To kick off Chapter 3 on page 107, we start to read about The Persians and The Greeks. Starting with the Persian Empire, I have heard about the Persian Empire multiple times throughout both high school and middle school but did not pay attention because I was an ignorant child and not mature in the head lol, was considered which I knew as one of the largest empires, but I definately did not know they were "the most impressive" like wow, such a high standard being set for the beginning of the chapter lol. I also learned that when their king died the Persians were expected shave their hair "in mourning" meaning basically deep sarrow. I found this not really weird, because my culture back home is weird, but very foreign. Like I could just cry for their loyalty to shave off their hair, THATS A WHOLE DIFFERENT LEVEL *crying emoji* ....anyways, moving on from the amazing, amazing persians the Chapter also kicked off with the Greeks, which when we hear Greeks we all think about Classical Greek and so to say Classical Greeces fame emerged in around 750 B.C.E, which I have heard in class but still act like its something new to me lol. I find a lot of interest in learning about Greece because of Greek Mythology. On page 110 of the chapter, right at the kick off of the Greeks, Zeus and Apollo which immediately grabbed my attention. But of course, from my experience, everytime Zeus and Apollo are brought up, war is brought up too lol. The paragraph basically ended with "the civilization of Athens and Sparta, of Plato and Aristotle, of Zeus and Apollo to shape and collided with its giant neighbor to the east". The beginning of the chapter basically talks about collisions between empires and civilizations, example being Alexander and Hellenistic Era where Alexander son of Philip lead a large expedition (of course of Greeks) against the Persian Empire. I have to say this Chapter was a lot more interesting to me because a lot of the material I know I have learned before and it was just more clarifying to me, but also who doesn't like reading about wars? Or even Greek Mythology?
OCTOBER 14, 2017: (ADD ON TO BLOGS; MIDTERM STUDYING; READING OVER PEERS BLOGS)
- THERE IS A DIFFERENCE IN "GOLDEN ERA" BETWEEN WESTERN CIVILIZAITON AND WORLD HISTORY
- FALL OF ROME IN 476 AD
- MULTIPLE CIVILIZATIONS = EMPIRE
--COMMON CULTURE
-- COLLECTION OF CIVILIZATIONS
-- CENTRAL ORGANIZATION OR GOVERNMENT
-- ACT OF CONQUEST
-- TRIBUTE/TAXES TO BE PAID
-- EXCHANGE FOR PROTECTION
-- TRADE
-- INFRASTRUCTURE
---MAIL=DEVELOPED IN PERSIAN EMPIRE
---AND ROADS
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