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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...

Some civilization had gib temples to dedication to their gods. And although every came from the great migration, even group/civilization had their now way of striving. There were trade routes people used and those with wealth and military power had extension long-distance trading connections. As time went one, specialization followed. For example, cotton weavers, powers, leather workers, and griots. Which soon, were passed down to future generations. Fishing, rice cultivation, and other agricultural pursuits also followed. Specific locations were rich in materials and natural resources, while others were. For example, the Niger floodplain, supported rich agriculture and contained clay, but did not have stone, iron or salt. Other places, like in MesoAerican and Andes gave rise great ecological and biological diversity. For example, Central Mexico to northern Central America had intensive agricultural technology devoted to raising maize, beans chili peppers and squash. Civilizations col...

  In China, most men were the most running the government. They emphasized the officials had to be well educated and the best so they had imperial academies where men went to learn and the best were elected. Although all men were welcomed, it favored the wealthy and those who made it into bureaucracy entered a realm of high privilege and prestige. Those that owned a great amount of land were the wealthy so the government had to divide these up. The wealthy usually lived in big houses, wore the finest clothes, had private orchestras and participated in high stake gambling.            But the majority of China's population were peasants who faced numerous hardships. Although they were at the bottom, the Scholar-gentry thought they were important and the backbone of the country. The Merchants were the ones who were disliked because they were thought of as greedy, unproductive, stealing others work, and materialistic. They were also seen as a threat and t...