History Section 02 Class Notes: August 17, 2016

• Charcoal Poem Related Notes
• Where and When Was It From?
• 18th Century China
• China has the Ability to Easily Unify
• Has a strong bureaucratic government
• Government Officials
• They were known as Courtiers
• What Does The Government Do?
• Redistribute Wealth
• What Is the Government?
• A system put in place when a society can financially support itself, in which individuals can take specialized roles, and the system can redistribute wealth across specializations.
• Fabric
• Is Incredibly Expensive, Throughout History
• Silk is produced in China
• Until the Middle-Ages, China was the only source of silk in the world.
• What is Damask?
• A different way of weaving fabric.
• Who Invented the Cotton Gin?
• The Chinese
• Who Produced The Most Cotton In That Era?
• India
• Middle Eastern God's Country Poem Notes
• Religion They Practiced
• Zoroastrianism
• What They Developed
• Commercialism
• Joint Stock Companies
• Checks
• Capitalism
• They were rather commercial, and many nations are commercial.
• Capitalism is not necessarily western.
• God's Love Poem Notes
• Where Was It From?
• Persia
• Who Wrote It?
• Rumi
• Religion They Practiced?
• Sufi
• What Was it About?
• God's Love, and Connecting People Together With Love and Belief In God.
• Draft Poem Notes
• When Was It Written?
• 600 BCE
• What Was It About?
• The Draft and Chariots
• Where Was It Written?
• China
• Who Were Unified?
• China
• Who Were Not Unified?
• Europe
• Who Were Very Open?
• The Middle East
• Who Were Anti-Semitic?
• Europe