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This group was the landless working class in Rome.

One Essay (50 points): Answer one (1) question below, providing as much relevant detail as possible.  Your answer should be roughly two pages.   2. How does Buddhism differ from traditional Vedic religion? Using “Dueling Voices: Hinduism and Buddhism in Ancient India” section in Chapter 5.4 of the textbook, discuss some examples of these differences. How was Buddhism spread in the first few centuries of its existence? How did Buddhism influence the rule of Ashoka in the Mauryan Empire? What do Figures 5.22 and 5.23 in Chapter 5 tell us about the relationship between Buddhism and Ashoka? Do the two figures suggest that Ashoka imposed Buddhism upon his empire? Explain your answer.     4. Discuss slavery, citizenship, and society during the principate era of the Roman Empire. How vital was slavery to the Roman Empire? Provide two examples of the type of work slaves performed in the Roman Empire. According to Mary Beard’s Meet the Romans, Episode 1, how did Romans define citizenship and being Roman during the principate? Was citizenship a limited concept, open only to a few residents, as we saw in the Greek city-states of classical Greece, or a more expansive view of citizenship? Why was Rome considered a consuming city? What are two examples of Rome as a consuming city found in the Beard documentary? How does the Colosseum, as shown in Meet the Romans, demonstrate the social hierarchy and openness of Roman society?  

Roman citizenship, or __, included the right to vote, property rights, marriage rights, and commercial rights.

In Buddhism, the __ acknowledge that pain and disappointment are unavoidable parts of life.

This is a script characterized by wedge-shaped symbols that evolved into a phonetic script—that is, one based on sounds— in which each symbol stood for a syllable.

King Croesus of Lydia increased the speed of trade by solving the problem of trust.  He guaranteed the purity of coins in his kingdom. 

True or false? During the expansionist period of Islam, many Christians in the newly conquered areas viewed Muslims as liberating them from Zoroastrianism.

The war between the Persians and the Byzantines ended in 628 after emperor __ rebuilt the Byzantine army.

True or false? Legalism was a tradition predicated on the belief that people did not need to get overly invested in the specifics of legal codes but instead should embrace general moral values in society.

Most of the images that the early humans at Çatalhöyük used to decorate their homes were images of __.