World History

Here is the prompt:

From the fall of the classical civilizations of the Roman Mediterranean and the Han dynasty of China to the beginnings of a new, European-dominated maritime trade in the 15th century, what interactive relationship developed between trade, the process of empire-building, and the evolution and spread of religious and philosophical traditions within each of our regions of the Eastern Hemisphere? 

Draw evidence from all of the Eastern Hemisphere (Byzantium, the Islamic Empires, Europe (both Early and High Middle Ages and the Renaissance), sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Central and North Asia, and East Asia) using all your readings sources as appropriate.  

My best advice is to organize your essay with each of these regions as the subject of a single paragraph–the exception of dividing Europe into three separate paragraphs on the Early Medieval, High Medieval, and Renaissance eras.  Within each paragraph identify the relationship between trade, empire-building, and the evolution and spread of religious and philosophical traditions within that region.  For instance, when you are looking at Byzantium, how did the imperial government function in general terms and what role did it play in trade and in the evolution and spread of religious and philosophical traditions.  In the process you will be describing the traditions that dominated in this empire.  A topic sentence for this paragraph might be something like the following: “the Byzantine Empire functioned as a monarchical system of government with an emperor at the top ruling through a bureaucracy that attempted to control trade and the evolution and spread of religious and philosophical traditions.”  The rest of the paragraph would then be structured to illustrate this sentence.  For each of your other regions, think about whether this statement is true for them as well .  

Canvas will submit this essay to Turnitin, which will submit it to a plagiarism review