ch 3

State and Empire in Eurasia/North Africa

500 B.C.E-500 C.E.

In this era it reveals that empires had risen and fallen regularly. Everything in civilization was basically in a plateau where no new innovations, (after the agricultural revolution) were being made or discovered. Empires and states looked to conquer one another. The population of humans began to grow. "Wisdom traditions" were brought to light in this time era too. These are confucianism, daoism, hinduism, buddhism, ratianolism, judaism, islam and christianity. All originating from either china, india or the middle east. Slaves were common in these civilizations. A theme for this chapter is what makes up an empire? The answer is that it is a series of states that coercively work together with agriculture, business' and a military to conquer foreign states/land to provide for the empire.