Unlike Plato, Aristotle advocated the rigorous investigation of real phenomena to uncover the natural order of the universe, teaching his students with detailed lectures.

The Greeks referred to people as “barbarians” if they did not speak Greek.

How is the digestion process in fungi different from the digestion process in humans (2-3 sentences)?

Akhenaten’s failed reforms represent one of the earliest shifts, in Western history, toward monotheism.

The US has a very safe food supply, so foodborne diseases aren’t a major cause for concern here.

Historians’ understanding of ancient Sparta is flawed and may be unreliable because most written sources about them come from Athens.

During the age of Pericles (the mid 5th century B.C.), the practice of ostracism was used to protect the participatory democracy of Athens. 

Skilled labor in Egypt was neither highly valued nor better compensated than corvée labor.

Select ONE of the following questions and provide an answer supported by evidence in roughly 250 words. Explain why many Bronze Age societies faced turmoil; how, later, did the advent of iron affect the development of civilization? Discuss the impact of agriculture, attempting to account for its appearance, diffusion and its social impacts. Discuss the transformation of Athens into a democracy, discussing how this political regime functioned, and contrast this pattern of development with that of Sparta. Compare and contrast the roles and status of women across various Western cultures from Sumer through to the end of the Hellenistic period.   What does the Epic of Gilgamesh reveal about the culture of the Ancient Near East? Discuss religious transformations in the Ancient world. Compare and contrast strategies of empire management in the ancient world, accounting for their causes and consequences.

Egyptian society was more restrictive toward women than Mesopotamian society.