Renaissance

The classical china renaissance is a different role in women than europe renaissance. The golden age of song dynasty china was less than the golden for many of its women, its another turning point in the history of chinese patriarchy. The paintings and statues shown women riding horses, while the queen mother of the west a daosit deity was worshipped by females daoist priest. There was a rapid growth in women and restore some of the earlier han dynasty notions of female submissions and passivity. Confucian writers highlighted the subordination of women to men and the need to keep men and women separated in everyday life. There is a song dynasty examples of the boys and girls.
"The boy leads the girl, the girl follows the boy, the duty of husbands to be resoulted and wives to be docile beings with this" For men it came to be defined less in terms of horseback riding, athleticism and etc. Women qualities emphasized women's weakness, delicacy. Women were frequently viewed as a distraction to men's pursuit of contemplative and introspective life. The remarriage of widows was condemned for "to walk through two courtyards is a source of shame for a women."Many women became a rite of passage and source of some pride in their tiny feet and beautiful slippers that encased them even the occasion for poetry for some women. In other ways the song dynasty witnessed more positive trends in the lives of women. The chinese renaissance is not true because the renaissance is rebirth of classical greek humanism. People in the renaissance become humanist and that was the point of it.

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Christianity came to provide a measure of culture commonality for the diverse peoples of western Eurasia much as Chinese civilizations and Buddhism did for those of East asia and Islam did for the middle east and beyond. At the same time the Christian time became deeply divided. The story of global christendom in the era of third wave civilization is one of contractions and expansions. As a religion christianity contracted sharply in asia and Africa even as it expanded in western Europe and russia. Elsewhere in the middle east other jewish and christian communities soon felt the impact of islam.

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The Arabian Peninsula had been inhabited by nomadic Arabs, know as Bedouins who herded she eps and camels in seasonal migrations. The people lived in fiercely independent clans and tribes which engaged in bitter blood feuds with one another. They recognized a variety of gods, ancestors, and nature spirits; valued personal bravery, group loyalty and hospitality and greatly treasured their highly expressive oral poetry. There was more to arabia than camel herding nomads. It scattered the highlands of yemen and the mountains, communities and northern and southern regions of arabia. Arabia also had important trade routes that connected the Indian ocean world with Mediterranean sea.

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Christianity came to provide a measure of cultural commonality for the diverse people of Western Eurasia much as Chinese civilization and Buddhism did for those of east asia and islam for the middle east and beyond. The part of the Christian word become deeply divided. As a religion, Christianity contacted sharply in Asia and Africa as it expanded in western Europe and russia.
In Egypt christianity had become the religion of the majority by the time the muslim conquest around 640 and the next 500 years. Large numbers continued to speak and practice their religion as legally inferior but protected people paying a special tax.

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Not just good traveled but also diseases too traveled the trade routes of Eurasia. This population developed characteristic disease patterns. When human contact communities came along and people were exposed to unfamiliar diseases for which they had little immunity or few effective methods of coping. Even more widespread diseases affected the Roman Empire and Han dynasty China as the Silk Road contact all across. Smallpox and measles collapse. The most well known disease was associated with Mongol Empire. In the long run the exchange of diseases gave Europeans a certain advantage when they confronted the people of Western Hemisphere after 1500.  

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I chose Africa because I would like to know about there culture. There culture depends on what tribe there in. The bantu-speaking people interacted with the new comers although they establish there societies and culture. Also there are differences between the hunter gathers and the farmers. The farmers were more prone to the disease than hunter gathers because they were living closer to the animals. The farmers had a bigger population although they were more prone they were able to resist it more. Hunter gather women had higher ranking than women in farming society.

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Intro to part two
Human journey moves into the second and third waves of civilization. It is not much different from the first one. State and empires rose, expanded and collapsed with tiresome regularity. Monarchs continued to rule most of the new civilization, women remained subordinate to men in all of them, a sharp divide between the elite and everyone else. No technology or economic occurred to create new kinds of human societies as the agricultural revolution had done earlier. The major turning points in human history did occurred earlier in the emergence of agriculture and the birth of the first civilization and would occur later with the industrialization.


Chapter 3 State and Empire in Eurasia/ North Africa
Critics warned that the Roman Empire was overextended abroad and corrupt and dictatorial at home and then collapse, the similar fate may await the U.S. empire. The Eurasia empire second wave era later collapsed providing a useful reminder to their descendants of the fleeting nature of all human creations.
North Africa and Eurasia did not encounter each other as each established its own political system, cultural values and ways of organizing the society.