Week 5

The past 2 weeks of Ap World History was busy and then again it wasn’t. We had fewer homework assignments, but starting now, we have to read a lot each week.

When we were discussing about the Indus Valley civilizations, one thing that interested me was the Rig Veda’s account for creation. The Rig Veda was very poetic in its writing. It was interesting to know that most of the civilization so far in the book incorporated a deity. They all had one for guidance and support. The Maya account for creation, Popul Vuh, is similar to the Genesis’s account to creation. The men in both accounts of creation had to be put to sleep. When they a woke from their sleeps, both had a life long partner. Learning of the Chinese dynasty was best when we were able to talk about their writing. They’re writing style is very different from most other writings. Their writing was very expressive and poetic whether they were talking about protesting the government or talking about brothers.

The one chapter that was the most intriguing was when we were talking about the early Mesoamerican society. How did they create a calendar that is so accurate with Earth’s rotation around the Sun. The book mentions that their calendar was only a few minutes off on the calculations of the earths rotation. How did they build their temples and monuments with such great architectural detail? Many of us in modern times would not be able to do many of the things the Mesoamerican civilizations did regarding astronomy and architecture without the proper training. These people had no training at all.

All the civilizations so far have been patriarchal. It would very interesting to come across a civilizations where the women dominated the men. That would be very different, but I highly doubt that is going to happen. I am looking forward to learn more about the Classical period in history. It looks more interesting.

Two weeks of Ap world history has passed and i have learned to like it a little more everyday. Its just simply fun for me to learn about different cultures. My favorite part about Ap world history so far is doing the fish bowl. During the fishbowl, im able to gain access to other students mind and see how they are thinking whether it be in agreeing in what i think or opposing to my ideas. It gives me a chance to catch different things that i might have missed in my reading.

For the first two weeks, discussing how the hunter gatherers slowly transitioned into being a agricultural society was quit interesting. They first had to go through so many hardships at first to in the end have a respectable life style, one higher than those of the HG. Because they were less worried about their survival, they were able to have more luxuries.

Learning about the Law Code of Hammurabi was very interesting in the sense of knowing how the people back them lived and. I saw that they had higher expectations of each others property. For example, if a man stole, he probably ended up dead. What was different between Hammurabi’s law and our law was pretty much equality. Women did not really gain the respect that they really deserved in some situations as they would in today’s situations. Women obviously did not have a high position in society as the men did. The laws back then evidently were abided by because the consequences for each rule was pretty much death. They enforced it by using psychological terrorizing the people. In the our time, we just put people in prison for a certain amount of time. In a way they both have pros and cons. We should not just take away a life because of a transgression but must apply forgiveness, evident in today’s justice. Back then they probably had a lower crime rate, but then again we must have respect for all life.

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