You will have to pick an Essay question from the List of Essay Questions posted. Write a 12 font, 7-page, double-spaced paper essay. You have to use at least 4 other sources than the class assigned books.
Book used in the course (not necessary, information may come from online sources, cited, not plagiarized)
- Robert Tignor, Worlds Together; Worlds Apart: A History of the World, Vol. 1: Beginnings Through the Fifteenth Century, 2011 (3rdEdition)
Choose one of the following for the essay prompt.
- Compare the significance of bureaucratic and priestly classes in the emergence of Mesopotamia, Egypt and China. What factors helped to empower certain groups?
- Compare and contrast how thinkers in China, South Asia and the Greek city-states began to consider how to improve their societies. How did the various thinkers respond to the particular circumstances of their states, societies and/or cultures?
- Compare how the societies in Mesoamerica, South America, and sub-Saharan Africa were affected by the connections that they had or failed to have with other societies. How did these societies structure their broad social relations?
- Compare and contrast Buddhist and Confucian philosophies. How did each seek to respond to different sets of issues?
