Which elements of Greek and Roman culture were revived in the 14th and 15th centuries ?
The religious, artistic and literary elements of Greek and Roman culture were revived in the 14th and 15th centuries.
Compare the Venetian idea of good government with those in contemporary France.
Compare details of Italian architecture of this period with Islamic architecture.
Why were Italian towns the first to experience the ideas of humanism?
What were the features of humanist thought?
Write a careful account of how the world appeared different to seventeenth century Europeans.
Look at the diagram showing the positive feedback mechanism on page 13. Can you list the inputs that went into tool making? What were the processes that were strengthened by tool making?
Why do we say that it was not natural fertility and high levels of food production that were the causes of early urbanisation?
What were the features of the lives of the Bedouins in the early seventh century?
Why was trade so significant to the Mongols?
Describe two features of early feudal society in France.
Compare the civilization of the Aztecs with that of the Mesopotamians.
How did Britain’s involvement in wars from 1793 to 1815 affect British industries?
Comment on any points of difference between the native peoples of South and North America.
What were the major developments before the Meiji restoration that made it possible for Japan to modernise rapidly?
Humans and mammals such as monkeys and apes have certain similarities in behaviour and anatomy. This indicates that humans possibly evolved from apes. List these resemblances in two columns under the headings of (a) behaviour and (b) anatomy. Are there any differences that you think are noteworthy?
Look at the diagram showing the positive feedback mechanism on page 13. Can you list the inputs that went into tool making? What were the processes that were strengthened by tool making?
Do you think that Mao Zedong and the Communist Party of China were successful in liberating China and laying the basis for its current success?
Why did knights become a distinct group and when did they decline?
Compare the conditions of life for a French serf and a Roman slave.
Discuss the arguments advanced in favour of the regional continuity model of human origins. Do you think it provides a convincing explanation of the archaeological evidence? Give reasons for your answer.
Why do we say that it was not natural fertility and high levels of food production that were the causes of early urbanisation?
How did the discovery of South America lead to the development of European colonialism? HOTS
Give reasons for Spain and Portugal being the first in the 5th century to venture across the Atlantic.
What was the function of medieval monasteries?
Write an account of the journey of an African boy of seventeen captured and taken to Brazil as a slave.