Post #1 Second part of the semester.

Chapter 5 reading.10/24/2014

Today in class we learned and talked about China and India, these were part of the reading that we were supposed to read.
In China we talked about how the landowner had a lot of power. There were a certain amount of people that owned all the land. There was someone that tried and changed this, however that person was then assassinated because of the change that they wanted to do. This is very important because there was a lot of inequality that was happening.
In China however their were people that sponsored poor peasants to get a higher education. This is important because they are giving them an opportunity.
We also talked about how people were had to be born into the elite class. It was extremely hard to even be apart of this type of class. The elite class was the one that made all the decisions and had the most power.

It was extremely noticeable that their were classes in China and in India. If was also extremely noticeable who was part of the higher class and who was not.
At the beginning on the chapter i also read that it talked about how the elite had so much power that they can even make their own military and over power the emperor if they wanted to. This is important and interesting because it just shows how much power money and class status can give you. We still sort of have classes today. They are less noticeable but we can all still see them. In the chapter classes were made to keep people in order and to make sure everything worked accordingly. They were also meant to keep the higher people on the top and everybody else below them.
Lets just say if people were to distribute the land that the small percentage of higher people had, people would not know how to run the land, how to work the land, what to make out of the land. This is also a good point on why the small percentage of people controlled a lot of the land. People that did not have land would be confuse on how to run the land, would be confuse on what to do with the land, would be confuse not having that higher person telling them what to do.

Another thing we discussed were slavery, Slavery is probably one of the oldest human practices that have been practiced. I think slavery goes back to the neolithic era, where people started to settle down and that's when they started coming up with the idea that they can just force people to work for them. We have seen all different types of slavery and we have also read and seen how slavery has come back around in the eras.