Describe a journey from Samarqand to Damascus, referring to the cities on the route.
Journey from Samarqand to Damascus had a lot of cities in its route. Samarqand was located in the North east of the Islamic state and Damascus was situated in the centre (Syria). A traveller journeying from Samarqand to Damascus had to pass through the cities of Merv, Nishapur, and Samarra etc.
What were the features of the lives of the Bedouins in the early seventh century?
What were the effects of the Crusades on Europe and Asia?
Give examples of the cosmopolitan character of the states set up by Arabs, Iranians and Turks.
How were Islamic architectural forms different from those of the Roman Empire?
What is meant by the term ‘Abbasid revolution’?
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?
Why was trade so significant to the Mongols?
Describe two features of early feudal society in France.
Which elements of Greek and Roman culture were revived in the 14th and 15th centuries ?
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?
Compare the conditions of life for a French serf and a Roman slave.
Why did knights become a distinct group and when did they decline?
Other than the use of English, what other features of English economic and social life do you notice in 19th century USA?
What were the features of humanist thought?
What were the new developments helping European navigation in the 15th century?
Why do we say that it was not natural fertility and high levels of food production that were the causes of early urbanisation?
Which elements of Greek and Roman culture were revived in the 14th and 15th centuries ?
Imagine and describe a day in the life of a craftsman in a medieval French town.
What were the Sun Yat-sen’s Three Principles?
How did the Qing dynasty try and meet the challenge posed by the Western powers?