Xerena'sWorldHistoryBlog

What pieces of advice should our presidential hopefuls listen to? While reading through the list, I feel like they could take a little something from all of them. I feel like they all show something similar yet different within each piece. The ones that stood out to me the most were XV.31, IV.5, especially XV.24, XIV.29, and XV.36. I think these stuck out the most because I would think about what's been happening in the world, stuff I would see on social media about this president, and would think about like what happens during election time, and most importantly, I asked myself what kind of president do I want to vote for. Almost all of them stood out to me, but those 5 really got my attention. Overall I believe the leaders should really look at those because some could be related to like speeches during election time, and being more considerate and mindful towards the people.

Overall to me, the most interesting thing in the part 2, was the communities in civilization because it talks about the growth of humans overtime. To me it's interesting the way we can adapt to things and all the things we've slowly learned how to do. Whether it be a major breakthrough for human-kind, or something small, when one really thinks about it, it's pretty much all a breakthrough. Humans have been able to learn to do so much overtime. Although there had been flaws and such, and there still are, it's more of just a learning lesson so that the generations that come, don't make the same mistakes as us. Which was most likely the case back then too as well. I believe overall in history, everything connects in one way or another. While reading about the Collapse of Empires, I was able to connect it back to the overall idea of growth humans have. With the empires falling, it was a step towards the future. Things might not have been so simple back then since the...

Question: How did the various First Civilizations differ from one another? All the civilizations differed in one way or another, Egypt and Mesopotamia were known as the 'primary' ones, even though there were others who had been much larger. By 1700 B.C.E the Indus Valley had already been in decline, which was a big difference compared to the center of Indian and South Asian civilization. Due to the decline in the Indus Valley, and the shift for the other two, it lead to all distinct memory of the Indus Valley in its' earlier times to vanish. Also with the decline, it was almost impossible to decipher the  writing they had left behind, so the only thing they had was whatever physical remains they could find. For example, the seals they would find would have images of drawings, which is what they would look at since they couldn't find out what the title had been saying. Some other from the first civilizations and the later ones would have been how it had expended out ...

The thing that most caught my attention was the topic on hierarchies. To me this was interesting because of the overall idea of how it came to be. As in what factors determined what, who decided what made things those ways and how the classes were set up. Also just realizing that to this day we still follow that even though it's a bit more questionable on how real it is. Since there are many many outside factors to take into account with all the things that have happened, and all the things they want to happen. It also interested me on what things they used to "show" who was a higher rank and who was lower. A lot of rules are extremely questionable, especially since some are in a way still in place today. Overall, this was the most interesting topic to me because when it comes to power and how it came to be, there are many questions I could ask on a topic like that.

I found the section that talked about Common Patterns the most interesting. The topic about how all the large animals went extinct has always intrested me because i had always seen movies with those animals in them, and there were always different variations of the story of how they went extinct. Also, with the idea that women were the ones who really started farming since men always love to take credit for everything. Overall those two topics caught my attention the most due to the selective things it went over.