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Pastorals societies shared several imprint features that distinguished them from settle agricultural communities and civilizations. Like they lived in small and widely scattered encampments. They also supported far smaller populations and they also had slaves too. Women in these societies also offered women higher status and fewer restrictions and they were in important roles like political advisors.     Turkic people not only become Muslims but they also brought Islam to different locations and they planted Islam in that ancient civilizations. The Mongol Empire was the largest land-based empire exempting a good amount of land, but the empire was divided into four khanates. But in the twelfth century, the Mongols were unstable there were a lot of feuds between them. The Mongols were best known for their military victories, but the Japanese fierce samurai defeated this invasion of the Japanese mainland. Striking fast like thunder, they halted the Mongol forces and during ww2 ...

The Chinese made achieved a lot of thing in Astronomy including observing sunspots, supernovae and constructing elaborate star maps and astronomical devices.  China was always a big player even in in the earlier times, it cast a long shadow. Apart from this, china was always a very urbanized country. For example, over 100,000 cities all through China, homed more than a million people. China also had numerous inventions like gun power, that would be widely used. Women also lived a more restricted life than other places. China also faced numerous enemies, which persuaded the Chinese emperor to negotiate arrangements with other nomadic states. China and Korea worked together and Korea became a part of the expanding world of Chinese culture. Vietnam was regarded by the Chinese as “southern barbarians.” Chinese culture was also favored in Japan and Chinese culture positive affected Japanese with many aspects. China was home of many technological advancements. Religion was also big with ...

Christianity came to provide a measure of cultural commonality for the diverse people of the western Eurasia. Many embraced in the form the teaching of Jesus.  As a religion, Christianity contracted sharply in Asia and Africa even as it expands in Western Europe and Russia. In some regions, other religions could co-exist but they just had to pay a tax. Christianity spread to numerous places for example like Africa. Byzantine Empire conquered lands and expanded. Although Christianity was based on one figure there was disagreement and it split into different paths with their own teachings. The most significant expansion of Orthodox Christianity occurred among the Slavic people of Russian and Ukraine. As civilization evolved in the West, they were clearly less developed in comparison to Byzantium, China, India. After reading this chapter, I learned a lot of things about empires and how there was a convergence in Christianity. I would have thought hey Western civilization would be more...

Mecca came to occupy a distinctive role in Arabia since it was the site of the most prominent religious shrine in Arabia. It was home to people from various tribes and clans. Muhammad Ibn Abdullah was going to be an important figure in Islam and was going to be the messenger of Allah.  The Core message of Islam was summarized as a set of five requirements known as the Pillars of Islam. Islam was a bit different than other religions because unlike Jesus or the Buddha, Muhammad was a political and military leader able to implement his vision of ideal Islamic society. Soon the mixing and blending of these many people emerged the new and distinctive third-wave civilization. There were numerous empires and they all had some sort of conflict with one another. With Islam full blooming, many converted. They all found their cultural identity bond with a belief in Allah and the message of this prophet.  For example, between 750 and 900 about 80 percent of the population made the trans...

Certain societies were able to monopolize certain products, for example, silk and certain spices in others nearby. Trading was very important because it often alters consumption and shaped daily life. For West, Africans imported salt which benefited those in the Sahara Trad alose affected working lives because it encouraged people to specialize in producing certain products. Trade changed the lives of people in many ways.     But Trade also brought many other things as well like religious ideas, technological innovations, plants, animals, but also disease-bearing germs! The silk road, a network of land-based trades routes was one heavily used. Silk was the one chosen to symbolize this network exchange. Silk was a product that was very important and women were main labor force with homes being the primary textile site. Silk became a symbol of high status and government passed laws that restricted oil clothing only for member of the elite     Religion also spread ac...

The Indus Valley People were very organized with cities well planned and surrounded by walls of standardized bricks, something many others did not have till very later. Along with it house and cities systematically placed on a grid, inside each home, there was a latrine and a sewage system. Although they did have a language which they used to write down records, much of it still hasn't been deciphered. The Indus Valley people also used seals on many of their artifacts. Seals with pictures of bulls and other animals were used as labels so other could know who that thing belonged to. For example, a seal of a bull meant that belonged to a high ranking official of a powerful clan since it was rarer compared to other. These seals were also found in other civilization like in Mesopotamia which hints that they could have traded with each other. It is clear that the Indus Valley people were very sophisticated. -There was a numerous difference between first civilizations. Some civilization...