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Discuss the extent to which (a) hunting and (b) constructing shelters would have been facilitated by the use of language. What other modes of communication could have been used for these activities?
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Choose any two developments each from Timelines 1 and 2 at the end of the chapter and indicate why you think these are significant.
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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?
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Why do we say that it wasnot natural fertility and high levels of food production that were the causes of early urbanisation?
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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?
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Why were mobile animal herders not necessarily a threat to town life?
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Why would the early temple have been much like a house?
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Of the new institutions that came into being once city life had begun, which would have depended on the initiative of the king?
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What do ancient stories tell us about the civilisation of Mesopotamia?
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What were the features of the lives of the Bedouins in the early seventh century?
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What is meant by the term ‘Abbasid revolution’?
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Give examples of the cosmopolitan character of the states set up by Arabs, Iranians and Turks.
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What were the effects of the Crusades on Europe and Asia?
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How were Islamic architectural forms different from those of the Roman Empire?
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Describe a journey from Samarqand to Damascus, referring to the cities on the route.
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Compare the civilisation of the Aztecs with that of the Mesopotamians.
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What are the new developments helping European navigation in the fifteenth century?
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Find the radian measure corresponding to the following degree measure:
25°
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Find the radian measure corresponding to the following degree measure:
– 47° 30'
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Find the radian measure corresponding to the following degree measure:
240°
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