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

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?

Why were mobile animal herders not necessarily a threat to town life?

Why were Italian towns the first to experience the ideas of humanism?

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

Why was trade so significant to the Mongols?

Do you think that Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China were successful in liberating China and laying the basis for its current success?

Give examples of the cosmopolitan character of the states set up by Arabs, Iranians and Turks.

Which of the following were necessary conditions and which the causes, of early urbanisation, and which would you say were the outcome of the growth of cities:

(a) highly productive agriculture,

(b) water transport,

(c) the lack of metal and stone,

(d) the division of labour,

(e) the use of seals,

(f) the military power of kings that made labour compulsory?

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

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