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Beck, Roger B. <i>World History: Patterns of Interaction</i>. Evanston, IL: McDougal Littell, 2005. Print.
The empires of Africa, also called classical African kingdoms, are refer to the precolonial kingdoms of the african people and communities. Hunting-gathering societies in Africa, Forest Dwellers, live in small groups of 10 to 100 members, all whom are related. Different from the men who do all the hunting, killing animals such as small antelope called duikers, the woman do all of the gathering.
In the fifth century, German invaders overran the western half of the Roman Empire. Learning declined, they lost a common language and the concept of Government changed. The invasions weren't done. In 846, the vikings invaded from the north, along with Magyars and Muslims who attacked from the East and South. No one felt safe in Europe anymore. Life was harsh, woman began being mistreated, and recovery was slow.
Eurocentrism is a term invented in the 1980's referring to the notion of European exceptionalism, a worldview centered on Western civilization, as it has developed during the height of the european colonial empires since the early modern period. The social science disciplines were in fact overwhelming in Germany, France, Italy, Great Britain, and the U.S.A. They call it Eurocentrism because they used it a long time ago in Europe.
The Empire and Kingdoms of East Asia
By the end of Bytzantine’s time as King, he had conquered 88 empires. Of the 88 empires, 29 died violently, and 13 abandoned the throne to live in monasteries. Most Byzantines spoke Greek.
The kingdom of East Asia had been very dependent on trade with the europeans along the silk road, along with the trade the europeans needed with the kingdoms of east Asia. Traders would travel in and out lands to get spices, and other trade items that the europeans needed that couldn't be grown or manufactured in the western world.
The Eastern world, was very changed as World leaders, and came and invaded the eastern world, like Alexander the Great, in the year, 336-323 BC when Alexander conqured the eastern lands, of Persia, Egypt, Syria, and many other lands. (Alexander had also conqured Mesopotmia, Bactria, and the Punjab, in the far east.)
Western Europe
Medieval Europeans developed new methods of trade and new systems of finance and commerce. Western Europe the time period from 800 to 1500 is known as the Age of Faith. Some priests were nearly illiterate and could barely read their prayers. Many bishops cared more about positions in feudal lords than of duties to be spiritual leaders. They developed a new spirit in the church and access to more money of the growing wealth of towns and from trade helped the fuel the building of churches in several European countries.
We found the book to be eurocentric for multiple reasons. One being, two out of the five civilizations were focused on Europe, spliting the whole sections of Europe into medieval times, the times of the new civilized, cultured Europe, the ruling monarchs of Europe, and the transition into the French war and the rule of Napoleon. The other civilizations only got one chapter dedicated to them. The textbook also focused on the images of the european culture, and the famous people who lived there. The cover of the text book and the inner table of contents, try to portray a “balanced” cover, trying to take it, looking like a well uniformed, and evenly spread book, and putting more images on Rome, England, and France vs. a very small amount of images of African, Asian, Muslim, and American imagery.