What is the significance of the Paleolithic era in world history? Hunters and Gathers.
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• What was revolutionary about the Neolithic Revolution?
• What different kinds of societies emerged out of the Neolithic Revolution?
• Was the Neolithic Revolution inevitable? Why did it occur so l
• What distinguished civilizations from other human societies?
• In the development of the First Civilizations, what was gained for humankind, and what was lost?
• Hammurabi’s Code• Patriarchy• Cuneiform
• What common features do Classical Chinese Civilizations and Classical Indian Civilizations share?
• What different features do Classical Chinese Civilizations and Classical Indian Civilizations have?
• Qin Shihuangdi• Han dynasty• Ashoka• Mauryan dynasty• Gupta dynasty• Alexander the Great• pax Romana
• “Religion is a double-edge sword, both supporting and undermining political authority and social elites.” How would you support both sides of this statement?
• What motivated and sustained the long-distance commerce of the Silk Roads, Sea Roads and Sand Roads?
• In what ways did commercial exchange foster other changes?
• In what ways did the Tang and Son resemble the classical Han dynasty period, and in what ways had China changed?
• How did China influence East Asia from 600C.E. to 1450?
• Tribute system• Song dynasty economic revolution• Bushido• Silla dynasty
• How did the histories of the Byzantine Empire and Western Europe differ from 600C.E. to 1450?
• Constaninople • Eastern Orthodox • Kievan Rus• Charlemagne• Crusades
• What distinguished the first centuries of Islamic history form the early history of Christianity and Buddhism?
• How led to the immense religious and political/military success of Islam in its early centuries?
• Prior to the Mongols, in what ways had pastoral peoples been significant in world history?
• In what ways did the Mongol empire resemble other empires, and in what ways did it differ form them? Why did it last a relatively short time?