Questions

 =   Task 1     = =    Research each of the following empires, identify their locations and place on the map of Afroeurasia provided. Be sure to label each empire and include all 5 elements of a map where required. Hint: Use different colours for each empire. = =  Geographical    = 1. Which empire lay along the upper Nile River? 2. What state dominated the Altai Mountains, Mongolia, and far western China? 3. Which empire dominated the area from the Iranian plateau to the Tigris-Euphrates Rivers? 4. Which empire surrounded the Mediterranean Sea? 5. What empire united the land between the Yellow and Yangze rivers? 6. What kingdom dominated the area from central Inner Eurasia to northern India? 7. Which empire lay next to the Red Sea? =   Task 2:       = =<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">  Briefly respond to the following questions. Copy these questions into your Cornell Notes and write brief answers. Be sure to put information into your own words otherwise it is plagiarism. = =<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">       = =<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">  Political    = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">1. On whom did the kings of Kushana and Xiongnu often rely on to keep order and collect taxes <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">in local areas? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">2. Which state built pyramids and which one built steles (stone pillars with inscriptions) to  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">honor dead monarchs? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">3. How did the philosophy of Legalism influence the First Qin emperor’s policies? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">4. What two types of governments, in chronological order, did Rome have? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">5. What role did payment of tribute play in the government of the Parthian empire? (Consider  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">the distinction between tribute and taxes.) =<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Religion = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">1. How did Ashoka, leader of the Maurya empire in India, encourage the spread of Buddhism? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">2. What were Zoroaster’s ideas about good and evil? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">3. How did Christianity become the main religion of the Roman empire? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">4. What ideas about life after death are found in Buddhism? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">5. What ideas about life after death are found in Christianity? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">6. What are “universal religions”? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">7. Into which areas did Zoroastrianism spread? =<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">Economy = <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">1. What were the silk roads? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">2. Which society produced the silk for which the silk roads were known? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">3. Which society produced olive oil and wine for export on the silk roads? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">4. How did lateen sails contribute to navigation on the Indian ocean? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">5. Which states built the most effective systems of roads? <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS', cursive;">6. What were, and what role did entrepôts like Funan and Adulis play in Afroeurasian trade?