Analysis Of How The West Won By Rodney Starks

I have grown up with a two different forms of family. According to Introduction of Sociology the definition of family is “a group of people directly linked by kin connections, the adult members of which take care of the children. Looking back at history the family was a father that worked and was head of the household and the women did all of the house work and took care of the kids. As time passed this thought of the perfect family set up slowly started to fade, as women started to work outside of the home. Now the normal family is called the nuclear family, this is two adults living together in a household with their own or adopted children. I am part of the 70 percent of America in the 1990s that had dual earning parents. Being the first

One thing that I have always been interested in is the capturing of the Americas and how that whole thing happend. One thing that chapter 11 brought up was why the western countries were always so behind everyone else in the idea of the science and technology. The answer that Starks gives is that the Native Americans had the smarts to create this type of technology but they didn’t see a need to do so. He believed that the Native Americans wanted to live life just as the ones before had. One thing that also affected the Native Americans were their immune systems. The Native Americans had never been exposed to the European disease, which lead many of them to die very quickly when the Europeans started to invade the land. One huge question that is asked about the pre- Columbian americas had to do with why did they never figure out how to work with metals harder than gold and silver. Gold and silver were too soft to make weapons out of. The pre-Columbian people were ones that didn’t see a need for change when what they had was

This is a chapter that talks about the rise of Protestantism. This was nothing but a triumph of criminal offense to Lutheran Germany. The Reformation is itself a misnomer, there were many different reformations including; Lutheranism, Calvinism, and Anglicanism. One of these reforms was led to Martin Luther. Luther made a huge impact of how he had ideas about the church that needed to be changed but no one in the church would listen to him, until he started to stir up so trouble. In chapter 14, Exposing Muslim Illusions, it talk about the different things that could affect the way Muslims were viewed. In one of the sections it talk about the existence of Rhodes as a western outpost from which the Knights of Saint John, allowed easier trading with more people and countries around the world. Earlier in the chapter it talks about the fall of Constantinople, which ends the existence of the Byzantine Empire. This allowed the spread of Islam to spread more openly without having the worries of being knocked down by the empire in