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Chapter 10: The Worlds of Christendom
Due: 11/07/2016
1. What variations in the experience of African and Asian Christian communities can you identify?
2. In what respects did Byzantium continue the patterns of the classical Roman Empire? In what ways did it
diverge from those patterns?
3. How did Eastern Orthodox Christianity differ from Roman Catholicism?
4. In what ways was the Byzantine Empire linked to a wider world?
5. How did links to Byzantium transform the new civilization of Kievan Rus?
6. What replaced the Roman order in western Europe?
7. In what ways was European civilization changing after 1000?
8. What was the impact of the crusades in world history?
9. In what ways did borrowing from abroad shape European civilization after 1000?
10. Why was Europe unable to achieve the kind of political unity that China experienced? What impact did this
have on the subsequent history of Europe?
11. In what different ways did classical Greek philosophy and science have an impact in the West, in Byzantium,
and in the Islamic world?
Define:
1. Nubian Christianity:
2. Jesus sutras:
3. Ethiopian Christianity:
4. Byzantine Empire:
5. Constantinople:
6. Justinian:
7. Caesaropapism:
8. Eastern Orthodox Christianity:
9. Icons:
10. Prince Vladimir of Kiev:
11. Kievan Rus:
12. Charlemagne:
13. Holy Roman Empire:
14. Roman Catholic Church:
15. Western Christendom:
16. Cecilia Penifader:
17. Crusades:
Due: Monday 11/14/2016
Chapter 11 Pastoral People on the Global Stage
1. In what ways did pastoral societies differ from their agricultural counterparts?
2. In what ways did pastoral societies interact with their agricultural neighbors?
3. In what ways did Xiongnu, Arabs, Turks and Berbers make an impact on world history?
4. Identify the major steps in the rise of the Mongol Empire.
5. How did Mongol rule change China? In what ways were the Mongols changed by China?
6. How was Mongol rule in Persia different from that in China?
7. What was distinctive about the Russian experience of Mongol rule?
8. What kinds of cross cultural interactions did the Mongol Empire generate?
9. Disease changes societies. How might this argument apply to the plague?
Define:
1. Pastoralism:
2. Modun:
3. Xiongnu:
4. Turks:
5. Almoravid Empire:
6. Temujin/Chinggis Khan:
7. The Mongol world war:
8. Yuan dynasty China:
9. Khubilia Khan:
10. Hulegu:
11. Khutulun:
12. Kipchak Khanate/Golden Horde:
13. Black Death/Plague:
Due: Monday 11/21/2016
Chapter 12: The Worlds of the Fifteenth Century
1. In what ways did the gathering and hunting peoples of Australia differ from those of the northwest coast of
North America? (p. 560)
2. What kinds of changes were transforming the societies of the West African Igbo and the North American
Iroquois as the 15th century unfolded? (p. 563)
3. What role did Central Asian and West African pastoralists play in their respective regions? (p. 565)
4. How would you describe the major achievements of Ming dynasty China? (p. 566)
5. What political and cultural differences stand out in the histories of 15th century China and Western Europe?
What similarities are apparent? (p. 569)
6. In what ways did European maritime voyaging in the 15th century differ from that of China? What accounts for
these differences? (p. 573)
7. What differences can you identify among the four major empires in the Islamic world of the 15th and 16th
centuries? (p. 576)
8. What distinguishes the Aztec and Inca empires from each other? (p. 580)
9. How did Aztec religious thinking support the empire? (p. 583)
10. In what ways did the Inca authorities seek to integrate their vast domains? (p. 584)
11. In what different ways did the peoples of the 15th century interact with one another? (p. 586)
Define:
1. Paleolithic persistence:
2. Igbo:
3. Iroquois:
4. Timur:
5. Fulbe:
6. Ming Dynasty China:
7. European Reanaissance:
8. Zheng He:
9. Ottoman Empire:
10. Seizure of Constantinople:
11. Safavid Empire:
12. Songhay Empire:
13. Timbuktu:
14. Mughal Empire:
15. Malacca:
16. Aztec Empire:
17. Inca Empire:
Due: Monday 11/28/2016
Chapter 13: Political Transformations
1. What enabled Europeans to carve out huge empires an ocean away from their homelands?
2. What large scale transformations did European empires generate?
3. What was the economic foundation of colonial rule in Mexico and Peru? How did it shape the kinds of societies
that arose there?
4. How did the plantation societies of Brazil and the Caribbean differ from those of southern colonies in British
North America?
5. What distinguished the British settler colonies of North America from their counterparts in Latin America?
6. What motivated Russian empire building?
7. How did the Russian Empire transform the life of its conquered people and of the Russian homeland itself?
8. What were the major features of Chinese empire building in the early modern era?
9. How did Mughal attitudes and policies toward Hindus change from the time of Akbar to that of Aurangzeb?
10. In what ways was the Ottoman Empire important for Europe in the early modern era?
Define:
1. Cortez:
2. the great dying:
3. Dona Marina:
4. Columbian Exchange:
5. Peninsulares:
6. Mestizo:
7. Plantation complex:
8. Mullatoes:
9. settler colonies:
10. Siberia:
11. yasak:
12. Qing dynasty empire:
13. Mughal Empire:
14. Akbar:
15. Aurangzeb:
16. Ottoman Empire:
17. Constantinople:
18. devshirme: