Compare the territorial states of North Africa and Southwest Asia with the more modest states of Shang China and with the small-scale states of the Central Andes and Europe.

How did the territorial state differ from the previous forms of states? Where and when did territorial states form, and what factors encouraged the formation of territorial states?
How did the domestication of the horse in Afro-Eurasia affect the development of nomadic and settled societies during the second millennium BCE? How was the horse integrated into military technologies?
Compare the maritime development of the Aegean with that of the South Pacific in the second millennium BCE. What accounts for the similarities and differences in the societies that they developed?
Compare the territorial states of North Africa and Southwest Asia with the more modest states of Shang China and with the small-scale states of the Central Andes and Europe. What types of factors encouraged or inhibited the development of certain types of state structures?
How did nomadic and transhumant peoples shape Afro-Eurasian development? In what ways were these peoples similar and different?
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