Chapter 13-The Worlds of the Fifteenth Century

In this chapter we are able to see how the world of the fifteenth century identified various types of societies that it contained. The Paleolithic values carried out into the classical civilizations, people during the time were hunter-gatherers, agricultural peoples, emerging small states, nomadic or pastoral communities, and established empires had emerged too.  As time went by all of these types of societies were changing than how they had begun. Many societies during the fifteenth century didn't practice hunting and gathering such as Australia up until the Europeans arrived in the late eighteenth century. Those agriculture village societies, avoided themselves from getting into larger incorporations and didn't quite develop their own city or state. These agricultural people normally lived in small village-based communities. The societies these agricultural people had created was one without an oppressive political authority, class inequality, and the solitude of women which wasn't really seen in many of the civilizations. The nomadic peoples were different they didn't gather or hunt and weren't agricultural people either, they were more independent than the rest and they lived in smaller communities amongst the agricultural people, they way the nomadic people would get food was by paying fees and taxes in order to keep pasturing their animals. Overall, we can see how many of these societies changed as time went by because modern societies are totally different than how they worked during the fifteenth century.