Question 1

What difference did Africa's connections to Asia make in its development in this period as compared to American developments?
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Question 2

How did new civilizations arise in Africa and the Americas from 1000 to 500 B.C.E.? What were their similarities and differences?

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Question 3

In addition to the advantages Eurasian civilizations gained from greater connections to each other, what dangers or challenges did greater connectivity pose for them? Conversely, what advantages did American and African civilizations gain from relative isolation?

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Question 4

In what ways did both the religious concepts of the Ganges Valley and the philosophies of Warring States China attempt to address problems of social and political stability?

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Question 5

Explain why most historians consider the era around 1000 B.C.E. to have been both destructive and transformative for most major world civilizations. Your answer should draw on examples from Greece, India, Mesopotamia and China.

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Question 6

What are two possible reasons for the differences in development that may be seen in Eurasia as compared with Africa and the Americas? What is significant about these differences in development?

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Question 7

What new types of technology were developed by the peoples of Africa from 1000-500 B.C.E., and what effects did these developments have on their lives?

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Question 8

How did the interplay of cultures in the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean basins in the first millennium B.C.E. affect the development of civilization in those areas? How did the isolation characteristic of cultures in the Americas affect the development of civilizations there?

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Question 9

What are the two most significant areas of cultural development that arose across Eurasia during the period from 1000 to 500 B.C.E.? What advantages do you think those developments provided to those civilizations?

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Question 10

How did the reemergence of civilization in China compare with the new societies that developed in the Greek world?

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Question 11

How does the revival of culture and society in the Ganges Valley and in Sri Lanka compare with the active spread of Greek culture through colonization? Discuss how it may be possible that some civilizations emerged spontaneously while others depended on active colonization.

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Question 12

Compare the Phoenicians and Greeks with the Assyrians and Babylonians. What did scattered colonizing peoples gain compared to imperial states? What did they give up in exchange?

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Question 13

What new types of technology were developed by the peoples of North America from
1000-500 B.C.E., and what effects did these developments have on their lives?

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