Chapter 7 Classical Era Variations

The Bantu people helped develop the clsassical era. Bantu was a langauage that people had to learn. They were forest specialist and knew how to produce homey, elephant products, and animal skin. They migrated across Africa. They were apart of the hunter gather and convinced other people.

Chapter 6 Eurasian Social Hierarchies

Chapter six focuses on social hierarchies. People were judged on how much money they had and what clothes they wore. The chapter mainly covers China, Rome, and India. China had the best hiearchary to me. Money and race also had a huge impact on social class. Civilizations became more stable and made improvement. The picture on page 159 caught my attention. It shows Chinese peasants farming plowing and planting crops. The second part of the chapter talks about slavery in the classical era. In China slavery was a minoe element but was a big factor in Rome.

Chapter 5 Cultural traditions

Chapter 5 mainly focuses on Hinduism. Buddhism is connect on Hinduism. Hinduism is about peace, love, and sacrifices. People like it becuause it was a accesilbe religion. Even today the same traditions are followed from 500 BCE. Legalism was later developed to have organization and set rules. Without any laws people would be wild and have nothing to follow. The mian religious I thought were interesting were Hinduism and Buddhism. Hinduism seemed the most equal and balanced. Buddhism changed the way people thought about culture.  

Chapter 4 Eurasian Empires

This chapter is mainly about empires. The first empires were formed in in the Middle East. For example, the Babylonian, Akkadian, and Assyrian. The Greek and Persian empires were the popular ones. Coinage seems like a good idea to me. The Persian empire had coinage so maintain the city. Coinage was taxing the people. The Greeks had anexcellent governemt. Unlike most places people were treated equall. Equality is a huge deal and thats positive the people had there rights. I was shocked the governemnt was so stable. Greek had many different cities and was full of mountains and valleys. This chapter wasn't interesting to me at all!