Choose one of the following for the essay prompt.
- Compare the significance of bureaucratic and priestly classes in the emergence of Mesopotamia, Egypt and China. What factors helped to empower certain groups?
- Compare and contrast how thinkers in China, South Asia and the Greek city-states began to consider how to improve their societies. How did the various thinkers respond to the particular circumstances of their states, societies and/or cultures?
- Compare how the societies in Mesoamerica, South America, and sub-Saharan Africa were affected by the connections that they had or failed to have with other societies. How did these societies structure their broad social relations?
- Compare and contrast Buddhist and Confucian philosophies. How did each seek to respond to different sets of issues?
