Assignment
Answer these essay questions:
How did societies around the world contend with their relative isolation between 1000 and 1200? What were the benefits and drawbacks of cultural and economic isolation during this time? How did isolation affect the Norse colony on Greenland and the cultures of North America? What evidence indicates that the civilizations of Mesoamerica influenced cultural developments in the North American Southwest and Cahokia? How did Japan and Europe overcome their isolation and emerge with powerful political, cultural, and economic systems?
How did increased trade across the Indian Ocean affect East Africa during the 11th Century? Why did Ethiopia recover from its "dark age?"
Why have relations between pastoralists and farmers been so hostile for much of history? How did the Islamic world, Christian Europe, and China deal with Steppeland invaders?
What were the effects of the crusades on Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world? Why did the Amoravids and Almohds fail to prevent the expansion of the Christian states in Spain? How did Islam take root in West Africa?
Answer all 4 essay question.