Zhou control of the North China Plain continued until 256 BCE, and a feudal society developed of landed lords ruling over agrarian serfs. Beginning in the 8th century BCE, a class of scholars called shi began to emerge, who became professional civil servants and court administrators. In the three centuries called the Spring and Autumn period,
the shi very bright to be professional servants
A new identity emerged among the Dorians who migrated into Greece, in which the "Hellenes" imagined themselves to have been the true Greeks, reclaiming their ancestral homelands from barbarians. T
I find it investing that only the hellenes claimed the dorians to be their ancestral homelands
there was additional incentive to find a way to work with the abundant iron ore.
iron was found fast and made to be a fast growing metal
The object of the battle had been control of the Mediterranean coast, which Egypt had lost during the problematic reign of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, who had tried to shift the polytheistic Egyptian religious system
the queen tried getting the coast back which would benefit Egyptians a lot
One of the advantages of bronze for making weapons is that unlike iron and steel, which must be forged by blacksmiths
blacksmiths benefited us in a lot of ways
Wild silkworms, which were abundant in the region, were fed on mulberry leaves and then their cocoons were harvested and boiled to extract silk threads.
its kind of odd that someone new to just boil the cocoons to make silk
By 5,800 years ago, Hierakonpolis had become Egypt's first city, with a local elite that gained control over trade routes to the Red Sea
found it interesting that the elite gained control when it was a tedious job
who benefits and and who bears the costs of any change in history, are some of the most important and interesting things for us to try to understand.
really important because we barely look at who struggles
So, at some point between about ten thousand years ago and about seven thousand years ago, there seems to have been a gradual shift in which some people in relatively abundant regions such as river valleys began first cultivating food plants near their camps of villages, and then in several regions began altering the plants to make them more productive.
before said times what did people do when they needed certain resources and couldn't get them.
The native cultures of the Northeastern woodlands were generally egalitarian. They weren't necessarily peaceful: bands or tribes often fought each other. But they also incorporated captives into their societies, choosing between either killing captives immediately or adopting them as full members of their bands.
I believe its interesting that if they dint kill the people they adopted them how would them chose which member was viable and which member wasn't
The significance of these carts is that they would have enabled people to venture out onto the steppe, carrying larger water supplies in ceramic pots or animal skins than they could carry on foot or horseback.
people back then use to carry the steer and good on their backs which is so interesting to note how long it would take them to reach their destination
In the ancient, prehistoric world, the human population would have been much smaller and may have been much more spread out. It seems reasonable to assume that, as they tend to today,
with the human population being smaller humans wouldn't make that much interaction if they chose to stay within their people.