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1 Perid 2: Organizatin and Rerganizatin f Human Scieties, c. 600BCE t c. 600 CE Study Guide by Key Cncepts Key Cncept(s) Answer Cncepts & Relevant Factual Examples in Underline Key Cncept 2.1 The Develpment and Cdificatin f Religius and Cultural Traditins Factids Examples t mentin in essays (Evidence pts) Hw did religins help strengthen plitical, ecnmic, and cultural ties within scieties? I. Cdificatins and further develpments f existing religius traditins prvided a bnd amng the peple and an ethical cde t live by. Hw did religins prmte a sense f unity? What are the characteristics and cre teachings f Judaism? What are the characteristics and cre teachings f Hinduism(s)?

2 II. New belief systems and cultural traditins emerged and spread, ften asserting universal truths. What is a universal religin? Where did universal religins exist by 600 CE? What are the characteristics and cre teachings f Buddhism? Hw and where did Buddhism spread by 600 CE? What are the characteristics and cre teachings f Cnfucianism? What are the characteristics and cre teachings f Daism? What are the characteristics and cre teachings f Christianity?

3 Hw and where did Christianity spread by 600 CE? What are the main characteristics f Grec-Rman philsphy and science? III. Belief systems affected gender rles. Hw did religins affect gender rles in their respective scieties? IV. Other religius and cultural traditins cntinued parallel t the cdified, written belief systems in cre civilizatins. What ther religius and cultural traditins were cmmn by 600 CE? Hw did humans reliance n the natural wrld influence religin? Hw did humans relate t their deceased ancestrs?

4 V. Other religius and cultural traditins cntinued parallel t the cdified, written belief systems in cre civilizatins. Hw did art and culture develp t 600 CE? What literacy wrks influenced later eras? Hw did different scieties architectural styles develp? What examples f syncretism reflect the Classical Era t 600 CE?

5 Key Cncept 2.2 The Develpment f States and Empires Examples t mentin in essays (Evidence pts) What is an empire and what were empires cmmn characteristics during the Classical Era? I. The number and size f imperial scieties grew dramatically by impsing plitical unity n areas where there had previusly been cmpeting states. Hw did the number and size f Classical empires cmpare t the Ancient Era? What were the mst influential f the Classical era empires? II. Empires and states develped new techniques f imperial administratin based, in part, n the success f earlier plitical frm. What techniques did Classical empires create t administer their territries? What new plitical methds were created in rder t rule the larger empires in the Classical era?

6 Hw did imperial gvernments let their ppulatin knw that the gvernment was in charge? What rle did trade play in creating and maintaining empires? III. Unique scial and ecnmic dimensins develped in imperial scieties in Afr-Eurasia and the Americas. What unique scial and ecnmic characteristics existed in empires? What functin did imperial cities perfrm? What scial classes and ccupatins were cmmn in empires? What labr systems prvided the wrkers fr Classical Empires? Describe the gender and family structures f Classical Era empires.

7 IV. The Rman, Han, Persian, Mauryan, and Gupta empires created plitical, cultural, and administrative difficulties that they culd nt manage, which eventually led t their decline, cllapse, and transfrmatin int successr empires r states. What caused Classical Empires t decline, cllapse, and transfrm int smething else? What were the envirnmental and scial weaknesses f Classical Empires? What external weaknesses cntributed t the end f Classical Empires?

8 Key Cncept 2.3 Emergence f Transreginal Netwrks f Cmmunicatin and Exchange Examples t mentin in essays (Evidence pts) Hw did Classical era trade netwrks cmpare t Ancient era netwrks? What frces cntributed t the changes between the tw eras? What was cmmnly traded alng these trade netwrks? I. Land and water rutes became the basis fr trans-reginal trade, cmmunicatin and exchange netwrks in the Eastern Hemisphere, while sme later separate netwrks cnnected the peples and scieties f the Americas. Hw did trade and cmmunicatin netwrks develp by 600 CE? II. New technlgies facilitated lng-distance cmmunicatin and exchange. What technlgies enabled lngdistance verland trade? What technlgies enabled lngdistance maritime trade?

9 III. Alngside the trade in gds, exchanges f peple, technlgy, religius and cultural beliefs, fd crps, dmesticated animals and disease pathgens develped acrss far-flung netwrks f cmmunicatin and exchange. Besides the physical gds, what intangibles als traveled alng trade netwrks? What crps spread alng Classical Era trade netwrks? What effects did diseases have n Classical empires? What was the relatinship between trade netwrks and religins?

Period 3: Regional and Transregional Interactions, c. 600 to c CE Study Guide by Key Concepts

Period 3: Regional and Transregional Interactions, c. 600 to c CE Study Guide by Key Concepts Perid 3: Reginal and Transreginal Interactins, c. 600 t c. 1450 CE Study Guide by Key Cncepts Key Cncept(s) Answ er Key Cncept 3.1 Expansin and Intensificatin f Cmmunicatin and Exchange Netwrks Examples