Major comparisons and snapshots
jessmeyer 09 May 2008 19:12
- Compare major religious and philosophical systems including some underlying similarities in cementing a social hierarchy, e.g., Hinduism contrasted with Confucianism
- Compare the role of women in different belief systems – Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism and Hinduism
- Understand how and why the collapse of empire was more severe in western Europe than it was in the eastern Mediterranean or in China
- Compare the caste system to other systems of social inequality devised by early and Classical civilizations, including slavery
- Compare societies that include cities with pastoral and nomadic societies
- Compare the development of traditions and institutions in major civilizations, e.g., Indian, Chinese, and Greek/Roman
- Describe interregional trading systems, e.g. the Indian Ocean trade & Silk Roads
- Compare the political and social structures of two early civilizations, using any two of the following: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, Shang dynasty, and Mesoamerica and Andean South America
- Analyze the role of technologies in the growth of large state structures