World history blog

Source 3.2's title is A Roman Historian on the Germans.  The Germanic speaking people were never a single nation, but tribes.  They were kind of like the greeks in this regard.  These Germanic people were, however, feared and respected for their military skills.  The question is, what statements of Tacitus might you regard as reliable and which are more suspect, why? The only statement that I believe is reliable is the statement about them being feared for military and that they lived in small tribes. There would be no mistaking hw the peoples decided themselves or if they were a force to be reckoned with.   However, everything else that was recorded, Tacitus got from other people, and we have no idea who they were, so those statements would be more suspect.

Dylan H-P We are done with the first civilizations!!!! There were many advances in technology, agricultural, and communications.  The most outstanding however was the Indus Valley.   They were far more advanced than any other civilization at the time and for many many more years.  There is a book called Are We Rome?  and not knowing anything about what is in the book, I think we have may characteristics of Rome.  "empires are simply states" (106) was stated and yeah, they are.  So we are like Rome!  The Persian empire was the most impressive and they were during the 500 B.C.E time period.  Satraps were were Persian governors placed in each of the 23 provinces.  They made a standardized coin system and dug a huge canal connecting the Nile to the Read Sea.  The Greeks had a very distinctive lifestyle. When the Greeks and Persians fought, it would be very unfair. It was small, divided greek cities, versus the large Persian empire....

The Indus Valley was wayyyyyy ahead of it's time.  They made their city on a grid pattern, much like modern day civilizations do.  They made mud bricks and used them to build more sophisticated and sturdy houses.  Inside these houses, there was a toilet that would push away the waste water.  This was a huge sanitary improvement which helped with controlling disease.   They also crafted baths, which also helped hugely with hygiene. Seals were used to imprint a mark on an item to signify where it came from.  The dancing girl statue was made my the lost wax method, this shows there was a well developed copper/bronze industry.  4. What additional kids of architectural discoveries would be helpful in furthering our understanding of the Indus valley civilization.  Any way of showing us how the bronze figures would be very important.  This would help us know how they advanced with technology.  Also, finding more seals or how the seals ...

There is an urge to "escape civilization" and it had been a feature in modern life.  I feel the same way, I really love to be alone in nature, woods, or on bodies of water. Civilization represents a particular type of human society made possible from the earlier humans.  The beginning of civilizations started in in 3500 B.C.E.  The Mayan and Teotihuacan were influenced by the Olmec.  Bloodletting and sacrifices were common practices that were taken through civilizations.  Uruk was Mesopotamia largest city, and I think Uruk was in Lord of the Rings, which is cool.   I just looked it up, its uruk-hai from Lord of the Rings, but they are similar! The epic of Gilgamesh is in the textbook, which is very cool because we acted it out during class. In early civilizations, the was a clear distinction between classes.  Free commoners represented the majority. There was also a gender hierarchy, which still exists today sadly.  Men often marries many wom...

To begin I will start with a story about why this is the second time I am writing about the later half of chapter one.  It is a quite simple story, I misread the instructions and did a blog on all of chapter one. Much to my surprise when I saw that chapter one was the homework again, I was confused.  Upon further inspection I realized my blunder and here I am with the rest of chapter one, again! Breakthroughs with agriculture set the standard for living.  Domestication took place and this process made otherwise wild animals, not wild anymore.  Animals could be used to reproduce for the soul propose of food in the future. Also, selective breeding took place so that the maximum product from animals could be collected. One more thing that really caught my attention was a Chiefdom.  I think that it was extremely smart and cool that the village societies banded together politically and relied on gift giving.