1) How did changes in agriculture contribute to commercial and industrial growth in Eurasia?
How did Christian, Jewish, and Muslim merchants organize long-distance trade?
How did east-west trade routes between Asia and the Mediterranean change?
How was the economy different in the Hawaiian Islands?
2) How did Christianity contribute to the rise of powerful monarchies in Europe?
How did popes of the Catholic Church and these monarchs interact?
How did Latin Christendom expand its power in the Holy Land, in the Spanish peninsula, and in Eastern Europe?
In what different ways did the Mongols rule China, Iran, and Russia?
How were the Christian military orders different from the rest of Latin Christendom?
3) How did the Black Death affect society, the economy, and culture in Latin Christendom and the Islamic world?
How did Europe's economic growth begin to surpass that of the Islamic world?
How did trade spread Islam in Southeast Asia?
How did the development of the samurai warrior class make Japan different from these other cultures?