blog 5

At 500 BC the classical era begun and with it came civilizations that soon turned to empires. But the classical era also brought competition for dominance between civilizations and because of this competition these empires went to war with each other to claim land, resources, and expand. One of the most known empires was the roman Empire. The Roman empire was one of the most successful empires because it protected its citizens, distributed its resources fairly for the most part, it was always advancing technology either through discovery or taking it from rival civilizations, and they always kept there infrastructure up to date and accessible to its citizens. But what also made a empire or civilization great was unique seminal thinkers that gave us these amazing ideas that still identify us as humans today. For example as Socrates came to us from the Greeks and really taught humans to question themselves and purpose on earth.

Blog 4

For this blog i chose to answer the question about the afterlife of a pharaoh, and this is found on page 98 of the text.

 How is the afterlife of the pharaoh represented in this text?

The afterlife of Pharaoh Teti is seen as a passing into a grander height of the pharaoh's already lavish lifestyle. For example it says that all his feast are prepared for him and he passes through a gate that keeps the commoners out but still allows for him to be worshiped alongside his father, who he is reunited with. This means that even in death the Pharaoh will be living in royalty. 

Blog 3

        With the development of civilizations, no matter how small they were, lead to the human race entering the Ancient era. This was really caused by the use of writing that was found in these civilizations. For example one of the first written documents was "The Epic Gilgamesh", that was written my Mesopotamian people. But with this heightended intelligence humans still needed to fill the lust to compete and they ended up taking it out on other homo sapiens. For example the feeling of wealth, power, and status came into play. This is where i believe humans started to fall down the slippery slope that lead to our war and power thirsty society that we have today. Because back then people started to think they were better then others just because they had more wealth and they started taking advantage of people who did not have as much wealth. Now almost all of the negative events that happen in  are more recent history was fueled by the need to fill either greed wealth, status, or power.

Blog 2

With the discovery of agriculture it the human race into a new era, the Neolithic era or the new stone age. I like to believe that the discovery in agriculture was a huge reason to why the human race not only survived but flourished. It allowed us to stay n one spot and we were then able to secure and supply this one spot, making a safe strong environment for its citizens. This sense of safety then allowed humans to use more of their mind and focus on different talents, so to speak, like art, farming, and building a more structured environment. The next interesting thing this chapter brought up at the end was Nissa's account. This account got me curious, because i didn't really know if i should really believe that paleolithic gatherer hunters really lived, because Nissa's tribe could of evolved over the many year. But still it is the closest thing we can get to these gatherer and hunter tribes. I did however find the concept of a egalitarian relationship to be incredible. Because the idea of no ego and community that appreciates the work of all its members equal sounds like a unreachable utopia to me. I think that because of the way the human race is today, it feed off jealousy, greed and ego, and i can only wish we could go back tot that simple egalitarian relationship, for the good of everybody.

Blog 1

The  first part of chapter 1, left me feeling kind of confused and in awe. I was feeling like this because it is explaining how the human race or Homo Sapiens were able to travel from continent to continent, but leaves me here wondering how they were able to make these incredible journeys with out a stable water supply. Unless they just followed rivers to there source and then moved on to the next, that is the only way of travel i can think of.  I do admire the structure of their small band or clans, because to make these incredible journeys takes incredible structure and communication, that could be shattered by just a little bit of disagreement or jealousy within their group.