by Philip Schmiege
Today in class, we discussed the different areas of the world and how they overcame, or didn’t overcome isolation. We first looked at the map and went through each of the places, Mesoamerica, North America, Greenland, Khmer Kingdom, Chola Kingodm, Ethiopia, Japan, and Europe, and said wheither or not they overcame their isolation by expanding and interacting a lot with ohter cutures. Genreally it turned out that the civilization in the Americas did not over come isolation while the civilizations in Asia and Africa and Europe did. We also talked about the spread of Hinduism, and Buddhism, the effects of urbaniztion, and the effects of these new links between different peoples; one such effect was specialization.
