Blog 3: Commerce & Religion

 It was really interesting to find that commerce began to be an important role in the transportation of goods, and everywhere in the world people where finding their ways to transport. The Caribbean’s and the Maya used canoes, where the canoes were to sustain approximately fifty people. The Andean Inca Empire utilized a state run operation where caravans of human porters and llamas were used to transport goods across roads and bridges of the empire. Something that really caught my attention was that messengers in the Inca were able to walk as much as 150 miles a day, showing how active and efficient these transporters were.

The story of Yao Hong was amusing, I learned that she became a Christian due to the unfaithful acts of her husband. The reason she became a Christian was because she was able to find the support and sense of family she needed. Yao Hong turned to Christianity because they offered her the support she needed in the time of a crisis. She truly believed in Christianity and even prayed for China after observing that God blesses countries like the U.S and England with their large and rich churches. I think this story is a juxtaposition of how religion begins to expand elsewhere and how people are involved in the transition of the religion. You can see diversity in religion through out the world and no certain part of the world you have every single person that only believes in one particular belief or religion.

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