Ch. 6's Big Question: “The particular cultures and societies of Africa, the Americas, and Pacific Oceania discussed in this chapter developed largely in isolation.” What evidence would support this statement, and what might challenge it?

The evidence might be continental comparisons through "the particular cultures and societies of Africa, the Americas, and Pacific Oceania." This will mainly be in Ch. 6. According to continental comparisons, "at the broadest, human cultures evolved in quite similar fashion around the world" (Strayer, 230). This is the part of human migration that people might think about the planet of the Earth throughout Eurasia, Australia, the Americas, and Pacific Oceania. This idea is called the "vast movement of humankind" (Strayer, 230). This kind of society may remain, just as "gathering, hunting, and fishing long remained the sole basis for sustaining life and society" (Strayer, 230).

I might challenge with continental comparisons would be the world's human population that "was then distributed very unevenly across the three giant continents" (Strayer, 230). That's the problem, based on how many people are survived in the world. According to the Snapshot on page 232 of the title Continental Population in the Second-Wave Era and Beyond in Strayer textbook, "Eurasia was then home to more than 85 percent of the world’s people, Africa about 10 percent, the Americas around 5 percent, and Oceania less than 1 percent" (Strayer, 230). This is unevenness throughout population distribution as it is a pattern that world historians mostly focus on only the continent of Eurasia. That's the reason why I must challenge the world's human population.

Overall, continental comparisons of Eurasia, Australia, the Americas, and Pacific Oceania are always supported and challenged throughout the quote "the particular cultures and societies of Africa, the Americas, and Pacific Oceania."