Answer each question with 1-2 Paragraphs. doesn’t need to be an essay, but should be longer than couple sentences.
1.How did cereal grains (wheat, barley, etc) influence the development of settled society?
2.How did Egyptians and Mesopotamians differ in their perception of beer? How do you (or Standage) account for the similarities but also pronounced differences in how they thought about beer?
3.Describe the connections drawn in the “Zhou Ritual Vessel” between the production of elaborate bronze vessels used to honor ancestors and the Mandate of Heaven.
4.The Indus River Valley society is the only one of the four classic river societies for which we have little written record and what we do has never been translated. How do objects like the “Indus Seal” help give us clues into the world of the Indus River Valley? What can it tell us about the society that produced it?
5.How do the “Pillars of Ashoka” reflect his governing philosophy? What was the dharma of a ruler supposed to be?
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