final question

1. How did civilizations along the Fertile Crescent co-exist, including

Mesopotamians, Akkadians, Babylonians, Israelites? Be specific.

2. How did the social hierarchy in Vedic India transform the concept of the ancient

civilization?

3. How did the age of empire help shape the idea of a centralized state of power? Be

specific on which theme to use in response (Government, Economic Trade,

Religion, Society-Architecture, Society-Transportation)?

4. Did the rise of Christianity play a role in the fall of Rome? Why or why not?

5. Why did Hinduism and Buddhism both flourish within India?

6. What were the similarities and differences between Islam and Christianity and

how did this lead to the Crusades, the religious wars of influence?

7. Describe the three dominant Chinese schools of philosophy and the impact each

played in the formation of the empire.

8. How did the Black Death in Europe change people’s perceptions of the religious

society they lived in, both in Christian and Muslim populations?

9. Why did the early Age of Exploration take place and how did it transform the idea

of the civilized world?

10. Why did the Aztec civilization place such an emphasis on human blood and

sacrifice and how did this factor into their own American empire?