Thesis+Statements

Thesis Statements:


 * Compare and contrast the ways civilizations developed in India and Mesopotamia**

In India and Mesopotamia, warfare and the occasional battle for sovriegnity kept reoccuring throughout both regions, which helped further develop a working central government with emphasis on political values in Mesopotamia and a developing Caste system on a conquer-base social tree with emphasis on Regional powers.


 * Compare and contrast the impact of Confucianism in China with Hinduism in India.**

Confucianism in China impacted political roles and cultural values, as while Hinduism in India affected the social system and Intellectual atmosphere, but both civilizations converge on the perspective that both philosophies influenced religious affinity.


 * Describe the changes and continuities in the role of women in the transition from a hunter gathering life style to civilization**

Domestication for the most part had only been attributed to the later years of civilization, where women served as nothing more than house servants in India and as a domestic house wife in China. In comparison with the past where women were treated equally with respect to their ability to give birth, they were treated fairly equal. In one continuty though women still had the rights under law, where no one was excused from injury.


 * Compare the development of political structures in Classical China with those in Classical India**

Classical China and Classical India both had a homogenous bureucrat system to represent a larger central government, the basic divergense though lays in the more centralized government of China due to engagements in Legalism and Confucianism and a more weak centralization of government in India due to basic values of Relgion and the Caste System.


 * Descibre the different trading patterns China and India what factors can explain these differences**

Trading in China was not as developed yet as India was, because for most of the earlier years China was working in stablizing itself rather because it was located in a very isolated region where its only trading companions had been India and south east Asia. India on the other hand was in the middle of everyway, being able to trade with the Middle,east directly above it, China directly east, and the Mediterrean civilizations due west.