Chapter 5 Reading Guide: The End of the Classical Period
1. How did each of the three classical societies deal with territorial expansion and social
integration?
2. What issues and values did the classical societies stress?
3. What influences did they have on peoples near their borders? Give examples.
4. What was happening in Southeast Asia at the time? Africa? Central Asia?
5. What was happening in Europe and South America?
6. What was the cause of all three classical civilizations’ final decline?
7. What internal problems did China have?
8. What internal problems did India have?
9. What problems did Rome have? How did it fall?
10. Which new religions developed as a result of the classical period? Where did they spread? How
did they spread? What did the new religious map look like?