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.