Global history and culture I

* define 5 terms of the study terms below with enough details and answer one of the study questions in details * the book name is The World: A History by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (Combined Volume, 3rd Edition, Pearson 2016) ISBN# 978-0-13-393020-7. the chapters in their entirety and then following the same process as before: 1. Select 5 (five) of the Study Terms below, locate them in the text, and post brief definitions of each (3-5 sentences explaining the historical significance of each, including relevant information such as dates and related names etc.) 2. Select 1 (one) of the Study Questions below and post your answer (5-10 sentences, min. 100 words). Answer the question in your own words and provide as much relevant and detailed information as possible. Study Terms: a)   Nebuchadnezzar II        b) Phoenicians                          c) Writing systems        d) Classical e)   Iliad  and Odyssey        f) Mandate of Heaven               g) Brahman                  h)   King Solomon              i) Zoroastrianism                      j) Buddhism                 k)   Siddhartha Gautama      l) Daosim                                 m) Jews n)   Abraham                      o) Covenant                              p) Jesus                        q) Confucius r)    Plato                            s) monotheism                          t) Chinese Legalism u)   Confucianism               v) Aristotle                               x) Rationalism / Reason   Study Questions: 1. What were the characteristics of Assyrian and Babylonian societies? 2. How did Greek city-state democracy work? 3. What were hydraulic ingenuities and how did they effect societies? 4. Why did hard-iron technology develop in Africa? 5. What were sages? What was new in the thinking of the age of sages? 6. Why did monotheism become so widely accepted in most of the world? 7. How did exile and suffering affect Jewish concepts of God? 8. Who were the “secular” thinkers and what was their contribution? 9. How did religious ideas affect political thought in the period of the sages? 10. Why were most sages optimists rather than pessimists? 11. Why were most sages optimists rather than pessimists? 12. How was skepticism a result of science? What were its effects on sages and society? 13. What role did networks, schools, and patrons play in spreading the thinking of the sages?