Miles Blog, World History

Persians rose to power fast but they also fell quickly, they were extremely brilliant and had new ways of running tings.  people were not prepared to defend agains this.  500 BC was the start of the classical period 100 years after start of classical period the greek empire formed and began to rise in power.  the Persians handed their empire to Rome on a "silver platter" when they fell, allowed for the rise of the Roman Empire people looked to religion to guide them and to follow and base their loves off of.  Greeks were humanists, they had gods that were in human form and multiple of them  3 main points of Roman Empire.  Empire builders/ Maintneces  Copied and compared the greek empire and used it as an example  they housed Christians.  This is where christianity first became big and this is where it spread form. Rome went from republic to empire  the islamic empire went from 600 ad to 1300 ad  the early ...

Silk Road: Started in china  went from china to Africa Europe and Vietnam  the goods that are traded were silk, gold, iron, Bamboo shoots  carriers brought the items on the road so that Europe Africa China and Vietnam could trade between each other The items were more expensive the further they traveled.  Sand Road:  Was used to transport gold, salt, cotton, textiles, and food  in Africa along the Niger River  they used camels and donkeys to carry the goods along the road  As the trade rout began to grow it made the Saharan desert a global trade rout and transformed it from just a way of interaction between civilizations within Africa  Sea Road:  This trade rout was based in the Indian Ocean and spanned from Asia, India, and Africa.  Transporting good by boat it made good cheaper to transport unlike the Silk Road where goods would be marked up in price the further they went.  Harbor t...

- in modern life people want to escape civilization, an example is mark twains Huckleberry Finn -first civilizations 3500 B.C.E  to 3000 B.C.E -Uruk ancient city that was the largest in Mesopotamia - jobs and work was split up into different tiers, junior senior for example - even in the first civilization there was inequality, not race but wealth status and power - the civilizations and cities were held together by kings who appointed ranked officials - writing was a huge innovation and traqfomers the way that information was kept and passed on - Mesopotamia and Egypt were close and they interacted often with each other trading.

Paleolithic 200,000 yrs ago Hunter Gatherers Neolithic 12,000 yrs ago Agricultural farming and animal domestication Ancient 3,500 B.C. Classical 500 B.C Modern 1,400 A.D. Hadza, were the last people to continue a way of life that was universal among humankind until 12,000yrs ago Neolithic revolution was groundbreaking for tech first 150,000 years were spent in Africa 100,000 to 60,000 years ago humans left Africa

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