Roman Roads: the purpose of the roman roads was to move their armies and trade products as well as communicate.
Persian roads: the royal road was built to facilitate fast communication throughout the large empire.
Incan roads: quick and reliable routes for civilian/military connections on foot. Purpose to boost communication, also aided caravans.
I think the roman roads were the best because they took the initial developments of the Incan roads and improved them for the better.
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
Pros and Cons to Griot Methods of Preserving History
Some pros to the way the griots spread their knowledge were:
•That it had sentimental value to both the people teaching and learning perhaps having a greater influence to its audience.
•it spread to a great range of people of different ages.
•Each family had a separate piece of culture that was original to them.
Some cons to the griots way of spreading knowledge were
•There was the possibility of the information getting lost in translation (huge game of telephone)
•If someone in the family were to pass away a piece of the history could vanish forever.
•the information could be misinterpreted or falsely understood because of certain people's opinions.
I think the griots way of preserving knowledge was very personalized and sentimental, which was good, but i still prefer the textbook way of learning. I feel like it is to easy for nformation to get changed around or for information to just suddenly vanish. The textbook provides permanent knowledge since it is written down, and people can interpret what they want from it and not have to memorize every single detail of their families history. I think what the griots did made them unique, but I cannot see it catching on to modern day society.
•That it had sentimental value to both the people teaching and learning perhaps having a greater influence to its audience.
•it spread to a great range of people of different ages.
•Each family had a separate piece of culture that was original to them.
Some cons to the griots way of spreading knowledge were
•There was the possibility of the information getting lost in translation (huge game of telephone)
•If someone in the family were to pass away a piece of the history could vanish forever.
•the information could be misinterpreted or falsely understood because of certain people's opinions.
I think the griots way of preserving knowledge was very personalized and sentimental, which was good, but i still prefer the textbook way of learning. I feel like it is to easy for nformation to get changed around or for information to just suddenly vanish. The textbook provides permanent knowledge since it is written down, and people can interpret what they want from it and not have to memorize every single detail of their families history. I think what the griots did made them unique, but I cannot see it catching on to modern day society.
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