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Why did Japan follow such a different developmental route from China, despite borrowing heavily from Chinese political structure, religion, and culture?
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What did the collapse of the Chinese and Indian states have in common with the dissolution of the Roman Empire in the West?

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Question 3

What were China's relations with its neighbors during the period following the collapse of the Han dynasty?

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How did the Islamic religion transform Arabian culture? What elements can you identify in Islam that aided in the spread of the Islamic Empire across Eurasia from the seventh to eighth centuries C.E.?

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What factors favored the recreation of imperial unity in China after the collapse of the Han? How do these factors compare to conditions in the two halves of the Roman Empire?

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What were the consequences of the rise of Islam as a political and religious movement during the seventh to eighth centuries C.E.?

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What was the state of the empires that dominated southwestern Asia during the seventh century C.E.? What challenges had they faced during the previous century?

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Discuss how Islam and Arabic social practices facilitated the rapid spread of Islamic culture and empires through Africa and Asia Minor in the 8th century.

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What effect did the creation of an Islamic empire have on the Arabs and on Islam itself? How did the empire contribute to divisions within the Muslim world?

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Explain how Byzantium and the Byzantine empire served as a crossroads and buffer zone between the Arabs in Asia Minor and the remnants of the Roman Empire in Western Europe. What distinctive practices enabled the Byzantine empire to survive as long as it did?

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How was an imperial state reconstituted during the period of the Sui and Tang dynasties in China? What role did steppe nomads play in this process?

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How was the world that recovered from the crises of the third through the seventh centuries a world of civilization?

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How did China interact with Tibet, Japan, and Korea as they developed into states?

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Quiz 8: Postimperial Worlds: Problems of Empires in Eurasia and Africa, Ca 200 to 700 Ce

Why did Japan follow such a different developmental route from China, despite borrowing heavily from Chinese political structure, religion, and culture? In Perspective