The document that I found most interesting was the one of the Persians. First of all looking at their religious beliefs, the did believe in gods but they still believed that no one had power like humans. So no matter how powerful a god was he was never going to have as much power as a human could. They also didn't believe in building altars or shrines, and did do sacrifices but not to the same extent as other people. Persians also really only celebrated one thing and that was their birthday. The wealthy would serve all types of animals, the poor would usually only serve cattle but they would still serve plenty of food. One thing that Persians did was enjoy luxuries and they were quick to adapt. If they saw a technology from another region they would quickly adapt and buy whatever the new thing was. The main thing that they focused on was manliness and mostly on the battle field. When a man had a son he wouldn't meet him until he was 5 so he would not get emotionally attached if he passed away.
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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