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Something that I found really interesting was how Islam came to be. It all started with Mohammed Ibn Abdullah. He was born in Mecca and lost his parents at a young age and eventually was cared for by his uncle. He worked as a shepherd to pay his uncle and make his own money too. He then became a traveler and at the age of 25 he married a wealthy women and had six kids with her. Mohammed eventually became mesmerized with religion but was upset with how much corruption and social inequalities there were in Mecca. Like Buddha, Mohammed had a powerful religious experience. He believed that he was the Allah’s messenger and was supposed to speak his teachings to the Arabs. What Mohammed did was recorded in the Quran and became sacred Scriptures. Everything that Mohammed spoke was believed to be the word of God and it became the core of their faith. What Mohammed had spoke of was revolutionary to the Arabs.

The silk, sea, and sand roads are the largest reasons as to why culture spread. The first to be established for the silk roads which was an exchange across Eurasia. The reason they are called silk Road it’s because silk was the luxury good that was most wanted by other cultures and what was exchanged the most. Although the silk roads were known for exchanging more luxurious items it also carried livestock such as camels. The Silk roads did not only trade goods, but it also traded cultures. due to the trade of livestock diseases also were treated as well. This was the greatest consequences to trading on the silk road. Another road known as the sea roads is the exchange across the Indian Ocean. The sea roads was the largest sea based system of communication developed. The largest Seaborn trade was in the Indian Ocean basin and it had the largest cosmopolitan exchange. The sea Road was meant to carry more goods in bulk such as textiles, pepper, timber, rice how much more. This was another...

Something I found interesting were the three supercontinents. Africa, Eurasia and the Americas. All three hosted a bunch of separate societies and civilizations, but since they are in different locations they all did different things. The Americas for example were surrounded by mountains, but it had coastal environments, and rain forests. They successfully grew crops and developed new technologies and survived without any large mammals. In the Americas, the Maya civilization was far more advanced than expected. The Maya had established many urban centers which were filled by a numerous amount of people and had developed monumental architecture. But thats not the best part. The best part is that the Maya's were able to create their own numerical system that was capable of figuring out complex calculations. They also created an elaborate writing system as well as understand engineering. The Maya also created a water management system that helped agriculture flourish in their civiliza...

In chapter 5 it talks bout class and caste systems. One that particularly caught my eye was the caste system in India. In Indian culture, class is something each person is born into. Depending on the religion a person resides in helps to guide their class or teaches a person how to reach a certain class. The caste system in particular that I will be discussing today is the Caste system as Varna. This caste system is based on the simple discrimination of skin. Varnas are the four different ranked classes that determine your job and how superior a person is. Varna was supposedly created from the god Purusha. Each of the 4 varnas is said to be a body part of Purusha. The top of the caste system is called Brahmin. A Brahmin is normally white in color and they symbol spirituality. Their jobs normally include priests and teachers and they are considered to be Purusha's head. The next is Kshatriya. They are normally warriors and rulers and are 'red" in appearance. Kshatriya's...