What common features can you identify in the empires described in Chapter 3?

Question set 1: What common features can you identify in the empires described in Chapter 3? In what ways did they differ from one another? What accounts for those differences?

Question set 2: How does historians’ use of the term “civilization” differ from popular usage? How do you use it?

Extra credit: Here you see the two question sets I asked. What else might I have asked?

question 1 and 2 are about 350 words