World History

I learned some interesting things about the Persians after reading this article..The Persians had no images of gods or temples, and they thought of those things as being foolish. They practiced sacrificing things to Zeus, who they viewed as the chief God of the universe. They described the offering or sacrificing that the Persian people did. The sacrificers were not allowed to pray for blessings on himself alone, but for the King and the people. Then, they talked about how they cut the meat and how the sacifice was done. It was weird to me. The day they celebrated the most was their birthday. It said that they have more food than usual, which sounds just about right. The richer Persians, of course, had more variety like camel, ox, a horse, etc... The poor cooked smaller cattle. The Persians also loved wine... who doesn't? The Persians would kiss each other on the lips if they were I guess cool with each other, but if they just had an ok relationship they would kiss on the cheek. Th...

What exactly is an empire? In the book it stated that they are statles, with political systems that exercise coercive power. Also, it is a variety of people and cultures within a single political systems. The empires stood out because they were so big, armies and tax collectors were hard to avoid, economic and artistic development, and cultural mixing. These empires defined masculinity. In this chapter, I read about certain city states. The first ones I read about were the Persians and Greeks. The Persians were under the Achaemedid Dynasty, around 553-330 B.C.E. They constructed an imperial system. They were under Cyrus and Darius. The Persian governors were called Satraps. It had 23 provinces. They created the Royal Road. The Persians had an irrigation system, which leaded to a rich agricultutal economy. Their empire had imperial centers reflected wealth and power of their empire. The Greeks, in contrast, their participiation in political life occured within it's city states. ...

9/16 First Civilizations As I began reading chapter two, something already caught my attention: "urge to 'escape from civilization' has long been a central feature in modern life". This caught my attention because I could see how it is something that could potentially be something we are experiencing in our daily lives. It stated that civilization is a global phenomenon. Around 3500 B.C.E., was when 7 Major locations began civiliations. The first location, which is known as Mesopotamia, (present day Iraq). Also the Egyptian Civiliation was created around the same time. It said that it took shape as a territorial state. Next, would be known as present-day Peru, which they referred to as Norte Chico. They were smaller than Mesopotamia, and it did not rest on grain farming, unlike the Egyptian and Mesopotamia civilizations. It said that it did not develop poetry or writing, which I think is interesting because I would think they would since they were considered a c...

Chapter One  "First Peoples; First Farmers" After reading chapter one, I learned a lot of things about the first people and farmers. I will talk about the things that stood out to me the most, and that I found interesting. I learned that Africa was the place where "human revolution" began, as well as culture, first known as the homo sapiens. This was about 200,000-250,000 years ago.  This is also the place where humans began their technological innovations like axes, stone blades, even tools made out of bones. They used these tools for hunting and fishing. More advancements in human culture, technology, and migration started happening after. Although there were many years to keep track of, just knowing an estimate of when and where helped me visualize a time line. The map in the book also helped. So, after Africa, humans migrated to the Middle East, and then onto Europe and some east of Asia. However, among those areas, in the book the author stated that the...