, Hist 110A key terms definitions, Key Terms Bodhisattva Dharma Romanization Senate Bantu Shi’a Manor Umma Equal-field system Chapter Overview or Section Focus Questions – One paragraph answers Ch. 6. How did the geographical location and trade relations of the Kushan Empire affect its cultural traditions? Ch. 7. How did the Roman Empire bring administrative and cultural unity to the vast territory it ruled? Ch. 8. Why did the ancient cultures of Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific often show similar developments in spite of their isolation from one another? Ch. 8. What do their material remains tell us about Pacific Islanders’ society and culture? Ch. 9. Why did Christianity and Islam achieve their initial success in towns and cities rather than in the rural countryside? Ch. 10. What patterns of political and cultural borrowing characterized the emerging states in East and Southeast Asia? Making Connections Questions – Two paragraph answers Ch. 6. How did the cultural innovations in India and China compare with those in Greece of the first millennium B.C.E.? Ch. 7. How did the world empires of the centuries from 500 B.C.E. to 500 C.E. facilitate the spread of new ideas and religions? Compare, for example, the Han and Roman empires. Ch. 8. Consider the agricultural techniques and resources of the inhabitants of Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific. What do the similarities and differences reveal about the development of their cultures? Ch. 9. In what ways did the spiritual authority of the Islamic ulama differ from that exercised by the Christian popes and bishops? Ch. 10. Do you think that the invasions of Germanic people into the Roman Empire had more lasting consequences than the invasions in China by steppe nomad peoples? Why or why not? ...