Study Guide

Unit II Goal:  Students will be able to explain at least three of the following thematic questions, backing up generalizations with analysis of specific examples and/or primary sources.

Interaction Between Humans and the Environment:  Compare how geographic factors affected unification in Greece, Rome and China.

Development and Interaction of Cultures: How did religion influence other aspects of culture in Greece and the Gupta Empire in India?

State-Building, Expansion, and Conflict: Compare the ways two of these leaders administered their empires: Alexander the Great, Augustus Caesar, and Ashoka Maurya.

State-Building, Expansion, and Conflict: Analyze the similarities and differences between the Roman Empire and Han Dynasty.

Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems: Explain how the Silk Roads were connected to sea-based trade routes in the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.

Development and Transformation of Social Structures: How Did the Indian caste system compare with the social hierarchy in Rome?