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Chapter 5
The Classical Period: Directions, Diversities, and Declines by 500 C.E.
I. Expansion and Integration
a. Key point – how did classical civilizations adjust to expansion
i. Between 550>400 BCE Confucius, Laozi, Buddha, Socrates
1. Need to articulate central values
b. How did they all unite?
i. China – more centralized
ii. Mediterranean – more localized/diverse
iii. India – key religious values – not as vulnerable to collapse – like Rome
c. What are the two challenges of integration?
i. Territorial – how to command
1. China – language for elite, resettlement
2. Rome – local autonomy, tolerance
3. India – spread caste system
ii. Social – inequality between men/women – upper/lower class
1. China – hierarchy – deference – obedience – Confucian
