Blog 7

        But eventually in Rome their empire got too big and eventually became a dictatorship. In order to fix this problem they came up with alternatives to fix the classical era. The seminal thinkers began thinking how they can create a utopia without: power, status, wealth, and slavery. This started a system where people were born into certain classes such as priests', ruling families, nobles, and merchants and craftsmen. But this made it difficult for people to move up in these classes. They then found that these inequalities, the ones mentioned before, were more shake able than expected. This vision of a utopia was almost impossible to reach even for the seminal thinkers.

Blog 6

       Culture and religion was very different than it is now. During this time, even thinking about another religion than the one practiced could put your life at danger. This is why these great seminal thinkers we still know today such as Socrates, Buddha, Jesus, and Confucius because they risked their life to spread bureaucracy, enlightenment, salvation and other religious beliefs. Another belief was Socrates idea of humanism that can still be seen in present day.

Blog 5

    In about 500 AD, the beginning of the classical era, began the competition of between civilizations, development of seminal thinkers, and most importantly the development of complex Empires. The difference now was that these empires started to become cosmopolitan, meaning that the people entering were allowed to keep their differences, such as cultural and religious views. The pros of these empires would include facilitating trade throughout, sharing of technology and advancements, and even protection from other empires. Due to the immense amount of pros and lack of cons convinced many people and smaller civilizations to enter empires ultimately forming these giant empires, such as the great Persian empire.

Blog 4

      The question I chose to focus on was, how the afterlife of a Pharaoh was represented in the text?
 After reading I took notice that Egyptians viewed death differently than most other civilizations. Instead of ignoring death or being callous about death the Egyptians celebrated death and would often have ceremonies. Through hieroglyphs we have determined that after these Pharaohs died they were believed to live eternally with the other gods and fallen Pharaohs. Even during their life these Pharaohs were seen to be above man and could only be bequeathed this high power of being a Pharaoh. They were pampered all their life and rarely would lift a finger. Although this sounds like the perfect life I don't think I could go my whole life as a Pharaoh.

Blog 3

            The next step Humanity took was into the Ancient era, a time of competition, wealth, status, and power. Although this was seen in late times of the Neolithic era, on thing was different, now it was competition between Homo-Sapiens and Homo-Sapiens. The difference now is we can confirm these events happened due to one simple technology. Writing, separated the civilized from the uncivilized, otherwise known as barbarians. The Mesopotamias, who lived about 3,500 years ago, took their civilized ways very seriously. They even were the on of the first to write about an epic of man who transformed from an animal, who lived and ate with nature, to a Man, who wore cloths and drank beer. Regardless if you believe wearing cloths and drinking beer makes you a civilized human, we can all agree that writing transformed Homo-Sapiens into the superior being. 

Blog 2

     In this Neolithic era one advancement stood out from the rest. Agriculture began to spread rather rapidly across all Homo-Sapiens, ultimately halting the need to be nomadic people. This revolutionary advancement helped the Homo-Sapiens out compete the other living species of humans. This made me ask the question of how. Did other species wonder across Homo-Sapiens land of agriculture and they then became protective of their land either scaring away the enemy or killing them for trespassing? Why couldn't these other species learn our ways of agriculture? Other than asking how are why, should we focus on how property could have easily been the worst inventions Homo-Sapiens have ever created? After reading Nissa's Story and understanding how they acknowledge how woman, child, and men all had equally important roles for the whole community could be a better way to live than that's mine and this is yours kind of view we live in today. After reading Nissa's story I believe their lifestyle is more satisfactory for the whole community than the way Homo-Sapiens live here. Although, we can not fully confirm this is how Humans lived in the Neolithic era because this took place about 12,000 years ago and their is no written records from this time, only controversial paintings.

Blog 1

        Chapter one focuses on the paleolithic era, or otherwise known as the old stone age. This nickname was given to this time period that took place around 200,000 years ago, because these early Homo-Sapiens invented the fist type of basic tools. This really makes me step back and look at all the amazing technologies that i take for granted everyday. Some being as simple as communication or even writing. These basic tools were barley invented or not even a thought such as writing down historical events. During this era early migration out of Africa took place and paved the way for the next era.