why does change happen during periods of economic or political stress?

during times of econimic, socail, and political stress, big changes need to be made. if everything is going fine, than everyone is happy, and noone needs to change anything. during the end of the Qin dynasty, the peasants and merchants were unhappy because of the strict leagalist laws and punishments. Therefore, when the emperor Shi Huangdi died, the peasants revolted and formed a new, more peaceful dynasty, the Han dynasty. The Han dynasties laws were much less strict and much more in line with confucious thought. They had zoos, universaties, and womans rights.
In modern times our financail market is in a crisis. Both presedentail canidates are promising change because our economy is doing so bad. because of the financail crisis America has taken up quick ways to get the market back on it's feet overnight. We have set up a huge bail out fund.

was population growth the most significant development of the classical period. true or false?

false. Although population growth seemed important, it was only the effect of all of the other things happening in the classical period. Humans decided to farm in large quantities. on farm would produce alot of one thing. They would then trade it for what they needed. They had horses and other animals to do the hard parts of their work, and had metal tools to help them. This system allowed for a large population growth spurt. if they were nomads following animals, than this large population would not have been possible. Because they were never on the move, their houses were perminent and very livable. their were many great trade routes such as the silk road, mediteranean sea routes, and the Greek roads. These trade routes alowed for the people to get luxuries that they wanted. These things all helped the population grow, but the growth itself wasn't important. The only way that it affected anyone was bad. because they were living very close to animals and very close to each other, diseases spread more quickly. Large cities led to deforestation and pollution. If the farmers get lazy, food could run out. The population growth was hardly impoertant, and if it was, it was only important in bad ways.

There is only one major accomplishment that took place during the 1500 year long classical period. This is the formation of large successful civilations. These large civilations were in China, India, the Mediteraniean, and the Middle East. they acheived this by uniting states, tribes, and nomadic groups. Silk was traded from East Asia to the Mediteranean, but other than that, there wasn't much communication or trade between empires. Sometimes civilations would attempt to conquer other civilations, such as Alexander the great. This caused two cultures coming directly together. The classical period started around 1000 bce probably because of the discovery of iron, which could be used to make stronger tools and weapons. Classical civilations were much more powerful than the civilations preceding them. They were larger in size, had better economies, and more political power. Because communication was hard and direct contact was rare, each civilation had it's own socail structure, religion political system, sience and art. Although the classical period only really applied to china, india, the mediteranean, and the middle east, their civilations affected the entire world. The Greeks made scientific breakthroughs that were later built on by other civilations. They also traded with parts of Africa. india traded with many parts of the world, extending all the way to Southeast Asia. All of the Classical civilations developed in art, politics, and philosophy.

isaac's awnser to yalis question

there are many different reasons and ideas of why white Europeans colonized Africa, America, and Australia, instead of the other way around. one reason was technology advances, like the discovery and production of metals like bronze and steel. these were used to make tools and weapons. There were two factors that were most helpful in europe conquering the rest of the world. to kill the natives, they used guns and germs because they were immune to many diseases that the natives weren't immune to. they also had a strong government that they could impose on whoever they were colonizing. locations are also important. cities made near a river or water source were more likely to become powerful than one in the mountains or the desert. europe has more rivers, and a overall more varied climate than the rest of the world.