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Chapter 4: First Empires and Common Cultures in Afro-Eurasia 1250-325 BCE
Review the chapter and answer the question. Use your text book (eBook)and a basic internet search to complete the assignment. Cite all sources, including your textbook (eBook).
Answer the following "Thinking About Global Connections." listed on page 151 of your eBook.
Thinking about Exchange Networks and the Formation of Empires: While this chapter focuses on the formation of empires, the majority of the world's people lived outside or on the fringes of these empires.
The Sea Peoples, after disrupting the Hittites, Greeks, and Egyptians, settled down on the coast of Southwest Asia and became the Philistines; the Phoenicians expanded their trade across the Mediterranean; the Greeks effectively resisted Persian authority; and Jewish Israelites founded a kingdom centered on monotheism.
Which had the most significant impact on human history: the centralized empires or the peoples on the fringes and beyond? Explain why. Provide supportive details/evidence.
Chapter 6: Shrinking the Afro-Eurasian World, 350-100 BCE
Review the chapter and answer the question. Use your text book (eBook) and a basic internet search to complete the assignment. Cite all sources, including your textbook (eBook).
Answer the following "Study Question," listed on page 227 of your eBook.
Question #5-To what extent were the Silk Roads a new development in this period 350 BCE -100 CE? What role did caravan cities and, later, the Kushans play in the development of these exchange routes? What new developments in interregional exchange do texts like the Periplus demonstrate? Explain why. Provide supportive details/evidence.
Chapter 7: Han Dynasty China and Imperial Rom, 300 BCE-1000 BCE
Review the chapter and answer the question. Use your text book (eBook) and a basic internet search to complete the assignment. Cite all sources, including your textbook (eBook).
On page 263 of your eBook, read the Competing Perspectives "Maintaining Political and Domestic Order" and complete the questions for analysis.
1. According to these texts, what are the characteristics of a good ruler? What are the traits of a good husband? A good wife?
2. According to these texts, what brings political and domestic harmony? What brings discord?
3. What, from these texts, suggests that they offer an elite, primarily male, perspective? To what extent do the ideas presented in these texts extend beyond elite men to women, children, and non-elites?
4. What do these texts suggest about the similarities and differences in ideas about political and domestic harmony in Han China and late republican and imperial Rome?
Chapter 9: New Empires and Common Cultures, 600-1000 CE
Review the chapter and answer the question. Use your text book (eBook) and a basic internet search to complete the assignment. Cite all sources, including your textbook (eBook).
On pages 336-337 of your eBook, read the Competing Perspectives "Women, Faith, and Empire" and complete the questions for analysis.
1. What are some of the rules having to do with women in these texts? What do the rules appear to govern: women's behavior or men's behavior with respect to women? Why might that distinction matter when it comes to women's choices?
2. What is the punishment for breaking these rules, and what is the higher authority (implied or stated) to which these rules appeal?
3. How do these rules concerning women fit your understanding of the Abbasid, Christian, and Tang worlds, based on your reading of this chapter? How do they challenge your impression of women in this historical context?
Chapter 10: Becoming "The World," 1000-1300 CE
Review the chapter and answer the question. Use your text book (eBook) and a basic internet search to complete the assignment. Cite all sources, including your textbook (eBook).
Answer the following study questions listed on page 375 of your eBook.
1. How did technological advances, such as the magnetic needle compass, junks, and dhows, fuel the maritime revolution in 1000-1300? Explain why. Provide supportive details/evidence.