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Learning Objectives
After reading this chapter, you should be able to:
1. Discuss the environmental factors that contributed to the rise of state-organized society in
South Asia.
2. Evaluate the trade network developed between the South Asian subcontinent and Persian Gulf
societies.
3. Analyze the rise and eventual fall of the Harappan civilization in the Indus Valley.
4. Discuss the movement of South Asian civilization into the Ganges River valley, culminating in
the Mauryan Empire.
5. Detail the emergence of state-organized societies in China. Discuss how these societies
emerged independently of other state-organized societies.
6. Review how Shang society was organized.
7. Analyze the overthrow of the Shang dynasty by the Zhou and its success.
8. Relate the rise of state-level societies of the Mekong River valley and central Cambodia.
9. Examine the impact of Islam on early Southeast Asian civilizations.