Chapter 6

In the beginning of this chapter, it talks about the world and the population back then and things like that. In one paragraph, the book reads that,"The world's human population was then distributed very unevenly across the three giant continents, as the snapshot on page 264 indicates. If these estimates are even reasonably accurate, then during the second-wave ear Eurasia was home to more than 80 percent of the worlds people, Africa about 11 percent, and the Americas between 5 and 7 percent." After reading this statement, I wondered why all these people started to move. I also saw that they were moving up Africa to Eurasia and started making the long voyage to the Americas. Despite everyone trying to get out of Africa and being nomadic, there are some people who stayed. I give props to those people who stayed because they did a great job with their civilization. Of course, Im talking about the Egyptian civilization that was built along the Nile river. The Egyptians did a good job in picking that river to settle along and learning more and more about it. The people who did not stay in Egypt and traveled across Africa also found refuge in various places. One of those place is along the Niger River. I like how the little "city states" along the Niger River remained how they were founded. They did not go under Imperialism and did not falter under stronger forces. I really respect that. All of these civilizations like the Nile, Niger, Andes, and the civilizations in the Americas have so much history. All of these civilizations may have similar ideas, but no one idea is the same as another. Thats what I find so interesting.