Ways of the World Chapter 1

Old Stone Age, represents 95 percent of the amount of time humankind has occupied the planet

It was highlighted by the deliberate cultivation of plants and the taming and breeding of animals It directly lead to growing populations, settled villages, and a boom of technological innovation

relied on domesticated animals(sheep, goats, horses, camels) to harvest meat hide and for transport and warfare.

positions of power would be inherited

oldest and most prominent religion in India

a series of texts written between 800 and 400 BCE and were in summary, a unified understanding of reality itself from the point of view of Hinduism

suffering was a direct result of desire and that in order to live a peaceful life, one had to pronounce human weakness and desire in order to reach nirvana

a prince from a small kingdom in north India, the founder of Buddhism, known as the Bhudda

portrayed the Buddha as a wise teacher but not divine

later developed and offered a greater accessibility to a spiritual path

devotion to several of India’s many gods and goddesses.

derived from Confucian, a learned aristocrat who believe that in order to reach social and political harmony respect had to be applied to unequal relationships ex: father and son, husband and wife, the older brother and younger brother, ruler and subject

was around 200 B.C.E., Confucianism was the official ideology

ridiculed the efforts of Confucianism and urged withdrawing into the world of nature and encouraged behavior that was spontaneous, individualistic, and natural

begin around 200 B.C.E. and were a complex system linking China and the Mediterranean world

traversed the Indian ocean in the South China Sea and linked the diverse people living between southern China and east Africa

linked north Africa in the Mediterranean world with the people of interior west Africa