1. What was the significance of the advent of agriculture? Provide examples from the reading and/or lectures in support of your answer.
2. Describe Persian civilization around 500 BCE and discuss how the Persian Empire differed from earlier Empires such as the Egyptian and Assyrian?
3. What were the consequences of the ninth-century invasions?
4. What were the causes and consequences of the Crusades?
5. What roles did monks and nuns play in medieval life?
6. What led to Europe's economic growth and reurbanization between 1100 and 1300?
7. How did climate change shape the late Middle Ages?
8. How did the Black Death reshape European Society?