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When China was in turmoil and disorder, Chinese thinkers began to think of solutions to fix this. A practical philosophy called Legalism came up, where it stated that laws and rules had to be played and strictly enforced. Confuscious thought about this a different way. When a political position that he was seeking never came and eventually died, his students wrote his teaching in a book called Analects. He urged for no laws or punishments but the moral example of superiors was the key to a rested social harmony.  Inferiors would follow the example of the superiors. It was not long that Confusicms made its way to family lives. Another system was Daoism, which was associated with a sixth-century archivist called Laozi. Laozi ideas ran counter of that of Confucious. Confucious urged the importance of education, moral improvement, and a good government, while Doalist ridiculed such efforts. Doalist encouraged behavior that was spontaneous ...

Herodotus(485-425 B.C.E) was a Greek who recorded what he saw and witness as he traveled all throughout. A group that he talks about in this source is the Persians. He states that although the Persians did not use temples or alters, they offered sacrifices Zeusues, the god of the universe along with other things like water and fire. The sacrificer would bring the victim(animals) to a pure spot and chop it up. A priest would then chant a hymn over it and after it was all done, they sacrificer would take the meat and do whatever he pleases with it. Another event they highly celebrated was the Birthday. Persian would eat a lot of food and drink a lot of wine. Even the poor, would make big meals. Herodotus also describes how they would greet one another. If both parties were or equal status, they would kiss on the lips, if one was a bit lower, on the cheek and if one was way inferior, he would lie down in front of the other. The farther they lived the less they would r...

The Persian and Greek experienced numerous long interactions and clashes, which is considered one of the most consequential cultural encounters of the ancient world. The Persian Empire conquered a lot of territory from Egypt to India, which was the largest in the world. The Persian monarchs were also very strict and fierce. On monarch was quoted saying "What was said to them by me, night and day, it was done." To uphold this, they had satraps in each of the empires providence. The Greek Empire, on the other hand, was smaller and were only in one concentrated area, but when Alexander died, his empire divided into three kingdoms. One notable Greek city was Rome, which was small and impoverished, but soon it started to expand to nearby territories and became the epicenter. Unlike the Roman Empire, the Chinese Empire was able to take shape because various rulers vied to reunify China. One of these rulers was Qin Shihuangani, whose empire was very advance...

Communities were turning into civilizations. Some rose, fell, revived and changed. There were seven first civilizations. The first civilization emerged around 3500 BCE in southern Mesopotamia. There were different types, for example, the Norte Chico was way different with their small cities and their less evidence of economic specialization. Civilizations in other places were very different from one another. For example, Egypt and China experienced an impressive continuity of identity as a distinct civilization from its early years. But although they are all different, all civilizations had their roots in the Agricultural Revolution. With civilization came cities and with cities, came a hierarchy and inequality that was regarded as normal. For example, men were superior to women. To keep everything in balance and place, the idea of a government based society was born and laws beginning to be written. But as the first civilizations broke down, new civilizations took their place and...

12,000 years ago, a breakthrough in agriculture happened. This was the “Neolithic Stone age.” This transformed human lives all throughout the world. Domestication was something that was something to be seen during this age. This age increased the population. “More food, more people.” The weather also helped more plants flourish, some which were domesticated and a main food source. A “Broad spectrum diet” also made its way into people's lives. The increase in population allowed humans of the time to experiment with the food supply. A number of animals and plants were domesticated, figs being the first to be domesticated, dating back to 9400 B.C.E. This age also brought the creation of innovative tools like axes and awls. During this age, the Americas lacked domesticated animals and solely depended on hunting and fishing for their protein. Although they lacked in this, they were the first ones to domesticate corn and maize in Southern Mexico. Globalization of agriculture increa...