Intro to part 2
-States organized around the cities, early states were everywhere around the states by kings who employed a variety of ranked officials, controlled majority of society, and defended against China, Mesoamerica.
-the Greek empire were a small competing city-states with 2-3 million people in total. There were a lot of conflicts between them and often stopped bickering for the Olympic Games.
•Reading this part of the section was interesting just because they would take their anger amongst each other at the Olympic Games.
Chapter 3:
-Empires always seem to amaze me because it’s part of these people’s lives. It talks about the second wave of civilization which were China, Eurasia, India, Persia, and Mediterranean. In China, the Han dynasty empire ended in 220 C.E. and the Roman Empire ended 476 C.E. Both of these empires affected the environments, invested in public works, and a social class.
-The fall of the empires were due to the fact that it was too large and expensive, and the poor were heavily taxed.
- These empire basically created a hierchy or social class. People were definitely treated different in these early empires in Rome and China. Brutality was always one of the issues, while the other issue was waiting for your empire to be invaded and overthrown.
"Serving is different from helping and fixing"
The article mentions that helping is using your own strengths to help those with less strength, and serving more of doing with a feeling g of gratitude. I understand what this article is trying to say because most of the time, when I help someone they usually mention that they "owe me one."
-States organized around the cities, early states were everywhere around the states by kings who employed a variety of ranked officials, controlled majority of society, and defended against China, Mesoamerica.
-the Greek empire were a small competing city-states with 2-3 million people in total. There were a lot of conflicts between them and often stopped bickering for the Olympic Games.
•Reading this part of the section was interesting just because they would take their anger amongst each other at the Olympic Games.
Chapter 3:
-Empires always seem to amaze me because it’s part of these people’s lives. It talks about the second wave of civilization which were China, Eurasia, India, Persia, and Mediterranean. In China, the Han dynasty empire ended in 220 C.E. and the Roman Empire ended 476 C.E. Both of these empires affected the environments, invested in public works, and a social class.
-The fall of the empires were due to the fact that it was too large and expensive, and the poor were heavily taxed.
- These empire basically created a hierchy or social class. People were definitely treated different in these early empires in Rome and China. Brutality was always one of the issues, while the other issue was waiting for your empire to be invaded and overthrown.
"Serving is different from helping and fixing"
The article mentions that helping is using your own strengths to help those with less strength, and serving more of doing with a feeling g of gratitude. I understand what this article is trying to say because most of the time, when I help someone they usually mention that they "owe me one."
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