week 15

dec 3
Chapter 12

The fifteenth century had improvements, but also kept some old ways of living. For example, hunting and gathering still stayed among the people even though it was founded in the paleolithic era. They continued to use agriculture. Farming for food and such was a necessity. People of the fifteenth century also created some of their own ways. Within societies, they created small states, civilizations and empires. This led to social inequality which was a downside. They also created a different kind of society, like the pastoral people. These people were far different then agricultural based communities in previous centuries.

week 14

nov 29
Chapter 11

Pastoral societies were a small civilization opposite of agricultural societies. They settled in smaller populations; therefore leading to less agriculture. The Pastoral people did not need as much food because they did not have that many mouths to feed. Within the pastoral society, there are groups organized by blood line or ancestry. Some of these groups come together, but only if there was any relation. The Pastoral people also believed in equality. Ironically, there were still social classes. It split between the poor and wealthy. This was distinguished by how many animals each person owned, the more animals one owned, the more wealthy one was considered and the higher up the social scale one sat on. One positive thing about the pastoral people was that women were not considered less than men. They were open to doing whatever they wanted. They were not only in charge of taking care of children, but they took part in productive work. The women were politically involved as well.

week 11

week 11
November 6

Chapter 8 : China and the World
China during the Classical era grew drastically. Economically, they improved their engineering and technology. They created canals which allowed for more irrigated land and transportation of goods. China also used metal for money, tools, and such during the revolution. Their Sea Road, out of all roads, dominated the most. This drew in many people which increased China's population. Growing populations forced the people of China to grow more food for survival. They used a special rice from Vietnam to feed the people of China. It was fast ripening and drought resistant. The Golden Age brought many people from around the world to China.

week 10 cont.

Week 10 cont.
Nov 1, 2018

Chapter 10
Christianity spread throughout Asian countries like South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, the Philippines and Vietnam. Even where other religions where there were more Catholics and Muslims, noticed the spread of Christianity. It continued to spread throughout Asia and Europe as well. Later, it started to die out in Africa and Asia and became a primary religion only in Europe. Christendom was also known as a civilization. It was known as Christian Byzantium, but soon disappeared.

week 10
Oct 30, 2018

Chapter 9
Islam was known world wide. It spread throughout Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. It was well-known by mainly Arabs. Islam first came about by a messenger named Muhammed Ibn Abdullah. He was born in Mecca, which is located in the middle east. He married into wealth to a woman named Khadija. Muhammed was the messenger of all Arabs. He brought messages to the world from Allah, the God of all Muslims, to all. Muhammed brought the words of Allah to a holy book called the Quran. All people of Islam prase and recite the Quran as part of their religion. They also pray 7 times a day and follow the 5 pillars throughout life.

week 9

week nine
October 29

Chapter 7
As agriculture and civilizations grew, exchange of cultures within societies all around the world spread. Roads had a great impact on the on concept of diversity. Silk roads in Eurasia, Sea roads in the Eastern Hemisphere, and Sand roads in West Africa all played some sort of role. They created a route for transportation for trade. People traded goods and necessities for their own well being. With trade, cultures were exchanged as well. People picked up different traditions or items that represented culture and brought it back to their homelands. This arose the concept of diversity. There were many benefits to the roads, but it also affected people negatively. People would catch diseases along their journey and give it to whoever they met up with. Roads were beneficial as well as infectious.

week 7

week 7
oct 11, 2018

ch 6
Aside from the civilizations of Eurasia spoken about before, the Greeks, Romans, Persians, and the Chinese , there were many other civilizations in Africa. In Africa, the civilizations were the Meroe, Axum, and the Niger River valley. Unlike the civilizations in Africa, they did not use cities or states which made them seem less of a civilization. Civilizations all started with the development of humans and where they migrated. They all started in Africa and migrated out to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas. Civilizations came together through the act of hunting and gathering within societies. Agriculture also brought people together. Also, believe it or not, social inequality brought humans together. Those who were on the same social status came together and formed civilizations, and at the same time, those who were of different social statuses came together and formed a civilization. The sense of unity came along.

WEEK 6 cont.

Week 6 cont
oct 4, 2018

Ch 5
Between 500 B.C.E and 500 C.E., inequality became more of a tragedy in Eurasia and Northern Africa. Between sexes, women were seen as less of person. Men were more superior in every way possible. Women did not have the same rights as men, in fact they had less rights just for being female. There was also inequality between people as a whole. Many countries used the caste system. In order of highest to lowest of people were the out-castes, peasants, merchants, warriors, then priests. One could not jump from one caste to another. You were simply born into a caste, unable to get out or move higher up in the social pyramid. Priests were at the highest level so this shows that religion was heavily followed during this time. Warriors were also high in the caste system because they fought for their country and everyone in it. Merchants were like the middle class. They sold and traded things to survive and make a fair amount of money. Then were the peasants and out castes who just did't fit in with the rest of the people. These low class people were most likely poor and didn't have luxuries within their life times. These inequalities within the civilizations helped form the way we see each other today.

WEEK 6

WEEK 6 
Oct 2, 2018

Ch. 4 & Close Reading:
There were a wide variety of cultures and religions across Eurasia around 500 B.C.E. These cultures, traditions, and religions allowed for people to connect with the Earth, growing foods, animals, ancestors, Gods, and others. The main religions people followed in China was Confucianism and Daoism. In India, Hinduism was the common religion. Later came Christianity and Islam in the middle east and Israel, which came from the idea of Judaism form the Jewish. A tradition in Greece also came along, following the well known thinkers known as Socrates and Aristotle. The Chinese and Greeks traditions allowed them to connect more with the Earth and the Indians, Persians, and Jewish people's religion allowed for them to connect with God. The religions and other things they looked up to were much more higher in power. It provided social stability and order in the world.
The article "Serving is different from Helping and Fixing," main idea is that serving is a forced task while helping and fixing is something you go out of your way for to make others who are unequal to you, more equal.

WEEK 5 cont.

WEEK 5
September 27

Chapter 3 Docs:
Herodotus notes that Persians do not believe in Gods, but do believe in a universal chief God in which they make sacrifices for. The Persians mainly only celebrate birthdays, where the amount of food that's served is doubled. Kisses are exchanged when they run into each other, but only if they are apart of the same status. They copied clothing traditions from others. The relationships between the fathers and sons are strange. As a baby and young child, Persians stay only with their mother until the age of 5, then they are allowed to be with their father where they learn manly skills. With the Egyptians, the men and women roles are flipped. Only men are able to be priests. Egyptians also lived amongst animals. When writing, they write from right to left, rather than left to right. When talking about the Persians, Herodotus has more of a negative tone, and when talking about the Egyptians, he seemed to have a more positive tone. Portions of the text where Herodotus talks about culture and social status' should allow for historians to describe life in Persia and Egypt.

Week 5

WEEK 5
September 25

Intro to pt 2 & Ch 3:
Civilizations of this time contained empires used to rule these civilizations. The Chinese and Persians used the empire system to rule their civilizations, where as city-states like Mesopotamia, Greece and Meso-america did not. Civilizations in Persia, China, and India, who had empires, didn't make it very far and it soon collapsed, but for a time, the system seemed to work. The empires stayed up by using armies who used violence to protect them and financially, collected taxes from their citizens. They were also so large, it was difficult to overthrow. The strange thing is is that the rulers of the empires followed different cultures and traditions as the people who lived within the empire, yet they still seemed to stay and follow as the empire says. There was a positive affect to this though. The diverse cultures and traditions allowed for many people to learn more about other cultures and traditions. Aside from violence, empires also brought a sense of together ness and protection for their people.

WEEK 4 cont.

WEEK 4
Sept 20

Chapter 2 (Documents):

This pictures shows a female of the Indus Valley civilization. She was known as a dancer or an entertainer. Her arms and legs are lengthy and her body appears to be very slim. The female statue is seen wearing very little clothes. Her breasts are very much exposed. Her long arms are covered in jewelry, more specifically, bangles. The hair of the woman is tied up. Her head is held up high and her hand is on her hip. Looking at this statue, I infer that women who were dancers in the Indus Valley civilization were proud of who they were. They were confident in their body, given no clothes besides a bottom to cover half of her lady parts. This also shows that they were proud to be dancers / entertainers. To me, this statue gives off a positive spin on what women were expected to do in the past. Everyone sees the jobs women were given, as sexist or inhumane, but as this statue of a dancer shows great confidence, it shows that not everything women did in the past was to satisfy others.

WEEK 4

WEEK 4
September 18, 2018

Chapter 2 (First Civilizations):

Civilizations are a group of people who live together and are able to socially get along and organize themselves to live accordingly. This act came along after the development of agriculture around 3500 B.C.E. Civilizations started off small around the world. Soon, they grew larger and covered more land. The first groups to become civil were the Middle Eastern's of Mesopotamia, Egyptians of Africa, and Notre Chico. They started the first kind of recording in the form of writing which helped with everyday things, like trade. The small civilizations soon turned into cities. Within thee cities, a distinct separation clearly occurred. Because of the differences between wealth and power, social hierarchies formed. If one was wealthy, with money and large amounts of land, and powerful, they would be considered Upper Class, much like today's time. Social Hierarchies also occurred between gender, male and female. Males were found to be of higher importance than females, so they were considered a higher class. An act called Patriarchy reduced the power of men and raised the power of women, which made them more equal. Later, more languages and practices have spread because of the forced communication during trade. Soon, language and social practices were spread around the globe, creating more and more civilizations.

WEEK 2

WEEK 2
September 4

During the Neolithic era, agriculture began to bloom. This time period started off with simple rituals. Humans hunted and gathered plants and animals around them to survive. Soon, agriculture, as well as human life, began to revolutionize. Simple hunting and gathering received a humanly touch and transformed into a more complex routine. Humans began to farm bigger and better plants and crops. They started customizing their personal land, turning them into their own gated communities using the land they owned. They then only farmed specific plants and animals, those that would give off more resources for survival. This method is called domestication. It is where we get the term "domesticated plants" or "domesticated animals" from. The domesticated plants and animals could no longer survive without human support, due to the way their treated and raised under the arms of humans. Landowners, more specifically farmers, began to use their land to its fullest potential. Instead of planting a low amount of crops, farmers packed their land with as much food as they could grow. This created more resources and attracting more people, but it required a lot more work and effort. Agriculture continues to grow today.

WEEK ONE

August 30:
Homo sapiens started off in Africa, where the revolution and change of humans first began. The Homo sapiens followed the footsteps of a species who lived before them, the hominid, but evidence of human activity has been found in other parts of Africa, where the hominid have not been before. They migrated from Africa to other parts of the world. Here, the Homo sapiens adapted to new environmental changes, included the cold conditions of the Ice Age. Due to this, humans then migrated to warmer land in Eurasia, where they then again, learned to adjust to the newer environment. Many paintings in the caves of Eurasia were left behind. Boats were used by humans to migrate into Australia. The people of Australia, known as the Aboriginals, became more modern and stayed that way even when other migrants came over. This, created the time period, Dreamtime. To get into the Americas, our ancestors of the Dreamtime were forced to go through difficult lands, some by land, and some to believe, by sea. In the Americas, culture changed. It was known as the Clovis culture. The hunting and gathering traditions of the Clovis people spread across North America. The culture of this people then began to die down due to the fall of existence of many of the large mammals they hunted. Some continued to hunt, while others began the tradition of farming. The homo sapiens of the Americas then sailed through the Pacific, carrying plants and animals in their canoes. They hoped to find and settle into new land. The Paleolithic society almost became extinct due to an eruption of a volcano on the island of Sumatra. They later adapted to fatal conditions and were back up and running. Population grew again, but because the people were constantly migrating to other lands, the amount of hunting and gathering was very low. Later, roles of men and women began to form and hunting and gathering became more popular. Their methods, although, ruined the environment and made it harder for humans to live and caused global warming.

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