Describe two features of early feudal society in France.

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?

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

Discuss how daily life was transformed as Japan developed?

Write a careful account of how the world appeared different to seventeenth century Europeans.

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

Why was trade so significant to the Mongols?

Of the new institutions that came into being once city life had begun, which would have depended on the initiative of the king?

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

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

Look at the diagram showing the positive feedback mechanism on page 13. Can you list the inputs that went into tool making? What were the processes that were strengthened by tool making?

Compare the civilization of the Aztecs with that of the Mesopotamians.