A History of World Societies:
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A History of World Societies Value
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Chapter Chronology

Review and Explore

Make Connections

Analyze the larger developments and continuities within and across chapters.

  1. Question

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

  2. Question

    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?
    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

    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?
    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?