Miguelsworldhistoryblog

The collapse of the Han Dynasty around 200 CE ushered in more than three centuries of political fragmentation in China and signaled the rise of powerful and locally entrenched aristocratic families.  China gained its city under the Sui dynasty unlike the Roman Empire The dynastic collapse, however, witnessed no prolonged disintegration of the Chinese state.  The Tang and the Song dynasty built on the Sui foundations. Politically, the Tang and Song dynasties built a state structure that endured for a thousand years. Six major ministries. Personnel, finance, rites, army, justice, and public works.  Selecting officials on the basis of merit represent a challenge to established aristocratic families' hold on public office. Underlying these cultural and political achievement was an "economic revolution" that made Song dynasty China "by far the richest, most skilled, and most populous country on earth."  Many people found their way to the cities, making chin...

Miguel Chavez Chapter 6 For most people, the second-wave era evokes most vividly the civilizations of Eurasia-- the Greeks and the Romans, the Persians and the chines, and the Indians of South Asia-- yet those were not the one civilization of that era.  During this time in Mesoamerica the Maya and the Andean Tiwanaku thrived, as did several civilizations in sub-Saharan Africa, including Meroe, Axum and the Niger River Valley.  Were part of that grand process of human migration that initially people the planet. Beginning in Africa, that vast movement of humankind subsequently encompassed Eurasia, Australia, the Americas, and Pacific Oceania.  Gathering fishing and hunting was used for survival.  In the beginning it was estimated that the population on earth was 250 million people.  Eurasia had 85 percent Africa had 10 percent Americas had 5 percent Parts of Africa interacted with Eurasian civilization due to his geographic location.  Arabia, ...

Miguel Chavez World History Chapter 2 The earliest of these civilization emerged around 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE in three places. One was the cradle of Middle Eastern Civilization, expressed in the many and competing city states of Sumer in Southern Mesopotamia.  Sumerians civilization like gave rise to the worlds earliest written language which was used initially by officials to record the goods received by various temples.  In northeastern Africa witnessed the mergence of Egyptian civilization famous for its pharaohs and pyramids, as well as a separate civilization known as Nubia, farther south along the Nile.  Recently discovered a third civilization that was developing along the central coast of Peru from roughly 3000 BCE to 1800 BCE at about the same time as Egypt and Sumer.  Norte Chico, 3000-1800 BCE Indus Valley and Oxus, 2200 BCE-1700 BCE Xia, Shang and Zhou 2200-711BCE Olmec, 1200 BCE The development of Agriculture. Agricultural Revolution  ...

Breakthrough in Agriculture In this chapter it talks about the development of humankind and the way they changed the world. Humankind it self began to change the world from using things in nature to changing and evolving everything around them. For example, farmers everywhere stamped the landscape with a human imprint in the form of fields with boundaries terraced hillsides irrigation ditches and canals. Animals were also changed to fit humankind needs. Sheep began to grow more wool, cows gave more milk and chickens laid more eggs than their world counterpart. 

Miguel Chavez WH1 Chapter 1. Africa has witnessed much less archeological research than any other country in the world, which could mean that they could be signs of earlier human-like mammals that yet needs to be discovered. Homo sapiens first emerged around 250,000 to 200,000 thousand years ago. These type of mammals were human-like following in the footsteps of other species before it. Human began to get smarter and smarter and decided to migrate to new environments within Africa, such as forests and deserts. The migration did not just stop there, between 100,000 and 60,000 years ago, humans began to migrates to other countries such as the middle east and Europe. Migration and habituating of new environments became something that happen every few thousands of years. The last phase of the great human migration took place in the Pacific Ocean. Places like Philippines, Madagascar, Indonesia and many more areas were migrated to. The low technology that the early Human Societies had...