blog 5

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.