Thesis+Statements

1. Compare and contrast the ways civilization developed in India and Mesopotamia. Civilizations in both India and Mesopotamia developed due to agriculture. Agriculture in both cultures was left to peasant class. However, Mesopotamia is one of the fewest civilizations that developed completely on its own without looking at anyone for an example.

2. Compare and contrast the impact of Confucianism in China with Hinduism in India (200 B.C.E to 200 C.E) Both China and India had a system that governed them and so Confucianism and Hinduism justified those systems. However, Confucianism was an ideology about social life whereas, Hinduism was a religion with no single founder.

3. Describe the changes and continuities in the role of women in the transition from a hunter-gathering life style to civilization. Life changed dramatically for women when they came out of the hunter-gathering lifestyle to living in a civilized society when it came to male dominance. In the hunter-gathering times, women were very valuable and were widely recognized however, that all changed when civilization came along because then it seems that they lost their voices and weren't involved as much in society.

4. Compare the development of political structures in Classical China with those in Classical India. In China the emperor and the bureaucrats were in charge whereas In India the Brahmans were. The political structure in China was also not as rigid than that of India, since no one from a lower class could be educated to get up to the high class caste.

5. Describe the different trading patterns between China and India (200 B.C.E to 200 C.E). What factors can explain these differences?

China relied on the silk road but merchants were put in a low class which is surprising since the silk road was successful and India's trade was due to having a wide range of merchants who traveled widely around its surrounding neighborhood countries. India also used the silk road. that dominated overland trade beyond the Himalaya Mountains.