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

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?

Compare details of Italian architecture of this period with Islamic architecture.

What was the function of medieval monasteries?

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

What is meant by the term ‘Abbasid revolution’?

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.

Why was trade so significant to the Mongols?

What were the major developments before the Meiji restoration that made it possible for Japan to modernise rapidly?

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

Which of the following do you think is best documented in the archaeological record: (a) gathering, (b) tool making, (c) the use of fire?

What were the features of the lives of the Bedouins in the early seventh century?