BLOG #15: Chapter 12 - The Worlds of the Fifteenth Century

Chapter 12 was interesting because it focused on the world in the Fifteenth Century but I was more interested on the sections of the Paleolithic persistence on Australia and North America and the section on the Inca Empire. In the Paleolithic Persistence it talked about how Australia changed overtime but more slowly than their agricultural counterparts and how the paleolithic way of life still had a sizable and variable presence in the world of the fifteenth century. I was interested in the Inca empire because like China the book mentioned that they erected a rather more bureaucratic empire. They had the top ruler which was their emperor who had absolute power. I liked reading about how the state owned all land and resources and how subjects werwe grouped into hierarchical units because I like learned about how different political systems and governments worked in past empires compared to ours in America today.