Intro to Part 2 and Chapter 3

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Intro to Part 2: The intro basically discusses the fall of the first wave of civilizations. These civilizations were described as fragile and basically set the stage for the empires that were to come. These empires included the Persian, Greek, Roman, and Chinese Empires.

Chapter 3: Chapter 3 primarily compared these empires, specifically the Persian to the Greek, and the Roman to the Chinese Empire. Both the Persian and Greek empires were massive, the Persian even larger than the Greek. The Persian Empire had very powerful monarchies, who could essentially execute anyone who was in the wrong in their eyes. The Greek Empire was made up of many city-states, which were constantly fighting one another even though they all worshipped the same god and spoke the same language. Both the Roman and Chinese empires flourished at the same time. They also were similar sizes, however, they had little to no contact and were not really aware of each other. Even though all of these empires had different tactics, they all eventually came and went.

I think this was partiularly interesting because mostly everyone imagines the Roman, Greek and Persian empires when you think of this time period. It interesting to learn the Chinese empire flourished at the same time as the Romans, because it is much less thought about.

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  1. MalaikaSeptember 26, 2018 at 4:10 PM

    So interesting and weird to read about how these empires were around and flourishing at the same exact time and yet had no contact or interactions with each other. Especially weird in comparison to how much we interact with other countries/cultures today

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