Kristina Pinochi

in this chapter Strayer discusses the events that lead up to the modern era. The renaissance was the rebirth of Greek Humanism. During this time European was conquesting a lot of the world which meant they were sharing their ideas to places like, Mexico, Asia, South America, Africa, and Australia. A key part of this chapter that I learned was that even though the world was approaching the Modern Era, people were still living past era lifestyles. For example, North and South America and Australia were still living Paleolithic lifestyles. What I mean by that is they were still migrating and gathering/ hunting. Different parts in Africa, the Americas, and Asia were living like Neolithic people by using a lot of agriculture. Just because technological advances were happening in other places did not mean that everyone was living like a classical or Modern era person. The title of our textbook is, Ways of the World  and I believe that Strayer titled the book that because there are a lot ...

This was the first time that Ive read or learned about the Mongols. After reading I was surprised that I had not in any other history class because the Mongols played a major part in uniting Eurasia. They supported trade by creating a massive network and that allowed Europe to get China's ideas and technology. For the first time paper money and banking was introduced. The reason the Mongols had a very powerful military was because they forced people to fight and if they refused they would kill them and it is hard for people to respect them. The Mongols conquered and took over China and had the largest land base in all of human history. I thought it was really amazing that there was gender equality. Women had rights and were allowed to fight in the military. I also liked reading that they did not force anyone to follow their culture or religion. Overall the Mongols had a lot of accomplishments in a short period of time.