First Reading (Prologue and Chapter 1)

One of the most interesting things to me that we had also talked about in class is how the first part of human history the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras make up 95% of all human history, However it isn't talked about or written about like the stuff that is more recent. The further we get into history the more information there is and of course that is because writing became more and more prominent. Another interesting thing is seeing how the first civilizations moved from Africa to at one point finally inhabiting every part of the world. Also seeing how they moved from hunting and gathering to farming and then eventually making civilizations.

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Chapter 12

A. Paleolithic Persistence: Australia and North America 1. Gatherers and hunters have a history, too 2. Manipulation of the environment and trade 3. “Complex” or “affluent” gatherers and hunters B. Agricultural Village Societies: The Igbo and the Iroquois 1. Egalitarian kinship societies without state systems 2. “The Igbo have no king” but they did trade 3. Great Law of Peace of th e Five Nations C. Pastoral Peoples: Central Asia and West Africa 1. Timur/Tamerlame (d. 1405) 2. Samarkand 3. Fulbe II. Civilizations of the Fifteenth Century: Comparing China and Europe A. Ming Dynasty China 1. Emperor Yongle (r. 1402–1422) 2.Confucianism and anti-Mongol policies 3. Economic boom 4. Zheng He’s voyages (1405–1433) B. European Compari...

Chapter 11

largest land-based state in history great engineers and extremely good learners who changed the world more than any other super power they could run over the brutally cold lands of Siberia and the brutally hot lands of Arabia A lot of tech ( dissipation of gun powder, paper, and printing press) happened as a direct result of their conquests Helped shape the world we live in today they were extremely innovative and played on key weaknesses of their opponents built a spectacular international postal system through a big chunk of Eurasia created standardized bank notes and paper currencies long before Europe Free trade are that connected most of the world built religious tolerance that spanned all religions they knew sciences, astronomy, engineering, and math exploded in mongol era constant thirst for knowledge & quick learners spread whatever they learned from various cultures .5 men related to GK in the world very effective military infrastructure f...

Reading #7(Chapter 6)

In this chapter we saw the similarities and differences between Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas. One of craziest things to me is the way the population was distributed, 85% of the population was in Eurasia. I think the number one thing this can be attributed to is agriculture. In the americas there weren't as lucky as they were in Eurasia. They did not have animals they could domesticate, they also had not developed any written language. Because of this the Americas and Africa had civilizations that were a lot smaller. Another major difference is that the Americas were isolated so they didn't really have anyone to communicate with like the people of Eurasia and Africa. Although the people of the Americas did not have access to iron tools or animals for domestication they still eventually achieved great things. We see with the Mayans were able to have a political system, engineering, mathematics, and even a writing system. The people of Teotihuacan formed Americas largest urba...

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