Yee world history blog

The main homeland of Islam was in Arabia which was in between the Byzantine Empire and the Sassanid Empire which were remnants of the Roman and Persian Empires. The biggest city in Arabia was Mecca which is the capital for Islam today. The biggest and most known figure for the spread of Islam was Muhammad. Around 610 C.E. Muhammad's revelations began a 20 year period where all his actions and ideas became the Quran the core and teachings of the Islamic faith. The religion centered around Allah which was their representation of god a single being that is all powerful and almighty, and Muhammad was the messenger of God. The Quran was viewed as a corrective to new religions such as Christianity and Jews but also as a pure religion that people could follow. The Pillars of Islam were the 5 requirements of every believer that had to be followed. The first pillar was that there is no god but God and Muhammad is the messenger of God, the second was ritual prayer that was to be done 5 times...

Intro We see the introduction of small civilizations such as Swahili, Ghana,Mali, Songhay,Islam, Chinese, and the Mayans and aztecs. Also civilizations started to interact with each other which led to interblending of cultures and the creation of long distance trade and examples of this are the Silk Road and across rivers and oceans. Chapter 7 Civilizations started to trade objects or resources that were exclusively found in their regions such as silk from asia, salt from africa, and frankincense and myrrh from Arabia. Silk roads were a major resource of trade in Eurasia as it connected people from the agriculture part of the region to the domesticated part of the region for trade. Some of the goods traded from the outer region were agriculture products and manufactured goods and from the inner region was livestock, furs, wool, and amber. Also we saw the use of horses, oxen, and camels to transport tradable items. Silk was the major trade item as every civilization needed silk as i...

Chapter 4 was all about how religions and culture played hand in hand with each other. Religions such as Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism played a big role in history and the making of civilizations in the past. Lots of these different religions were what brought people of certain regions together to make some of the more well known civilizations we learned about in the past. Some such as Christianity and Judaism are still very relevant in the world today. I found the article that we had to read about serving and helping interesting. I never thought of helping as being a method to owe someone and maybe make someone think that they have to reciprocate. So when I want to do something for someone without asking for something in return should i say i would like to serve you instead of I would like to help you? I did not also think that asking to help someone would make them feel inferior or less powerful and could ruin their self confidence.