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This book feels biased. But it also could be I’m biased against the book. The main argument I say is that it doesn’t argue the entirety of America is in a stringent caste as it claims. Rather it claims and supports itself that the South did. This isn’t to wash the hands of those in other parts of America. More so to show the extremes in the South and how it could expand at that time. Yet it still contradicts.

The gory details make you want to look away but then you have to face the fact it happened. Almost makes you wish it was just macabre fiction.

The comparison to Nazi Germany’s racial laws feels odd. On one hand it shows the depravity of what was allowed in America at this time, but on the other shows that they both wanted different things. I don’t think the nazis shunned it. They had a different goal. Genocide.

I feel very iffy about this book. I don’t think the comparison is strong but I’m not familiar enough with the caste system in India to be certain.

Much shorter chapter, quickly shows how the world became even more interconnected. More so shows how wealth was distributed off two continents while the African continent was left relatively alone. This is due to the southern edge lacking any noteworthy resources to them at the time. While northern Africans were actively in global trade.

I’m on chapter 12 I think, it’s now moving out of the peak of the Silk Road and towards its collapse. By collapse I mean the point where it stops being interesting to me.

From here it will just talk about the current system we have today. Where countries are trading from across the globe and how it begins. Which I’ve already inferred just from my own research.

Really interesting look into China and the details that would eventually lead up to the opium wars. The impartiality is enlightening and makes one understand it never was one sided in any regard but a tense peace that worked with what it had.

Just finished the mongols, slavery and faith. The slavery indirectly led to the mongols stopping in the Middle East. Faith led to the overzealous of Europe and the Mongols.. well they’re the mongols you know the story.

Pretty interesting so far, gives further context on just how behind Europe was for so long. It puts a dent in a European exceptionalism view. But it does struggle with trying to put more of it on a single region. That being the Middle East rather than acknowledging it’s a global effort that brought great change to the world rather than the effort of one region.