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In this chapter it talks about the different religions and cultures in different regions. Today i'll be writing about the three main religions, Confucianism, Hinduism and Buddhism. In China, Confucianism became the main religion which was based on the ideas of Confucius. He believed that he could fix all of China's political issues, but he never got the chance. Instead, he taught his beliefs and complied a book of his teachings. Confucius believed that China needed order. In China family was the most important thing so that being said he focus everything on class and order. In a family the man is the head and most people assume the wife comes next, but not Confucius. He believed women should always serve men because they were superior. He was also a strong believer of education and felt as if it should determine class. Both Hinduism and Buddhism originated in India. This story I find particularly interesting because Hinduism originated because there was too much chaos in India....

Intro to part 2 recaps about the first civilizations and goes on to say how impressive, but vulnerable these civilizations were. When the civilizations broke down there was a thousand year gap before anything new arose. Between 500 B.C.E. to 500 C.E. new societies began to rise. Larger and new urban centers and states emerged and replaced what we know as the first civilizations. In chapter 3 it takes about what empires are. An empire is a term for a larger and aggressive states that conquer, rule and extract resources from other states. These include empires such as the Persian and Greeks. The Persians and the Greeks were essentially rivals. The Persian Empire was the largest of its time conquering and expanding its empire. The Persian empire was extremely successful and was wealthy and powerful. The Persians had a solid infrastructure, imposed taxes and expanded their commerce. The Greeks took a different route they did not aggressively attack other civilizations, but gradually took o...

This chapter was interesting because I learned that the first civilizations were far more advanced than I thought. The earliest civilization started between 3500 B.C. to 3000 B.C. Although thats when the very first civilizations started I wanted to write about the Indus Valley people. The Indus Valley people first emerged in 2200 B.C.E, in Central Asia. The civilization was "distinctive and separated" and it was extremely advanced for its time. They were not just a large civilization, they were bigger. Their civilization was surrounded by walls and gates to protect themselves from invaders. Although they were cautious about attacks they also allowed visitors into their boundaries. They did not sleep in huts like most civilizations because they had developed residential compounds, creating some sort of neighborhood. Within the walls they also had workshops and commercial exchange. The Indus Valley people survived using agriculture, stock raising and had an amazing irrigation s...

After the ice age came the Agricultural Revolution and something I found surprising is the new technology that was created during this period. Although new technology was discovered the gatherer-hunters techniques were used for a time after. When the new technology was discovered the paleolithic era soon became the neolithic era. The new technology was created because of the lack of many large animals which caused for the gatherer-hunters to slowly "die off'. Larger animals started to go extinct because after the ice age there was global warming which created many different climates that some animals could not survive in, but homo sapiens could. Selective breeding was considered "technology" because it benefitted all people around the globe. Farmers were able to create more from less meaning they were able to figure out how have less sheep, but make more wool then having more sheep and barely matching how much wool they could make with less of the selective bred shee...