How do later Mongol reflections on the yasa bring out the uneasy relationship they had with the memory of Genghis Khan.

Why would the early temple have been much like a house?

What do ancient stories tell us about the civilisation of Mesopotamia?

Compare the Venetian idea of good government with those in contemporary France.

Compare the conditions of life for a French serf and a Roman slave.

Why do we say that it was not natural fertility and high levels of food production that were the causes of early urbanisation?

What was the function of medieval monasteries?

Why did knights become a distinct group and when did they decline?

Why did Genghis Khan feel the need to fragment the Mongol tribes into new social and military groupings?

How did long-term changes in population levels affect economy and society in Europe

Why was trade so significant to the Mongols?

Discuss the extent to which (a) hunting and (b) constructing shelters would have been facilitated by the use of language. What other modes of communication could have been used for these activities?

Why was trade so significant to the Mongols?

How did the discovery of South America lead to the development of European colonialism? HOTS

What do ancient stories tell us about the civilisation of Mesopotamia?

How does the following account enlarge upon the character of the Pax Mongolica created by the Mongols by the middle of the thirteenth century? The Franciscan monk, William of Rubruck, was sent by Louis IX of France on an embassy to the great Khan Mongke’s court. He reached Karakorum, the capital of Mongke, in 1254 and came upon a woman from Lorraine (in France) called Paquette, who had been brought from Hungary and was in the service of one of the prince’s wives who was a Nestorian Christian. At the court he came across a Parisian goldsmith named Guillaume Boucher, ‘whose brother dwelt on the Grand Pont in Paris’. This man was first employed by the Queen Sorghaqtani and then by Mongke’s younger brother. Rubruck found that at the great court festivals the Nestorian priests were admitted first, with their regalia, to bless the Grand Khan’s cup, and were followed by the Muslim clergy and Buddhist and Taoist monks.

Compare the Venetian idea of good government with those in contemporary France.

How did long-term changes in population levels affect economy and society in Europe

Write an account of the journey of an African boy of seventeen captured and taken to Brazil as a slave.
 

How did the Qing dynasty try and meet the challenge posed by the Western powers?

Give reasons for Spain and Portugal being the first in the 5th century to venture across the Atlantic.