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Strayer really brought me back to 7th grade when reading about the Silk Roads and Sea Roads again. Its really bizarre to think that when the roads originally started, people were walking and not using animals for transportation. Also it seems that once the Sea Roads were established economies seamed to flourish more but with the accelerated trade came more death. Im starting to wonder if the reason religion is as big as it currently is; could be due to the fact, that people back then did not have the technology/science, that we due currently, to help their sick family/friends from the foreign diseases. Im curious which of the 3 main "roads" of commerce was more treacherous. It seems at this time in China women's role in society was even more then in recent history. However, compared to other cultures they were some of the most restrictive. Lastly its great how

This read was very interesting. It seemed as if the more force and the quicker a civilization rose to power the quicker it fell and the more it was forgotten. One main theme tying a civilization to its people seemed to be with China and the root of Confucianism. This deep rooted religion can be related to another flourishing civilization, India. Through Siddhartha's teachings, Buddhism became a huge role in unifying people with the polytheistic view unlike Confucius and Daoism. However, just because these two civilizations has the base root of religion to fall back on doesn't mean their cultures were anything alike. Strayer states the "Chinese and Greek... focused more on the affairs of the world and credited human rationality" in their way of understanding the world where "India, Persia, and Jewish intellectuals... explored the... relationship of God or the gods to human life"(pg 148). Basically these two different groups of people looked at their lives thr...

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