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?
Why would the early temple have been much like a house?
What do ancient stories tell us about the civilisation of Mesopotamia?
Imagine an encounter in California in about 1880 between four people: a former African slave, a Chinese labourer, a German who had come out in the Gold Rush, and a native of the Hopi tribe, and narrate their conversation.
What were the Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles?
How did long-term changes in population levels affect economy and society in Europe
Why did knights become a distinct group and when did they decline?
Why was the history of the Australian native peoples left out of the history books?
What were the effects of the Crusades on Europe and Asia?
Discuss the extent to which (a) hunting and (b) constructing shelters would have been facilitated by the use of language. What other modes of communication could have been used for these activities?
Compare the conditions of life for a French serf and a Roman slave.