Blog Post #8

Christianity spread by the wholly unforeseen birth of yet another monotheistic faith in the middle East, its rapid spread across much of the AfroEurasian world, the simultaneous creation of a large and powerful Arab Empire, the emergence of a cosmopolitan and transcontinental Islamic civilizations.

Blog Post #7

Silk Roads:
Silk road trading networks prospered most when large and powerful states provided security for merchants and travelers. Silk road trade flourished again during the seventh and eighth centuries

Sea Roads:
Grew out of the vast environmental and cultural diversities of the region. Transportation costs were lower on the Sea Roads than on the Silk Roads because ships could accommodate larger and heavier cargoes than camels. This meant that the Sea Roads could eventually carry more bulk goods and products destined for a mass market.

Sand Roads: across the vast reaches of he Sahara
Commercial networks had a transforming impact, stimulating and enriching West Africa civilization and connecting it to larger patterns of world history during the third wave era.

Blog post #6

  Africa hosted numerous separate societies, cultures, and civilizations with vast differences among them as well as some interaction between them.

small regions of Mediterranean climate in the northern and southern extremes, large deserts, even larger regions of savanna grasslands, tropical rain forest in the continent's center, highlands and mountains in eastern Africa all of these features, combined with the continent's enormous size, ensured endless variation  among Africa's many peoples.

The Niger river was a main resource and source overall for water.

Africa south of the equator, agricultural Bantu-speaking peoples also created a wide variety of quite distinct societies and cultures.

Blog Post 10

Columbus was a terrible person, he brought over nothing great to the Americas. He was a thief, rapist and a pirate. His voyage was the most significant event of the 15th century. But it wasn't the only significant event that took place during that century. Through out the reading it talked about how that human communities developed over a time after Columbus's arrival and how there were already settled civilizations there at in the americas when he arrived. Like the Aztec Empire, and the Inca Empire.

Blog Post #5

I really do not think that the United States is the next Roman Empire, reflecting on a question in the text. Yes we have very similarities that resemble our society today, but we are way more advanced and our structure of life isn't the same as their was. The Roman Empire was their own time and era of a society.

Blog Post #4

How would you define the Mesopotamian ideal of kingship? What is the basis of the monarch's legitimacy?

The ideal of kingship during the Mesopotamian Era was very big headed and competitive. The men's egos fueled their rage for dominance. Which usually lead to a battle until one came out on top and most powerful. Along with the fights the competition continued when they would compare to see who was able to complete more things in their society. And who was able to be an example of greatness to the people. Also the Kings had to be god like figures. Built like a god and must be as good looking as a god. You had to represent a god in the people's eyes of your own society.

Blog Post #3

Probably had to be the longest and most boring thing that I have read. I fell asleep multiple times reading this. I had to spread out the reading. Even though the reading was exhausting, cannot lie that I didn't learn something new. I didn't know that cities in Egypt were less important than in Mesopotamia. I have always been really interested in Egypt and their society and ways of living and this reading helped give me a more detailed look into it.