World History

The Mongols were nomads. Lead by Genghis Khan, the Mongolian empire claimed a lot of afro Eurasia in a short-lived empire. The Mongols didn't have a huge economic trading system because they were so nomadic and didn't have one place to trade. The only way the empire spread was through force and through military battles. Mongols had a very large and strong military. The Mongols treated women very well and offered them a higher status and a greater public life than their counterparts. They saw women as just as valuable as men and they used everyone's knowledge.  Discipline and loyalty to leaders characterized Mongol military. The Mongols were very tolerant and supportive of merchants, traders and missionaries as they accepted anyone that would make their empire stronger. this movement of people facilitated the exchange of ideas and techniques. The Mongols also spread the plague and brought the disease to its height. The Mong...

Christianity had its birth in southwest Asia and would spread east and westward. This religion played a huge role and was accepting of many other people and gave them a home spiritually. The Introduction of Christianity came into Nubia in the 5th-6th centuries this started a vast spread all across euroasia. The Byzantine church and Christian divergence, when the Roman pope declared he was head of all Christians the Byzantine empire broke away and strongly disagreed.   There was no separation of church and state at the time.

The chapter starts by showing Muslims in the current world and over 20% of the world's population is Islam. This is huge and is a very widespread and united afro-euroasia. islam emerged from margins of Mediterranean and middle eastern civilizations and this began the religion. Started to spread across the Arabian peninsula. Allah is their one god. The Quran "the remembrance of God" was effectively summarized as a set of five requirements or pillars of Islam. by the time of Muhammad death, the united a lot of the peninsula. He became known as Mecca. Men saw women as inferior and subordinate, men had authority over women. All of the property women-owned halves of it went towards their male counterparts. 

This chapter focuses on classical China. China will be the next superpower, China had a major boom after the grand canal was made. Women in China were very different then what it used to be elite women have bound their homes and bound to their husbands by the process of footbinding. The Chinese. The poor Chinese women were freer then these women as they were not bound to their home. During this golden age of China, there was a rebirth of Confucianism and they used this to restore order in China. China continued to grow and flourish their empire they claimed many different countries like Korea and Japan but not Vietnam. vietnam wanted to be apart of the Roman empire. China had a huge economic growth in the tang and song dynasties. China was the major superpower that they hoped to be and they benefited immensely from economic trade with having the silk road and sea road help with trade. China also saw a wide spread of a new religion, that relig...

Intro to Part Three, Its very difficult to define when the end of an era is and when a new one begins, this section will cover the third wave of civilizations. Swahili civilization and a string of thirty or more city-states appeared along the coast of East Africa. The west African civilization began from trade across the Sahara the kingdoms of Ghana, Mali and Songhay helped kick-start this. East and Southeast Asia also became civilizations as a result of trade. Across all of the civilizations starting and flourishing so was Islam it was the most expansive and was widely influential in the third wave. Chapter 7, This chapter emphasizes on trade and the trade networks, the most known and most active was the Silk Roads, this was not a road but instead, it was a trade network that merchants would travel along. On the Silk Roads, Silk was the most sold product on this route. This large land route linked pastoral and agricultural people to others all...

The differences between the Egyptians and the Persians to the greeks is less then I expected. persians don't have any areas of worships or pictures for their gods. The Greeks believed that the gods don't live in the same world as they do. egyptians wrote from right to left where as the Greeks wrote left to write.