Compare the rise of the Zhou state to the Neo-Assyrian state and Persian Empire. How did each state attempt to achieve integration of its realm?
How did migrating peoples affect the Afro-Eurasian empires after 1200 BCE? Discuss the origins of these migrating peoples, the states they disrupted, and ways in which they aided cultural integration.
How did peripheral societies in the Aegean and Levant contribute to cultural integration and expansion?
Explain how Vedic rulers achieved cultural integration in South Asia and account for the differences between South Asia's path to cultural integration and that of Mesopotamia and Egypt.
Compare the process of regional integration in East Asia, South Asia, and Southwestern Afro-Eurasia. What encouraged or inhibited such integration? What role did technology play in encouraging integration?