History discussion posts

Answers: Describe the evolutionary process through which Homo Sapiens emerged. Was it a linear progression? Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of agricultural production versus nomadic foraging. How were agricultural or pastoral communities different from those of hunters and gatherers? Look a...

Answers: Why were river basins so conducive to the development of early cities? How were these cities different from settlements in the Americas and Sub-Saharan Africa? Discuss the nature of trade, religion, politics, family, social class, and literacy in early Mesopotamian cities. Read the four pri...

Answers: Identify shared characteristics of European, Anatolian, and Aegean settlements between 5000 and 2000 BCE. How did settlements in these regions on the margins differ from urban settlements in river basins? Explain East Asia's relative physical isolation from other Afro-Eurasian societies du...

Answers: Explain the differences between nomadic pastoral and transhumant migrations. How did each shape Afro-European history during the second millennium BCE? Describe the Shang state in East Asia. How was it similar and different from the territorial states of western Afro-Eurasia? What do the pr...

Answers: Compare and contrast the islands of the south Pacific to those in the eastern Mediterranean. Why were societies in the South Pacific more fragmented and isolated than those in the eastern Mediterranean? Explain why early state structures were smaller and less integrated in Europe and the Ce...

Answers: Migrating populations paved the way for greater cultural integration across Afro-Eurasia after 1200 BCE. Where did the migrants come from, and where did they move? How did they shape the regions in which they settled? Compare the Zhou state to the regional empires in western Afro-Eurasia in...