Thesis+Statements

1. Compare and contrast the ways civilization developed in India and Mesopotamia Mesopotamian civilization developed a complex political, cultural and economical structure just like India, however, they each differed in organization and rigidity.

2. Compare and contrast the impact of Confucianism in China with Hinduism in India (200 B.C.E to 200 C.E.) While Hinduism and Confucianism have similar philosophical beliefs, social order, and their overall view of life, Hinduism achieved this through the Caste System and Confucianism attained this through social order.

3. Describe the changes and continuities in the role of women in the transition from a hunter gathering life style to civilization Women roles continued to be unequal to men in the transition from hunter gathering life style to civilization, however, the change was that women were becoming much more subordinate and had to worship their husbands during the civilization period.

4. Compare the development of political structures in Classical China with those in Classical India. Both classical India and China were patriarchal societies also had cities that were built along major water ways, India the Indus river China the yellow river, and both countries used forced labor to provide them with the help and plantation in their agricultural societies.

5. Describe the different trading patterns China and India (200 B.C.E to 200 C.E.) What factors can explain these differences? Trading patterns in China stressed on internal commerce and important technological innovations as a result of its isolation from the outside world while India's emphasis on trade was far greater then China and had outside influence and European sharing of ideas that expanded its prosperity of its upper class of the caste system.