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Chapter 1:<\/p>\n
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1- What physical and behavioral adaptations and innovations characterized human evolution?<\/p>\n
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2- In the absence of written sources, what have scholar learned about the Paleolithic economy, adaptations to the natural world, and technological innovations?<\/p>\n
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3- In what ways does the Neolithic agricultural economy reveal humans\u2019 increasing intent and ability to manipulate the natural world to their advantage?<\/p>\n
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4- Why did Australian aborigines, in contrast to many of the world\u2019s other peoples, choose not to farm?<\/p>\n
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Chapter 2:<\/p>\n
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1- How do historians explain the rise of cities?<\/p>\n
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2- How and why did the rise of the city lead to more hierarchical society in early Mesopotamia?<\/p>\n
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3- Why did ancient peoples develop writing systems, and what has been the enduring impact of this invention on intellectual expression?<\/p>\n
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4- What were the main features of the first international order, and what developments explain its rise and fall?<\/p>\n
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5- In what ways did the early history of Egypt contrast with that of the ancient states of Southwest Asia?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Chapter 4:<\/p>\n
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1- How did Egyptians and Nubians interact in the two imperial periods that united them politically?<\/p>\n
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2- What kind of power structure did the Assyrians impose on their subjects, and how did it lead to cultural assimilation in the empire?<\/p>\n
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3- What imperial vision and style of the government marked the rise of the vast Persian Empire and allowed it to endure for more than two hundred years?<\/p>\n
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4- To what degree and in what ways did the peoples of Israel and Judah accept or reject the influences of the empires they confronted?<\/p>\n
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Chapter 5:<\/p>\n
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1- What significant political and cultural developments emerged in Greece in the early first millennium B.C.E?<\/p>\n
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2- What cultural innovations appeared in Greece during its Classical age?<\/p>\n
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3- How did Hellenism affect the peoples of Greece, North Africa, and Southwest Asia?<\/p>\n
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4- How did the lives and livelihoods of the peoples of Atlantic Europe differ from those of the Mediterranean peoples?<\/p>\n
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Chapter 6:<\/p>\n
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1- How did the new religious ideas of the last centuries B.C.E. suit the social and political structures of India?<\/p>\n
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2- How did the geographical location and trade relations of the Kushan Empire affect its cultural traditions?<\/p>\n
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3- How did the early Chinese philosophers come to have a long-lasting influence on the intellectual development of the region?<\/p>\n
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4- How did southern Indians developments differ from those in other parts of Asia?<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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