I. Compare and Contrast the cultural development of groups in at least two of the following: Ancient Near East, Africa, India, China, and the Mediterranean. In your answer consider why there was unique religious, economic, and cultural development in each region. How did the region change over time?
I. Compare and Contrast the process of state building in at least three global regions. How have different leaders or groups of people attempted to build a stable society and ensure some kind of order?
II. Compare and Contrast the relationship between religious and sacred authority, legitimate government or coercive authority, and social order/values in two ancient contexts.
III. How did contact, violent or otherwise, between different groups of people lead to the spread of ideas and innovations in the ancient world? In what sense have ideas and innovations been passed across time, from older societies to more recent ones?