Chapter Eight Continuation: An American Network: Commerce and Connection in the Western Hemisphere

In this section of the chapter something that they talked about was that the transcontinental interactions within the American web were more modest than those of the Afro-Eurasian hemisphere. Also the most intense areas of exchange and communication occurred within the Mississippi valley, Mesoamerican, and Andean regions. Also another thing that got my attention was that European explorers and travelers along the Amazon and Orinoco rivers of South America reported active networks of exchange that may well have operated for many centuries. This got my attention because it made me think that maybe the day we have that everything started exchanging are the the right ones. I say this because like I said before this explorers and travelers found something else.

Chapter Eight Continuation: Sand Roads: Exchange across the Sahara

Something that this section of the chapter was about and got my attention was that although the sparse populations of the desert were largely pastoral and nomadic, farther south lived agricultural people's. Those people grew a variety of crops, produced their own textiles, and metal products, and mined a considerable amount of gold. Another thing that got my attention was that the agriculture regions of sub-Saharan Africa are normally divided into two ecological zones. This got my attention because I got to learned what were the two ecological zones and what they did.

Chapter Eight Continuation: Sea Roads: Exchange across the Indian Ocean

While reading this section of the chapter something that got my attention while reading it was the economic exchange in the Indian Ocean. This got my attention because I got to learn the regions everything was happening in. The regions that this exchanges where happening were Mediterranean basin, East Africa, Arabia, India, Southeast Asia, and China. Another thing that got my attention was the products contributed to India Ocean commerce. Some of the products were ceramics, glassware, ivory, gold, frankincense, grain, ivory, tin, silk, and much more. Those things got my attention because now I know how everything got to be exchange and share with other regions. 

Chapter Eight Continuation: Silk Roads: Exchange across Eurasia

Something that this chapter talked about was that the Eurasian landmass has long been home to the majority of humankind as well as to the world's most productive agriculture, largest civilizations, and greatest concentration of pastoral people. Another thing that this section talked about was about the economic exchange along the Silk Roads. When the book was talking about this it told us the region and the product contributed to Silk Road commerce. This got my attention because I got to see what things were the once contributing. Another thing that got my attention while reading this section was Buddhism spread across the silk roads from India to Center Asia, China, and beyond. This was something that this section was about.

Chapter Eight: Commerce and Culture

This section talked about what the chapter was going to be about. It gave us a short story about camels. It told us how the people will used the for. Another thing that got my attention while reading this was that long-distance trade also enabled elite groups in society to distinguish themselves from commoners by acquiring prestigious goods from a distance. This got my attention because it made me see that the people were smart enough to use there camels to transfer there belonging. 

Chapter Seven Continuation: North America in the Classical Era: From Chaco to Cahokia

This section of the chapter is the last one. Something that this section talked about and got my attention was about how the people used to lived. This got my attention because of all the things they will used to creat there houses. Also another thing that got my attention was how the groups that were divided made themselves get known. Well only two did and the other one didn't. The two that got known well were the Mesoamerican and the Andean regions. This was what this part of the section was about.

Chapter Seven Continuation: Civilization of the Andes

This section was about civilization. Some of the regions that this section talked about was about the Chavin and the Moche. It explain to us how they used to work and how everything started with them. Another thing that they talked about is how they both used to work with each other. What am trying to say by this is that they both were involved with each other. Another thing that this section talks about is about there stuff. What I mean is that they book told us how they started creating things that we now have in this century. That is what this section of the book that's about.