Chapter 6

The worlds population was very unevenly distributed from 500 BCE-1200 CE.  About 85% of the worlds population was in Eurasia.   The americas lacked domesticated animals and most of the animals were llamas and alpacas.  Africa lacked wild sheep, goats, chickens, horses, and camels, but since Africa was so close to Eurasia, it meant than once animals were domesticated, they could be moved to Africa.  Parts of Africa interacted with parts of Eurasia because of it's geographical location. Many civilizations in Africa grew because of the continents environmental variations. Meroë is a nile valley civilization and I really like the characters used in its name.   They were governed by an all-powerful and sacred monarch.  It was held at least 10 times by women as well, which is really cool!  Meroë was very wealthy and had a very powerful military.  They had iron weapons and cloth, as well as many other materials which amounted to great wealth.  They could trade with people very far away as well.  Axum was the emergence of a new civilization from African/Nubian decent.   during the fourth through sixth centuries Axum went on a huge imperial expansion conquest. by 571 they started the decline. The terra-cotta statues from Jenne-Jeno are ugly and look very very funny. Mayan people had cerimonial centers as early as 2000 BCE.  Teotithuacan (teeo-ti-thuac-an)begun around 150 BCE.  The building here, both public and private were decorated with murals. They also had a grid like pattern, just like the Indus valley people. in 200 BCE the Moche people held a 250 mile stretch  of Peru's northern coast. 

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