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Commonalities and Variations - Africa, the Americas, and Pacific Oceania  Eurasia was then home to more than 85 percent of the world's people. Africa was 10 percent, the Americas were around 5 percent and Oceania less than 1 percent.  The domestication of animals in the Americas was not as successful because it had fewer animals and it very little pastoral societies that were found in the pockets of the Andes.  Africa lacked wild sheep, goats, chickens, horses, and camels. However, due to how close the continent is to Eurasia, the domesticated animals became available in Africa.  Writing was limited to the mesoamerican region in the Americas.  Ancient Egyptian Civilization was in contact with Crete, Syria, and Mesopotamia and inspired the greeks.  Domesticated camel came from Arabia  Highland Ethiopia sustained very productive agriculture.  Climate conditions spawned numerous diseases carrying insects and parasites, which have long c...

Social mobility in earlier civilizations made it harder for those wishing to move up socioeconomic class. It is really similar today. Only the wealthy and well off could afford the cost of education without taking loans. There are scholarships but no real sponsoring. It is possible to climb up the ladder but it takes more than smarts. In addition, I think it is very smart for civil service exams to be utuilized but again, it would only work if the access of education were equal as well as the time the education started.  Slavery is pretty interesting in certain regions because some slaves had rights to protect them but only so much was enforced because slaves was not really considered a respectable human.