By Philip Schmiege
Today in class we went over all of the questions in chapter 4. We discussed the features of the river vallies, and how those 5 features were spread in 3 different ways over Eurasia, especially the Hittite, Mycenean, Cretian, Harappan, Egytian, and Chinese civilizations. Aside form these features and how they spread, we also talked about how the environment influenced the societies and even helped some of them collapse. That a society needs to work in balance with nature, and with a changing environment they will either die, change, or survive. After going though the questions, we discussed how this period was a climacteric, and not a revolution.
