Again like I said in my last post it is crazy how much the early people advanced. They went from being gatherers and hunters and not having any food stability to growing their own food and domesticating animals to have a more stable food source. They also went from being nomadic to staying in a single place. The more time they stayed in a single place the better technologies they developed. With civilizations we see a rise in democracies in some of the first 7. They were getting so big they had to rely on someone to lead them and govern them. Not only that but also to think of ideas for them especially for stuff like irrigation. One of the most important things though is the development of written language. With this they could advance their ideas even further and advance their technologies.
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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