Part 1- Defiine the followig key terms
Key Terms
Bodhisattva
Dharma
Romanization
Senate
Bantu
Shi'a
Manor
Umma
Equal-field system
Part 2- Section Focus Questions - One paragraph answers
1. How did the geographical location and traderelations of the Kushan Empire affect its culturaltraditions?
2. How did the Roman Empire bringadministrative and cultural unity to the vast territoryit ruled?
3. Why did the ancient cultures of Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific often show similar developments in spite of their isolation from one another?
4. What do their material remains tell us about Pacific Islanders' society and culture?
5. Why did Christianity and Islam achieve theirinitial success in towns and cities rather than in the ruralcountryside?
6.What patterns of political and cultural borrowing characterized the emerging states in East and Southeast Asia?
Part 3- Making Connections Questions - Two paragraph answers
1. How did the cultural innovations in India and China compare with those in Greece of the firstmillennium B.C.E.?
2. How did the world empires of the centuriesfrom 500 B.C.E. to 500 C.E. facilitate the spread ofnew ideas and religions? Compare, for example, theHan and Roman empires.
3. Consider the agricultural techniques and resources of the inhabitants of Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific. What do the similarities and differences reveal about the development of their cultures?
4. In what ways did the spiritual authority of theIslamic ulama differ from that exercised by theChristian popes and bishops?
5. Do you think that the invasions of Germanic people into the Roman Empire had more lasting consequences than the invasions in China by steppe nomad peoples? Why or why not?