Big era 5
The
Big Five Era
Humans
and Ideas
There
were a couple of major cultural developments that shaped the Big Era
five, but the driving force behind it was humans and ideas. Anytime
you have cultural differences it is because someone has a different
idea than someone else. A major one of these ideas throughout the
population was a difference in religious thinking. There were a
number of different belief systems widespread including Christianity,
Buddhism, and Islam. The other cultural development focused on
consolidating scientific and technological traditions within complex
societies and the new ideas spreading quickly across Afroeurasia.
The
Big Five Era was started around 300 to 400 CE and the ancient world
of Afroeurasia and its large political units came to an end. The next
twelve hundred years of the Big Five Era brought lots of modern
inventions and cultural changes into being. The population of the
time was four million people globally thought to be linked to
innovations in agriculture as well as more people from Europe to
Japan being given land that they could use to grow sustenance. The
larger empires of South America, West Africa and Mesoamerica came
into being. Between 1000 and 1500 CE there was the emergence of the
Indian Ocean focuses on long-distance commerce in Afroeurasia, and
there was a universal message of comfort in allowing the religions to
agree to disagree.
The
Environment, War, and Black Death
The
environment during the Big Five Era was changing rapidly and brought
on drier conditions and declined the productivity of the farmers.
Another issue this caused was plague and disease. The Black Death
spread quickly through Afroeurasia taking out a considerable large
percent of the population. War became a widespread mission with the
fall of the Western Roman Empire and the rise of the Gupta Empire in
India. In Europe the early Russian empire rose to power and the Aztec
and Incan empires grew in America. War also reached new levels of
violence with the use of the crossbow, and catapult among other new
weapons. Despite the war economic growth was still steady from 700 to
1500. Commerce by sea was the most popular way for merchants to
trade. The Big Five Area brought a lot of cultural advances and
events that shaped the history of the world.
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