Consider the following questions:
What benefits do you perceive from the Axial Age ideas on religion, science, medicine and political thought? How do the ideas of the great sages of the Axial Age still influence the way we think today? Why do you think the Axial Age ideas infused optimism?
What kind of networks, schools, patron influence, cross-cultural contacts and communication help spread axial age ideas?
What were the advantages and disadvantages of sea routes versus land routes for commerce and communication in the ancient world?
What common factors contributed to the fall of the empires Persia, Rome, and Han?