Make Connections

Analyze the larger developments and continuities within and across chapters.

  1. Question

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    Which features of early China’s history seem closest to developments in other early civilizations, such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, and India?

  2. Question

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    Why do we refer to the ideas developed in India in the second half of the first millennium B.C.E. as religion and those developed in China as philosophy? Is this a useful distinction? Why or why not?

  3. Question

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    How does the political history of China from 500 B.C.E. to 250 B.C.E. help us understand the emergence of philosophies as different as Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism?