- 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 for ideas
- accepting of homosexuality
- women had a lot of rights
In this reading I really got to see how different all of the civilizations were. Starting out with the Persian empire we saw a gigantic empire that had millions in it population. We saw how to conquered a lot of land. What was really surprising however was how they were really nice towards the people they took over, they would still let them practice their religions. One thing about them was they had one leader and that leader got the upmost respect and power. He was feared so he could do anything. Next we saw the Greek empire which was very different from the Persian empire. First it was different in size, the Greek empire was only 5 or 6 million. Another major thing was the government, instead of having on ruler the Greek empire operated in smaller but more city states. What was crazy was when these two clashed and the Greek empires being the underdog was able to defeat the Persians. Now we couldn't talk about civilizations without talking about the Roman Empire. Which really wen...
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