Question 1

What role did competition between the Orthodox and Catholic churches play in the patterns of Christian expansion?
In Perspective

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Question 2

What environmental factors played a role in the divergence of the histories of sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas from those of Eurasia and North Africa during the first millennium C.E.?

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Question 3

Why are the environmental histories of such varied regions as the Islamic world, China, Japan, and Mesoamerica so important? Are such long-ago transformations relevant or meaningful today?

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Question 4

Discuss ways that the geography and climate of sub-Saharan Africa and the Americas shaped the spread and diffusion of cultural practices between 700 and 1000 CE. Use examples from both regions to discuss aspects that were isolating and different ways this isolation was overcome.
  
-Theodora (Byzantine Empire) - Chapter 8 (p. 252)
-early Islamic women's rights - Chapter 8 (p. 255)
-Empress Wu (Tang dynasty) - Chapter 8 (p. 260)
-Japanese royalty allowing women to rule - Chapter 8 (p. 263)
-Buddhist nun (visual source p. 289) - Chapter 9 (p. 290)
-"Religious Women" - Chapter 9 (p. 291)
-Mongol women (primary source) - Chapter 10 (p. 333)

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Question 5

What role did trade and commerce play in the development of states across Eurasia compared with similar developments in the Americas and sub-Saharan Africa?

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Question 6

How did religious missionaries act as agents of expansion in eighth- and ninth-century Europe?

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Question 7

Write an essay that explores the puzzle of Polynesian culture and the colonization of the Pacific before 1000 C.E. Discuss factors that contributed to this expansion, the archeological evidence that documents its spread, and the technology that made it possible. What common cultural traits and religious practices bound these people together even as the explored islands were hundreds of miles apart?

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Question 8

What role did Charlemagne play in the expansion of the Christian world?

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Question 9

Why does the British navigator Captain Cook receive credit for "discovering" many Pacific islands, rather than the Polynesian peoples he found on them?

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Quiz 10: Remaking the World: Innovation and Renewal on Environmental Frontiers in the Late First Millenium

What role did competition between the Orthodox and Catholic churches play in the patterns of Christian expansion? In Perspective