Helen Constanza

Something very interesting that stood out to me from the beginning of chapter 7 was the fact that the trading system is still being used today. The trading system has come a very long way and I am more than positive it will be used forever. Although the trading system is still being used today it is not the same. The trading system is being done completely different and because of that we now do not get disease like people from 500 B.C would. Something very interesting to me was the way that when trades when occurring many people would get diseases , death, and even religion would spread out. Now days, we do not hear much of that. It is not common for diseases to occur. Like religion would not get spread like it would before. The way that things would get trade was also different. Now we only used vehicles and before people would walk or they would use animals or their slaves.  Also, something important is that many people thought that the silk route was one route for trading, but ...

Call To Action day:      On Tuesday, my volunteer work was having different activities with the kids from Notre Dame elementary kids. It was very interesting because I personally thought that the kids would get bored, well good thing that my group didn't. I love serving people its the best thing ever, specially kids because although they have no idea why we are doing it they appreciate it a lot and do not really question why you are doing it. Well of course we have those kids that ask those questions, but we explain to them. I love helping kids simply because at the end of the day I feel like I have impacted their lives one way or the other. Kids appreciate you helping them how to spell a word or how to cut a piece of paper and to me its always about the small things that matter. When I serve a student I hope one day when they grow up they do the same thing for someone else. When Im serving/helping someone I always remember about those people that served/helped me in a w...

After I finished reading chapter five, which is on society and inequality I have come to a conclusion that would honestly rather live in china. I would rather live in china than India and the rest because in china I would not do hard labor work. I would live with my family if we are all crowded, it would honestly not matter to me because family to me means everything. The reasons why I would also rather live in china is because I would get to chose who I want to be married with. I honestly cannot believe the way peoples lives were thousand years ago. People would suffer so much. Peoples live in India was so harsh. The way peoples lives would be a rome was also harsh because of slavery and I would not want to be a slave at all. At the end of this chapter, I honestly felt very blessed because I did not have to go through any of this and the way I live life now is completely different.

Culture and religion is something that we all care about. As I began to read this chapter there are so many things I am learning, but one thing from this chapter that did stuck with me was the way that family life was in China. I did not think that women would have education. But they did because a young women would be better prepare to serve her husband. Although, I like the idea of them having education I hate the fact for what they would think of it before. Women should actually get education for herself to serve herself not someone else. The education for boys was basically the more education they had the more effectively they would control their wives. That honestly sounds horrible, but the more education one has the more someone can manipulate you all just because you will not know they were are talking about or in fact they can scare you in current ways. Throughout the rest of the reading about religion I think that religion is just the way people think and how they would like t...

When I started reading The Histories documents, right away what caught my attention was the fact that Persians followed some custom that I thought it would be different. For example, they had no image of the gods and no temples or altars. When I read that they had no image of the goos, I quickly started asking myself questions and why they did not? As I continued with the reading I learned that they did not believe in the gods to have the same nature as human beings. I wondered why this was their way of thinking and then I remembered that not everyone views something the same way. I learned that the people who wishes to sacrifice brings in the victim to a spot of ground that is pure. The way that they would process this, I thought to myself that it was absolutely weird! and crazy.  A little side note after reading this is that I would actually want to see how they would do all of this like step by step and how to me is something crazy, but not to them. 

When I started reading about the empires and so on, I was very confuse due to that fact that I had heard different things in high school about this. What stuck with me the most was the fact that Persia was embroilment with the greeks. The Persians in taking over Lydia had come into contact with the greeks colonies in Asia Minor. Throughout this reading I had several questions, that I did not quite catch. While the civilization of the Greeks and Persians collide why where the other two empires taking shape. The two empires were Rome and Chinas Imperial state on the far eastern end? What I did find really interesting was the way that rome started, it starts out so small. I would honestly like to know more of how they got into power. Sorry this is so unorganized, it was really confusing to get all my thoughts together! Thank You for reading! :)