China's Renaissance

When we think about a renaissance period, we often think about Europe's Renaissance period, however, China underwent a rebirth period as well. This renaissance occurred in the classical ear of which seminal thinkers and technology was more advanced than the Ancient era. One reason we believe China went through a renaissance period is because China had an economic boom that influenced more trade and advanced technological ideas. Some technology that was discovered by China during this renaissance was gun powder, paper, and the iron plow. These revolutionary products increased the lifestyle of almost every citizen in China. (Gun Powder for military, Iron Plow for Farmers, Paper for everyone). The government also developed a new tax system that allowed trade to be more efficient and citizens to be more economically impacting.
I believe China had a significant renaissance such as Europe because of all of the things that I mentioned earlier. If China weren't able to somehow go through this period, China could possibly be much different and most likely less advanced than how they are today.

Chapter 12 Reading

During the fifteenth century, there were hundreds of different types of civilizations. Most of the world's population was concentrated in Eurasia. During the Mongol crusade, China went through a massive population lost but still contained much of the world's population. However, despite the massive impact the Mongols made, China went through a huge cultural and religion change after the time of the Mongols. China became the biggest and most prosperous empire's due to their economic boom and population increase.
In the western side, things were not going too well. Although the Mongols had left Europe, the black plague had scoured across the continent killing much of the population. One thing that Europe did differently than China was that Europe decided to rebuild in different small states which lead to competitiveness and eventually war. China was able to rebuild their lifestyle in an organized, single mattered way. 

Chapter 9

Besides Christianity, there was a new religion that was spreading like a wild fire. However, unlike Christianity which spread through small groups, Islam took over large areas quickly such as cities and regions. In Islamic eyes, women are equal as men in their spiritual life. The founder of Islam was named Mohammad Ibn Abdullah, who was believed to be a prophet and brought messages from God to the people. Mohammad was a trader and traveled all the way to Syria. Like Jesus, Mohammad   underwent a religious experience that convinced him he was the messenger from Allah to the Arabs. Islam was not only seen as a religion but also an empire that strived for success.  As this empire grew, Islam spread further across the land and became one of the biggest religions in the world.

The Worlds of Christendom

This chapter explains how Christianity became one of the world's religion. Christianity played a huge role in World History. Christianity was a hostile religion at first and it took time and blood shed for Christianity to be accepted. For an example, Constantine won a war that made him the emperor of Rome which allowed him to let Christianity be accepted in Rome. The characteristics of Christendom had a life long impact as well as going into the modern era. The characteristics emerged during the era of the third wave civilization. 
Reading this chapter was very interesting and entertaining because I am currently enrolled in a Christianity course that explained how Christianity came to be from the start and when I read this chapter, I was able to relate some of the facts to my Christianity class, however, when I read an interesting fact that I didn't know, It caught my attention and encouraged me to read much more

Chapter 7

Chapter seven discussed the different type of roads that were used crossed the world as transportation, trading routes, and much more. The different roads this chapter talked about was silk road, sand road, and sea road. Silk roads are roads that are based in Eurasia. This road help provide transportion for civilizations in Eurasia. These roads were like a network that spread all over the continent. If it weren't for these roads, ideas, materials, religion, and items would not have diffused from one side of the continent to the other by trade. Sand roads was based in Europe and Africa and helped encourage and develop long distance trade. Sea roads were mainly used in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean which allowed transportation on water that could be used for trade or military purposes. The road that was used by certain civilization depending on the location of the civilization and without these roads, transportation would have been very difficult.

Chapter Six

Chapter six talks about The Americas and Africa and how much they accomplished, and how much culture they had, for how little of them there were. I thought this chapter was very interesting because this chapter focused on some religions in both the Americas and Africa. One religion they talked about focused on the Bantu people of Africa and how they were occupied in southern and central Africa.
When we think about Africa, we think about how we all migrated from that region, however, during this time only abut eleven percent of the world's population occupied Africa. Nubia was a Nile Valley civilization that was competitive for material wealth and land. The did a great job building a civilization near the Nile river allowing for agricultural needs and transportation. However, the people who decided to migrate out of Egypt was able to find habitable regions in places such as the Niger river where city states were a useful idea for civilization. 

Chapter 3 Reading

Chapter three talks about empires and civilization in North Africa and Eurasia (Europe/Asia) which these civilizations had to organize its society based on political and cultural stances. These empires included Persia, Greece, Rome, China, and India which went through both domination and triumph from competitive civilizations. Comparing China to Rome, I feet that China was a more quality civilization than Rome, because it was a more independent civilization and although it had a fall of a major empire, they were able to rebuild a new dynasty that benefited China greatly.
Regardless to how powerful these civilizations were, they lost control of many aspects of their civilization including population, politics, and religion. Although many civilizations during these times fell over the coming years, their ideas, lifestyles, cultural, and technology still stick with us today and impacted millions overtime.