Read Ch 4 and 7. Berger, Eugene, et al. World History: Cultures,

Read Ch 4 and 7.

Berger, Eugene, et al. World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500, Dalhonega, GA: University of Georgia, 2016. http://oer.galileo.usg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1001&context=history-textbooks

DIRECTIONS-Please discuss the following question. Try and keep your original response essay to the question to between 250 and 300 words. Please use historical examples from your readings (lecture lessons and common reader) in this original essay. You are required to cite your textbook or outside sources using parenthetical citation (author, page number) or using Turabian style footnotes. Please put your source(s) at the end of your essay (if using footnotes) and always include a bibliography. Finally, please try to support your essay using examples or sources different from your fellow classmates.

Please restate the question verbatim you are answering before your response. Please restate my follow-up question verbatim as well.

Each Forum is graded on a 100 point scale:

Main Essay (50 points, Friday 11:55 PM Eastern deadline). Assigned source required (Berger text and/or lesson lectures) with parenthetical or footnote citation and Work Cited/Bibliography.

Student Response to Professor’s Follow-up Question (20 points, Sunday 11:55 PM Eastern deadline). One source required with with parenthetical or footnote citation and Work Cited/Bibliography.

Two Student Responses (30 points, Sunday 11:55 PM Eastern deadline).

Later in the Assignment Window (Saturday and Sunday), please take the time and respond to at least two of your classmates’ essays. Make sure your responses are both thoughtful and substantive. Opinions are welcome in your responses, but opinions should be accompanied with support. A gentle reminder that encyclopedias are never allowed as sources in this or any history course in this University. Use of forbidden tertiary sources will result in a one letter grade deduction per use. Do not ask questions in these student responses in your weekly general forum. Please save your questions for your travel log responses to your fellow students.

Please keep in mind that you are required to answer my follow-up question (in 150 to 200 words) before the Sunday deadline and that this exchange with me does not count as one of your required follow-up postings to your fellow students.

Make sure you address your fellow students by name at the beginning of your post.

GENERAL FORUM QUESTIONS:

Choose one of the following questions and respond by Friday at 11:55 PM EST. Respond to at least two other students by Sunday at 11:55 PM EST.

Because of the size of this class, pick a new question to respond to if the question has been responded to by five of your fellow students by the time of your submission. Please put the number of the question you are answering in your Subject Line of your main essay response (example “Question #1”). This will allow you to easily see how many times this question has been answered.

1) How did China change with the death of the First Emperor and the rise of the Han Dynasty? How did this change lead to increased trade and contact with the world outside of China? Do you believe that this increased trade had an influence on the development of Han society?

2) How did the Tang government address economic and social issues that emerged with growing trade? Why do you think they felt it was important to address inequalities in Tang society?

3) How did Buddhism find its way to China? Why do you think this outside belief was so readily accepted into Chinese society? How was Buddhism integrated into China?

4) How was the rest of East Asia influenced by the growing power of China? In what ways did these different countries incorporate outside philosophy and ideas into their own societies? Why do you think these ideas were so appealing?

5) Why was the Eastern half of the Roman Empire able to survive after the fall of the West? How did they encourage intellectual and commercial advancement? How did the increasing conflict between Sassanid Persia and Byzantium shape their development? Why do you think Byzantium was such a desirable target for conquest?

6) How did Christianity differ between East and West? In what way did Christianity play a role in the political tensions in Byzantium? Why do you think religion had such a strong influence on Byzantine society?

7) What methods were used to spread Christianity throughout the West? How did the Church create a standardized doctrine? Why do you think the assimilation of different versions of Christianity was important to the strength of the Catholic Church?

8) How did the different so-called Barbarian groups create new kingdoms? How did they integrate their traditional social and political structures with the Roman way of life in the regions that they conquered? Why do you think some of the kingdoms were successful while others failed after a few generations?