Contacts and conflicts; the Crucible: Eurasian Crisis of the 13th and 14th centuries

This is two parts assignment:

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Assignment: PART 1

1. How did societies around the world contend with their relative isolation between 1000 and 1200? What
   were the benefits and drawbacks of cultural and economic isolation
   during this time? How did isolation affect the Norse colony on Greenland
   and the cultures of North America? What evidence indicates that the
   civilizations of Mesoamerica influenced cultural developments in the
   North American Southwest and Cahokia? How did Japan and Europe overcome
   their isolation and emerge with powerful political, cultural, and
   economic systems?
2. How did increased trade across the Indian Ocean affect East Africa during the 11^th Century? Why did Ethiopia recover from its “dark age?”
3. Why
   have relations between pastoralists and farmers been so hostile for
   much of history? How did the Islamic world, Christian Europe, and China
   deal with Steppeland invaders?
4. What
   were the effects of the crusades on Western Europe, Byzantium, and the
   Islamic world? Why did the Amoravids and Almohds fail to prevent the
   expansion of the Christian states in Spain? How did Islam take root in
   West Africa?

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Assignment: Part 2

1. Write
   an essay on the rise and expansion of the Mongol Empire. What impact
   did Mongol have on the different nations and empires, culture &
   traditions, economic, and political systems that prevailed during that
   time? Describe the pioneering and path-breaking legacy that the Mongol
   empire created? Why did Mongol power weaken in the 14^th Century? How did this affect state-building and political power in India, Southeast Asia, and Japan?
2. What
   were the long -term effects of climate change and plague that began in
   the 14th Century? Who were among the long-term winners and losers from
   the plague? Why did some Europeans blame the Jews for the Black Death?
   How did the contemporaries grapple with the plague? What were the social
   and political effects of plague in China, Islamic world and Western
   Europe?
3. How did the world recover in the late 14th and 15th Centuries? How did the Russian and Ottoman Empires expand during the 14^th and 15^th Centuries? Why did China turn away from maritime expansion in the 14^th Century?
   Why was Western Europe motivated to try to expand overseas? What roles
   did geography and culture play in European expansion overseas?
4. Write
   a brief essay on your understanding of medieval European art and
   science? How does it contribute to the visions of Western society and
   Western civilization?