History Adventures with Jovanna

     Another day learning some new history facts from “Ways of the World” by Robert W. Strayer that I did not really know much about before. I am going to skip over Chapter 3, Chapter 4 and Chapter 6 and go into Chapter 5 “Society and Inequality in Eurasia/North Africa” by Strayer. I was particularly drawn to the the way that society was divided in China in the ancient world and what mainly led to this was through the society of the people/state. According to Strayer, “its rulers required each province to send men of promise to the capital, where they were examined and chosen for official positions on the basis of their performance (pg.193).” However, this then lead to a new system in which people were ranked one above the other according to their status, authority. This system was broken into three social classes; the Landlord class, Peasants, and Merchants. When I think of Landlord class I think of someone who has property and or manages such property. In Chin...

I am starting off by saying I will try to recap and put my feelings down as best as possible with what I can understand and retain from the readings from “Ways of the World” by Robert W. Strayer. This is a subject very difficult for me yet interesting so bare with me on this blogging journey. In the beginning it all started with Science called “Big History”, I had no idea but makes sense to me. I wont touch too much on that because we don’t really get into that in this class but boy I would love to learn more. Science is in our everyday life and may make more sense about certain things that are happening around us. I understand why we need to remember the major eras; they have already come about in the readings. The five major eras that will be discussed in the blog are; Paleolithic Era (old stone age), Neolithic Era (new stone age), Ancient Era, Classical Era and Modern Era. The book has started with the first peoples and first farmers. In Africa is where Homo-sapiens ha...

All ready to go, lets do this!!