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Chapter six speaks about how different parts of the world were basically living. For example in the Americas, they did not have animals to work for them whereas in other parts of the world such as Eurasia, they did. Something that really caught my attention, though it had to do with the African Cultural Encounters and Social Variation would be the picture on page 254 of a woman holding her breasts. It's really cool to me that women were seen with power that men didn't have. For instance, women were sculpted holding their breasts because it signified devotion, respect, and the holding of secret knowledge, that to me is extremely amazing because it's something that's not really talked about nowadays.

Chapter five had to do with the roles and society in Eurasia and North Africa. I think it's something that is very important because we look back at the bad times in the US when we had slaves, but we can also look back and date certain eras where there were also slaves and how they were controlled as well. I like the fact that there are different cultures that are being compared as well such as China, India and Rome.

Chapter 4 has to do with early religions and how they came to be. It speaks on how they play a role with culture and civilization. They were all mostly different but also when they were put together, new religions ( or worships) were created. Something that I found interesting was that this book is supposedly based on the perspective of other countries, or cultures, aside the western/ European, yet the Greeks are still mentioned. This really shows, to me, how much of an impact the Greeks (and a big western religions) really did impact the beliefs and ways of other cultures. 

These documents are very well written, they serve a lot of information but, like mentioned in class, we cannot truly know which side is right or not because it is out of the writers perspective. One person might differ and say that that’s not how things happened.