Chapter 7

It is interesting to learn how these big empires played and important role in our society, but I find more fascinating to learn how these other small empires/cities also played and important role in history. It seems that these other empires/cities were more exclusive, and they were not interested in expanding, but to take care of their own. For these societies bigger did not mean better or more power. Their way of seeing life was very different. For example, they were not influenced by a specific religion, their gods, because they thought that divine power came from nature. I noticed that there are some traditions or customs from the Andean civilization that are still used in these modern times in Peru, and that is the usage of the “shamans”. One thing that I regret is not been able to explore and visit more of the different Andean civilizations that are mentioned in the book WW.