Foundations Practice Essays
• Compare and contrast any of the following two
religions or philosophical systems for gender
systems and social hierarchies.
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Hinduism
Confucianism
Buddhism
Hellenic philosophies
Christianity
Generalized polytheistic religions including
shamanism
• Trace the changes and continuities in state
structures and political culture from the
beginnings of ancient civilization to the end of
the Classical period in any one of the following
regions:
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Southwest Asia
South Asia
East Asia
Mediterranean
Sub-Saharan Africa
• Analyze the cultural and political changes
and continuities in ONE of the following
civilizations during the last centuries of the
classical era.
– Chinese, 100 C.E. to 600 C.E.
– Roman, 100 C.E. to 600 C.E.
– Indian, 300 C.E. to 600 C.E.
• Compare and contrast the development of
institutions and traditions (political, social,
economic, or intellectual) in any two of these
classical civilizations:
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China
India
Greece
Rome
Mesoamerica
Andes
• Compare any two of the interregional
trading systems.
– Mesoamerica
– Mediterranean
– Southwest Asia
– South Asia
– East Asia
• Compare and contrast the collapse of
classical civilization in the Mediterranean
and South and East Asia; determine why
the collapse was more severe in the
Mediterranean than these other two
regions.