Long paragraph, history homework help
Unit 1 Introduction
- history
- civilization
- Pre-History
- Paleolithic and Neolithic eras
- Mesopotamia
- Hammurabi
- monotheism
- pharaoh
Unit 4 Classical Mediterranean
- Plato
- Cyrus
- Julius Caesar
- Pax Romana
- Harappa
- Gupta Empire
- Gautama Buddha
- Asoka (Ashoka)
- Maya
- Inka (Inca)
- Montezuma II
- Atahualpa
- Zhou (Chou) dynasty
- Confucius
- The Silk Road
- Qin Shi Huangdi (Shih Huang-ti)
- Justinian
- Byzantine Empire
- Vladimir
- Rus’
- Muhammad
- Abbasid
- Khalifa (caliph)
- Qur’an (Koran)
Unit 10 Charlemagne and the European Middle Ages
- Chivalry
- Feudalism
- Charlemagne
- Magna Carta
- Ghengis Khan (Chinggis Khan)
- T’ang dynasty
- Delhi sultanate
- Bantu
- Great Zimbabwe
- Mansa Musa
- Swahili
- Shogunate
- Yamato regime (clan)
- Bushido
Unit 14 Renaissance and Reformation
- Renaissance
- Humanism
- Martin Luther
- Ottoman Empire
- Prince Henry the Navigator
- Conquistador
- Columbus
- Hernán Cortés
- history
- civilization
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Unit 1 Introduction
- How has geography influenced the course of history?
- What is human progress?
- What role did technological innovation play in the development of early humankind?
- What was important about the shift to the use of systematic agriculture in the Neolithic period?
- Why did cities first form in Mesopotamia?
- What enabled ancient Egypt to exist for so long a period of time as a cultural unit?
Unit 4 Classical Mediterranean
- What factors contributed to the eventual destruction of the Roman Empire?
- Why were the Ancient Greeks so interested in questions of philosophy?
- How and why did Harappan civilization end?
- Why did Buddhism arise as a religious reform movement in South Asia?
- Why did the large-scale civilization emerge somewhat later in the Americas than in Eurasia?
- What factors enabled the Aztec Empire to expand so quickly in the fifteenth century?
- What were some of the social and political characteristics of classical Chinese civilization of the Han Dynasty?
- Compare and contrast the origin, development and characteristics of Buddhism, Christianity and Confucianism.
- What were some of the distinctive features of early Russian civilization based in Kiev?
- What factors enabled Byzantine civilization to last until the fifteenth century?
- How did Islam continue the traditions of Christianity and Judaism?
- How did the Islamic empire of the Abbasid era mirror some of the features of the Roman empire?
Unit 10 Charlemagne and the European Middle Ages
- Why did the center of Western civilization move from the Mediterranean to Northwestern Europe?
- What impact did the Crusades have on the development of European civilization?
- Compare and contrast the origin, development and characteristics of Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism and Confucianism.
- Why were the Mongols able to create such a large empire?
- What were some of the distinctive features of societies in early Ghana and Mali?
- Was there an early “African” cultural or social pattern?
- What were some of the characteristics of early Japanese history?
- How much did Japanese political practice borrow from the Chinese?
Unit 14 Renaissance and Reformation
- Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy?
- Why did the Protestant reform movements in Christianity succeed in the early sixteenth century?
- How did the discovery of other world societies change Europe’s view of itself?
- What specific technologies did Europeans develop that allowed them to sail the open seas?
- How has geography influenced the course of history?
- What is human progress?
Please answer each question in a long paragraph. Thanks.
