Chapter5

Chapter five addressed many topics/issues such as: societies in China, the class and caste system in India, comparing slavery and patriarchies in different societies, arguing with Solomon and Buddha, the Romans vs. the Greeks... However I enjoyed reading about the Tang dynasty, specifically the roles of the women and what they brought to the two different societies. During the time of the Tang dynasty elite women were allowed to handle the legal and business affairs on their own, ride horses + play polo, and the daughters were even able to inherit property from her family of birth. This is something that wasn't common during those times and women were normally treated unfair. Even more so at one point the Tang dynasty had a female empress, Empress Wu. She was the only women to ever rule China and before she became an empress she was a high-ranked concubine in the imperial court. Even though her reign was brief, it was a nice "change of scenery" (as far as the women go) after reading the rest of the sections from chapter 5.