Eurasia

When looking back on our history, the odds should have been in the favor of the people already in the Americas, rather than the Europeans. In the videos (Guns, Germs, and Steel) this unit, when talking about the Inca Empire specifically, they are described as the most powerful state in the New World. The Incas also vastly outnumbered the Europeans but they were not as advanced as them. The Europeans were eventually able to dominate the Americas because of the resources available to them.…

technologies, and administrative innovations. Egypt, Persia, and Neo-Assyrians showed these techniques while building their empires. One reason empires are built during this time is climate change. A major drought took place in 1200 BC. In Afro-Eurasia they could not support their people, so they migrated to new places. There were also social upheavals occurring all over. The pharaohs in Egypt stored their food and forcing…

English Assignment - Discuss the ideas of Newspeak and doublethink. How important are these concepts for the Party’s control of Oceania? - Please start your essay with a brief introduction of the author. In this assignment, I am going to discuss and reflect on the ideas of Newspeak and doublethink in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, written by George Orwell. I will look at how important these concepts are for the Party, and how they help the Party of Oceania to control both the proles and…

Why is it that Europeans are developing new technology every day while the people of Papua New Guinea are still using stone tools? Many people believe that the majority of inequality is determined by race, religion, or intelligence, but it’s actually determined by geography. For civilizations to be equal, they would need to have the same advantages as everyone else does and have the same skills and technology at the same time. When a civilization has a fitting climate for growing crops and…

stating, “The Europeans, however, were not the only people with this biological edge, for all the major Middle Eastern And Sian civilizations had the same advantage…The reason is simply that there were more easily domesticated plants and animals in Eurasia that in the America and fewer geographical and ecological barriers to the diffusion of crops, livestock, and agriculture. This cites the claims of Jared Diamond in his book Guns, Germs and Steel that has been routinely picked apart by many…

wave civilizations thrived between 500 C.E. and 1500 C.E. and had well-developed writing systems which allowed people of the period to leave behind first-hand documentation on their experiences. A series of trade networks known as the Silk Road in Eurasia, the Sea Road in the Indian Ocean, and the Sand Road in West Africa made it possible for these three scholars to travel abroad. Information gleaned from these historic first-hand accounts have been invaluable in understanding Indian,…

face of a sheep, and the voice, too, had a sheep-like quality.” (1984, 16) Having the face of sheep connotes that Goldstein is under the Party’s authoritative influence. Later in the novel, it is explained that there is no war between Eastasia and Eurasia. The Party wants society to have a common enemy because “A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war.” (1984, 260) War helps maintain the unification of social structure because it provides society with a common enemy…

marginalized and obligatorily tacked on in the majority of world histories. However, the McNeills go into great detail analyzing this time period, from discussing the fishing techniques used along the Pacific Coast , to the evolution of hunting tools in Eurasia and Africa. This is not due to them meandering, rather them truly emphasizing the importance of humanities earliest structure and customs. They facilitate these accounts with archaeological evidence and anthropological arguments, two…

The Great Influenza The novel The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History was interesting to read from the view point of the award-winning writer John M. Barry. Barry was never any type of scientist, he is a historian who is writing on his thoughts of influenza. Scientists have improved our lives in ways some may not realize; without them society would not be able to treat the deadliest plague in history, influenza. I can imagine the criticism Barry may be getting…

in order to increase their power. However, there is still the question of how the Europeans were able to develop all of these technologies before the Africans did. According to Diamond, all of these technologies went back to food production, with Eurasia having much more food production especially as compared to sub-Saharan Africa. Due to Eurasia’s more advanced systems they were able to benefit from these technologies while the Africans were not able to do the same. Eric R. Wolf, an…