Part four talked about the modern area and emphasized that it was not set in stone who held the most influence in 1970. It was interesting to read that Europeans did not have a grand amount of control on China and Japan. In fact, during the eighteenth century, China and Japan controlled the European missionaries and merchants who intervened in their societies. Additionally, African authorities had a huge say on the way that the triangular slave trade was processed between the European authorities. During this time period, women were still not viewed as individuals capable of owning land. Those who got a say for the most part were rich males that owned land or offices. Although our definition of modern means bigger changes than the ones that will be discussed in this chapter, during that time period these were the ideas that were placed and enforced in their societies.