Please respond to one prompt from each category
The Silk Road and Eurasian and African Trade
1. What was the Silk Road? What areas did it connect together into a trading zone? How did the formation and devolution of political entities in Asia influence this overland trading route? How did the Silk Road, in turn, shape politics? Finally, what was the relationship like between Silk Road trade and the Indian Ocean maritime trading network?
2. Describe some of the key aspects of Saharan and Sub-Saharan African civilization as presented in Chapter 6 of the textbook. Specifically, describe the role African civilizations played in the broader Eurasian trading zone.
3. What role did the Silk Road play in the transfer of ideas throughout the Eurasian (and Africa) zone in the first centuries of the Common Era? Specifically, how did trading help foster the spread of Christianity and Buddhism? Why do you think some faiths were able to spread along the channels of commerce while others were not? In other words, what made some ideas moveable and others fixed to specific locations?
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The Origins and Development of Christianity
1. Take a close look at Paul's letter to the Galatians. Based on a close analysis of the letter, why do you think Paul is writing it? Who is he addressing? What has happened in Galatia to provoke Paul in such a way? Now look at James. Who does he seem to be addressing and why? What sense do you get from these two letters about Christian life in the first century Roman world?
2. Paul's Galatians, Matthew, and James all take on the issue of how followers of Christ should relate to the Jewish law. What does Matthew report about the law in the Sermon on the Mount? What does Paul say about the law? What does James say? How does each try to prove his case?
3. Important to both James and Paul is interpretation of the sacred scriptures, which meant the Jewish scriptures in the first century. Paul and James both make use of the figure of Abraham. How do these portraits of Abraham differ? What meaning do you get, specifically, from Paul's allegorical use of the story of Hagar and Sarah?
4. Interesting in Matthew is the position on gentiles in the early Jesus movement. What does he say about gentiles and how would you relate this to Paul's Galatians?
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