Blog #5

Chapter three discuses the empires and civilization in North Africa and Eurasia where they had systems to organize its society like a political system and culture values. The features that were distinctive in the second wave Eurasion civilization were political, culture and social features. The Chinese political feature is undefined where as for the others they are either under frequent fragmentation or royal absolutism also roman empire. The culture feature has different religion or meaning. The social feature have different class system or hierarchy so like who does what, who has the power and pretty much what they can do or not do. They had a system of imperial spies meaning "eyes and ears of the king" it indicated a imperial presence for the empire. Rome started out as a small and impoverished city/state. With there political system in place the romans were able to start there empire and build on it. The reason why  the romans took so long to build there empire was because the were creating something new unlike china where they created there empire from restoring something old. They both ended up getting a foreign religious tradition. With some apparent regularity they ended up  collapsing, these once strong structures that seemed to have had a good system to help there society ended up falling. They believe they were faced with some problems from the Germanic speaking people. Also rivalry created a instability for both empires and over through the authority.