- The Structure of Complex Societies
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- Explain the ways that environment drove humans to organize themselves into complex societies.
- What structures did humans create to facilitate this organization into societies?
- What benefits did the societies derive from this organization and these structures?
- Incorporate evidence from both primary and secondary sources to support your claims about the ways that the structure of human organization contributed to the rise of societies, states, and empires.
- Class and Gender Structures
- Explain how the states or empires developed and organized class and gender structures.
- What effect did these class and gender structures have on the states or empires during the period 500 BCE–1500 CE?
- Analyze how class and gender affected a person’s ability to participate in his or her state or empire.
- Incorporate evidence from both primary and secondary sources to support your claims about the ways that class and gender structures contributed to the rise of states and empires.
- Intellectual and Religious Structures
- Explain what forces spurred the development of intellectual and religious structures in these states or empires.
- What factors caused these intellectual and religious structures to differ across states and empires? What commonalities and differences did intellectual and religious structures share across states and empires?
- Explain what tools and machines developed in these different societies, states, and empires. How were these different according to the needs of the given society, state, or empire?
- Incorporate evidence from both primary and secondary sources to support your claims about the ways that intellectual and religious structures contributed to the rise of societies, states, and empires.
- Economic and Political Structures
- Explain how the economies of the emerging states or empires interacted with their neighbors and the broader world.
- Analyze at least three political events or trends in neighboring areas or other world regions that may have affected the development of these interactions.
- How might the development of these interactions in turn have affected both neighboring and distant societies?
- Incorporate evidence from both primary and secondary sources to support your claims about the ways that economic and political structures contributed to the rise of societies, states, and empires.
- Historical Perspective
- Summarize the role played by increasing global networks in the development of states and empires between 3000 BCE and 1500 CE
- Primary and Secondary Sources
- Ensure that you have utilized primary sources purposefully and effectively throughout your paper to support your argument and claims.
- Ensure that you have utilized secondary sources purposefully and effectively throughout your paper to support your argument and claims.
Your historical analysis essay should be 6 to 8 pages in length (plus a cover page and references) and must be written in Chicago/Turabian format. Use double spacing, 12-point Times New Roman font, and one-inch margins. Include at least six references cited in Chicago/Turabian format. If you choose to use endnotes instead of footnotes, those do not count toward your page total.