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In this chapter we start to learn about the transregional interaction in the third wave era. With this we start to see more communication throughout the world but not really including Europe. We start to see the spread of cultures and different goods into different areas that never had these goods in the first place. There are 3 routes that were used throughout the world to help with this transregional interaction. The first being the Silk Road which involved China, India, Persia, and Europe. On the silk roads they were trading silk, textiles, gunpowder, paper, ginger, and jewelry.  This trading was done over the land so the best source of travel was the camel since it could hold a lot of water and travel far distances.  It provided a way for the Afro Eurasian people share there cultures and goods with each other. The next route was the Sand route which was located in Africa and a little bit of the mediteraniean. The trade routes only were upper Africa and a little bit of Midd...

By the time man left Africa they spread onto the 3 supercontinents of the time which were the Americas, Eurasia, and Africa.  But the population was unevenly distributed, about 85% of humans lived in Eurasia after the Agricultural Revolution. Also, many countries didnt have the animals/ livestock that we have today because they were all in different areas and continents at the time and havent been moved yet. like Eurasia and the Americas, Africa had many different societies and cultures and they were the most tropicla out of the three super continents becuse of them being closer to the equator. We see the Nile Valley as a very important source for Egypts agriculture and it was the center of Egyptian dynasty. In 100 C.E. we see that the African lands start to see the emregence of christianty this is due to the trade they had within the Red Sea and the Kingdom of Meroe declined. In Mesoamerica we see the domestication of very big animals which was a big advancement in humanity b...

Source 4.1  1. I think that artists might be reluctant to show Buddha in his human form because he is seen as a divine individual and like it said in the reading when Buddha past away it is taught that he reached Nirvana, therefore he wasn't considered human anymore but more of a spiritual being.  2. Buddha taught about the wheel of Darma and it is one of his most important teachings and it says that the wheel represents the path to enlightenment. I think it could also mean something about life and how it keeps on going even after you die if you reach nirvana.  3. I think that the Yakshis adds a feminine touch to the buddha and the artist could have been showing respect to women or because the women represent fertility it could have been a shrine to help women with fertility.  4. It might tell people to keep trusting and following the path of buddha, because he was able to do it so you can to. I also thinks it can givde people cofidence because seein...

China had a search for order from 500-221 B.C. because during this time there was chaos, growing violence, and disharmony, this period became known as the age of warring states. They had many thinkers come together and try to figure out what they should do to answer this problem either use the legalist way or the Confucian way or the Daoist way. The Cultural traditions of India were very different from China, while china believed in Confucianism, India's main religion was Hinduism which the two were very different. While Hinduism was coming into play we also see the emergence of Buddhism, Buddhism spread very fast, quickly spreading past India and into many other empires. While in the Middle East we see a monotheistic approach to religion compared to India and China.  We see the emergence of Persian Zoroastrianism and in Judaism, these two monotheistic religions soon become the basis of modern-day Christianity and Islam. some of the main religions fo the Persian empire we...