#10 Problems with Tribes

There are many tribes throughout the Middle East. They have always had problems because of the struggle for power between them. There is always a conflict with separated groups or tribes because one always wants control of another tribes well, for example, and visa verse. The hardest part about the power struggle between tribes is that there peoples would have to constantly be ready to move at any moment including all their equipment. So if there was ever a raid, they would have to be able to move quickly and stealthily to avoid being seen by the attackers. Another example of how the problems between tribes affected history, was the struggle between Muhammad's tribe and the Mekkan tribe. Both were very well known tribes and were continually gaining forces, until one day Muhammad told his peoples to attack Mekkah where Avraham had placed all the idols in a large square box. Muhammad later on after defeating the Mekkans descided not to kill all of them and told them that if they joined him they would be spaired.

#9 Religious influences in India

There were many religious influences in India. The first religion to appear in India was Hinduism which began somewhere inbetween 5500–2600 BCE, but modern Hinduism started in 1700–1100 BCE. This first branch of Hinduism is known as the Vedic Period where the idea and religious practices of modern Hinduism were formed. The second main religion was Buddhism which began somewhere around 450 BCE. This was a new formed religion in India that began with Prince Siddhartha who descided to leave his palace, and go see the town. Once out there he found the types of problems everyday people faced and descided to leave his palace and its luxuries to go travel the land. He eventually came to rest under a Bodhi tree after fasting for many days. He vowed not to rise from under the tree till he had achieved nirvana. After completing some tests the God's sent for him, he finally passed and achieved nirvana.

BLOG #8: Can migrations have a positive impact on the people and/or land receiving the immigrants?

Migration can have both positive and negative effects on the group of people living in the region. For example, when the ancient Greeks moved around and created colonies in Turkey, or the South-Eastern part of the Mediterranean, they spread the Greek culture around and influenced the Egyptians enough to create Greek style temples and monuments throughout some of their islands. In return, the Greeks took the Egyptian mummification process and made their own version of the usual Egyptian sarcophagi. Thus they both benefited from migration. This doesn't always happen. Sometimes, like the mongols, they leave a way of destruction in their path. That is why there are both positive and negative effects for migrating.

5. Sparta Vs. Athens

1. If you were a young teenage girl of the citizen class, in which city-state would you rather live? why?

I would live in Athens even though i wouldn't be as intelligent as i would be if i were a Spartan girl. It would give me a chance to raise children and I think that any mother would choose that over education. My child wouldn't be given to the army or helots which is a big difference.

2. If you were a slave, in which would you rather live? why?

I would live in Sparta because I would have had the opportunity to fight in their campaigns. They are, of course, the most experienced and brutal land fighters. More feared than any other army in Europe at the time. And as a slave fighting in the army, i would be given more rights than another slave working at their homes.

3. If you were a boy of the citizen class, in which would you rather live? Why?

Athens because i would have a real, well educated life, rather than a life at war and in the army. Its almost as if all Spartans were raised as orphans because they were assigned families rather than raised by their own parents. Plus the Athenians were more intellectual.

4. If you were a young soldier, in which would you rather live? Why?

I would most definitely choose Sparta because soldiers are respected more and have more rights.  I would also be treated better than i would have if i were a Athenian because they were more intellectually advanced and would avoid a fight if possible while the Spartans would just take it head on.

5. If you were a very wealthy person of the citizen class, in which would you rather live? Why?

I would be an Athenian because the available positions would be great.  You wouldn't be stuck in the army, you could make it as an elected official and a part of the senate.  With the Spartans you would be stuck in the army until you were 60 years old making it impossible to spend any of it, unless you were older than 30 but still would have limited uses for it.

6. Finally, decide to represent either Athens or Sparta and debate which is the

best place to live. Use the chart from class to find criticisms of the other
city-state while praising your own.

Athens because over all its a nicer place to live for a man.  Member this is my point of view not anyone elses.  If this were about a girl, then it might be different.  This is about me though and for a man it is a good place to live because i would be educated and it wouldn't be constant wars.  It is more of a peaceful life in Athens.  The Spartans are a very violent people, who care more for their people, but if not in the army, then they are not as respected.  I would rather live in a more peaceful area with families that raise their own, not other people's children.  That is another problem with the Spartans.  They take their children, and right when they are born they see if they are strong or not.  If they are they keep them, but if they aren't then they throw them off cliffs.  Then they give then to another family to raise them because Spartans can't be raised by their own families.

P.S.  THIS IS SPARTA!!!!!!!!!!!

3. Population growth

Population growth was the most significant development of the Classical Period. True or False?

True, population growth was the most significant development of the classical period.  Farming made it all possible.  The more crops brought in, the more people could survive and eat.  The tool that started it all was iron.  They made the iron into plows and then into weapons.  The plows allowed them to have larger crops and an easier planting process.  The effects of population growth were both negative and positive.  The environmental factor is horrible.  We destroyed forests just to build cities and cleared large areas and paths for roads.  There was also positive affects that occurred during the urbanization.  Peoples immune systems were becoming stronger and were able to resist disease and plague.

2. The Classical Period

The biggest change that happened during this time period i think was the cultural background of each civilization. They all started to become influenced by one another and that changed them to want to rediscover their own methods and include the other styles of doing it. Like when it talks about Syncretism, the art of two cultures together. The example that is given is a sculpture of Buddha with Greek clothing. They soon will get even greater with battle strategies and methods of making materials or collecting crops or farming with irrigation. A good example of that is the Aqueducts from the roman empire that many civilizations now use. Even today we use Aqueducts to collect and transport water over large distances or lengths.

1. Reflection on Yali's

White Europeans were becoming stronger and stronger with there steel tools while the rest of the word was still using wood, stone, or in some sub-Saharan states they were using iron. The Europeans also had a more egotistical side, so they were conquerors, not the conquered. Many tribes such as the aboriginals have been living on the Australian outback for more than 40,000 years hunting and gathering successfully. Now after a couple hundred years of industrialization, cities have organized and mostly because of how the Europeans see them. They see them as unintelligent animals who can't develope in the word. But according to what we know they could even be smarter than we are, but they choose to live off the land and hunt. I feel also that overpopulation caused the Europeans, in there small area of land compared to the rest of the world, to explore their fronteers and to branch out into the rest of the world. In doing so, they felt better educated compared with simpler civilizations.