Short Answer Assignment
Instructions: Please complete the following assignment. For all questions, please respond in at least two complete sentences.
-What was so special about corn in the civilizations of the Americas?
-How did the treatment of women in African societies demonstrate the mixing of cultures in nations south of the Sahara Desert?
-How was the Mayan civilization like the civilizations of ancient Greece and China?
-Why is charting an exact history of early American peoples so difficult?
-How did African societies keep their own ways in the face of changes from the Christian and Islamic religions?
-How did the Islamic and Mongols conquests we examined last week influence the Spanish conquest of the Americas?
-From this week's presentation, what are the two ways a state of war can affect how a society treats women in terms of rights and power?