a place as the core of trade, they were looked at as much more promising candidates than either Holland or Britain at this time. The film also talked a lot about the Dutch, and their wise habits with money and spending,where instead of spending money, as an alternative they reinvested it, and in addition they later created a banking system, which later other civilizations had also made use for as well as made modifications to it. On the whole, although the film wasn’t as engaging as I expected, this film was still instructive as it made quite a few points I wasn’t familiar with prior to watching.