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 civilization. The Maya people were ambitious and creative. Another civilization in the Americas was Teotihuacan. It had one of the largest complex urban centers in the world. It was an enormous city filled with plazas, streets, temples, marketplaces, apartment complexes and much more. The city itself is very mysterious, so mysterious that we don't know its actual name. This civilization was one of the largest ever seen. Although it did not Develop a mathematical system or a system of writing they did develop one of the largest architectural civilizations of their time. They decorated each and every building with Mira paintings, sculptures, and carvings. The Americas is only one example of the many diverse civilizations in the world. Everybody is different in their own way and these civilization show it.
Chapter 8 was about how China could possibly be the next superpower. Many things lead me to believe this. To start off Chyna dominated the sea roads which was the exchange system within the Indian ocean. Because of this exchange China had one of the largest cosmopolitan urban centers. Since many people visited the centers it caused China’s economy to shoot up because they were making so much money from it. Another thing that would help what is the revival of Confucianism. Confucianism would help with the order and social class of China making it more organized and efficient to handle large problems. China also had an examination system which was to help give out jobs to people meaning to get a high powered job you must be educated and take the exam. China was also very advanced, they found a way to feed their oversize population using rice. This rice came from Vietnam and grew two times faster than normal. It was also drought -resistant so there was never a reason people would die of s...
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