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'If history relies upon written records produced by city-based literati, nomadic societies will always receive a hostile representation.' Would you agree with this statement? Does it explain the reason why Persian chronicles produced such inflated figures of casualties resulting from Mongol campaigns?
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Keeping the nomadic element of the Mongol and Bedouin societies in mind, how, in your opinion, did their respective historical experiences differ? What explanations would you suggest account for these difference?
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How does the following account enlarge upon the character of the Pax Mongolica created by the Mongols by the middle of the thirteenth century'?
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Describe two features of early feudal society in France.
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How did long term changes in population levels affect economy and society in Europe?
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Why did knights become a distinct group, and when did they decline?
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What was the function of medieval monasteries?
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Imagine and describe a day in the life of a craftsman in a medieval French town.
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Compare the conditions of life for a French serf and a Roman slave.
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Which elements of Greek and Roman culture were revived in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?
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Compare the details of Italian architecture of the period with Islamic architecture.
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Why were Italian towns the first to experience the ideas of humanism?
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Compare the Venetian idea of good government with those in contemporary France.
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What were the features of humanist thought?
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Write a careful account of how the world appeared different to seventeenth-century Europeans.
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Give reasons for Spain and Portugal being the first in the fifteenth century to venture across Atlantic.
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What new food items were transmitted from South America to the rest of the world?
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Write an account of the journey of an African boy of seventeen captured and taken to Brazil as a slave.
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How did the 'discovery' of South America lead to the development of European colonialism?
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How did Britain's involvement in wars from 1793 to 1815 affect British industries?
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