Part 2 Chapter 3

The introduction to part 2 opens talking about the changes from our first civilizations to our next civilization, they called this time the Age of Agriculture just like in the neolithic era. Compared to the first civilizations there were a lot of "minor changes' at least according to the author but since there was no technological advancement to further enhance resources this time period was in some ways a bust. From a political standpoint however, we learn that there were some changes that can still be seen today.

Learning about the rise of the Persian and Greek was really interesting to me. Two nations adjacent to one another one of about 50-60 million people and the other with about 5-6 million. It's hard to really see the greek empire prevailing and being able to hold its own against a huge army from a nation known to expand via conquest while greece was known to expand via settlement. The persian empire was sort of like a "one nation under emperor" type of place which to me was really funny yet interesting because of all their rituals held in honour of their emperor at the time.

 To me the rise of greece was also a surprise because of their lack of a unified political system throughout their city states. Though these nations shared the same language and God they could only get along once every 4 years for their olympics.

I believe their non ability to get along led to their nation losing in the peloponnesian war. This war saw the end of Athens and led to Macedonia taking over. this is how Greece began his reign. 

Alexander the Great when he was around my age did more than I ever could lead an army to defeat the persians.. They even started their own expansion via conquest until alexander died.

THe other to empires talked about rose from conquest due to their brutal military. 

 The romean Empire went from rags to riches story and in a way so did the chinese empire. THere was a funny story about how rome repopulated when they were in poverty but i don't think its the best idea to mention that here. EIther way in the end all of the nations feel either to conquest , death or lack of resource and the main reason for that lack of resources wasbecaue of no technological advancement to enhance those resources on the growing populations. 

Although these empires had their hardships id love to live in this era, Preferably in the mediterrainean or india which at the time saw the change in their cultures and became a huge melting pot of culture.