WORLD HISTORY

Together Again: The reemergance of a unified china: In this section of the reading I learnt about the "Golden Age" of China and women in the society. The reading was interesting and a few things stood out to me, especially in the women's section. In China's golden age political fragmentation didn't remain a problem for them unlike the western Roman Empire. China was able to reunify and was solidified due to the extension of the canal system. China's canals linked northern and southern parts economically and contributed much to its prosperity. China's golden age was a time of great prosperity and developments such as their art and literature. The most interesting part of this section to me was the officials and the selecting of officials. I found it interesting to read that even though there were tests to examine and individual, most positions went to the sons of the privileged. The last shocking thing in this section was in the part about women in the d...

"The Worlds of christendom" The non-muslim regions of Africa witnessed an explosive advance of Christianity during the twentieth century. Europe and North America have been increasingly outnumbered in the census of global Christianity.  "Christian contraction in Asia and Africa"  Europe was the principal center of Chrisitan faith. "Asian christianity" It was in Asia that the decimation of earlier christian communities occurred most completely and most quickly. in both areas, the majority of people turned to Islam voluntarily, attracted perhaps to its aura of success.  The Mongol conquest of China in the thirteenth century offered a brief opportunity for christianitys renewal as the religiously tolerant mongols welcomed Nestorian Christians as well as people of various other faiths.  "byzantine christendom" the contraction of of the christian faith and christian societies in Asia and Africa left Europe and Anatolia, larg...