Unit 2: Expanding Networks of Exchange and Encounters, 1000 BCE-500 CE
Topics:
1. Rise of Classical India and Belief Systems- Hinduism and Buddhism 2. Rise of Classical China and Belief Systems-Zhou, Qin, and Han AND Confucianism, Legalism, and Daoism 3. Rise of Classical Mediterranean (Greece and Persia, Alexander the Great, and Rome) and Greek Rationalism Christianity 4. Cross Cultural Encounters-Commerce and Culture-Silk Roads, Indian Ocean Trade, Trans-Saharan, and American NEtwork