1. From the simplest barter system to long journeys along trade routes, the exchange of goods and ideas shaped this period and led to further change throughout the world. Important trade routes like the Silk Road, Indian Ocean, and Mediterranean Sea shaped development.
2. Once people began to settle and gradually organize into early civilizations, the discovery of agriculture began to change their lives at a more rapid pace.
3. As humans organized themselves in families, gender roles emerged. With the development of agriculture, the division of labor further deepened these divisions. These gender roles were reinforced by religious systems and governmental systems.
4. During this period, major world religions developed and spread, shaping the civilizations they encountered. Religions and belief systems such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism (Asia), and Christianity and Judaism (Europe, Asia) influenced large numbers of people throughout the period.
5. Civilizations emerged which had organized governments, complex religions, social structures, job specialization, public works, systems of writing, and arts and architecture. These civilizations grew into larger and more complicated government organizations such as empires, i.e. Rome, Han, and Gupta.
5 comments:
how is the Shang dynasty different from civilizations like Sumer and Egypt? Monoopoly on iron and more military based?
and remember, independent development... egypt can't claim that.
How does the fall of the Han and Gupta empires compare to the fall of Rome?
the fall of the Roman Empire was much more dramatic than the Gupta empire. when the gupta empire came into power they left the local government and administration in power. Prill said that when the Gupta Empire fell they the citizens didn't really notice... they just went back to regional rule. I think the Han and Roman empires are more similar they both deteriorated and were split up. Han into 3 regional kingdoms, Rome into 2 districts., and in both cases nomadic peoples came in.
the difference between han china and the roman empire was that rome had it worse since the huns attacking caused nomads close to the empire to rush in also. the roman empire also began hiring nomads to fight for them, which backfired. when rome split into two the west suffered more than the east due to more invasions, but the capital was in the east, so the west got no help.
in han china the problem was more that aristocrats and generals gained independant power, exempting themselves from taxes which decreased tax revenue and caused peasant revolts.
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