Chapter 7: Classical Era Variation

Chapter 7: Classical Era Variation

            This chapter helps support my statement about how confusing this book can be in organizing its information with that being said the information that was provided it seemed to lean towards how amazing these three major continents from the classical era were.  Most of the reading was incredible with what depth was covered, so much detail about each continents civilization. The wide variety that was highlighted covered culture, city states, governments and some important officials, even talked about how the peasants survived and how revolutionary agriculture was. Most of the reading was hard to digest especially due to some of the information was not necessary. A quote that stood out to me was on page 183 in ways of the world and it said “when historians refer to the Africa during the classical era they are speaking generally of a geographic concept, a continental landmass, and not a cultural identity, no one living on the continent at that time at that time thought of himself or herself as an African.” I wanted to use this quote as an example of something shocking and unnecessary. As you continue on with the reading you learn more about the civilizations that have been in their section since 100 B.C.E. to 200 B.C.E. which is pretty awesome to know especially how detailed the author goes when mentioning the cultivated land and how soil erosion factors into the process and expansion of agriculture but some cons were warm temperatures.