Blog #2-Biggest change of Classical Period

I believe that the biggest changed that occurred during the classical period was the start of successful conquests for large empires. Preceding the Classical Period there had been empires but no empire before the Classical Period had been as large and dominant as those of this time. These establishments of large and successful empires are what lead to all the other changes occurring in the Classical Period. For example large regions began successful networks of trade between each other, such as the trading of silk between Asia and the Mediterranean. Another change the unification of large regions brought on was Syncretism. For example Alexander the Great’s conquest brought India and the Mediterranean together in trade. A statue sculpted by an Indian sculptor of Buddha was found sculpted clothed in Greek style clothes. Although there was not a large technological breakthrough in this period, the unification of large regions brought with it a large social breakthrough between people.