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Identify the most significant land and sea routes in the fourteenth century. What societies tended to control and profit from these routes? |
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What was the role of religion in the cultural interactions of this era? Which religion had the greater international impact, Christianity or Islam? Explain. |
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Give some specific examples of agricultural and technological diffusion along the trade routes. |
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Summarize the origins and the progress of the bubonic plague of the fourteenth century. Which regions were hit the hardest? Which regions were largely spared? |
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What were the social and economic outcomes of the plague? |
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How did the Ming dynasty rebuild the economy of China? |
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Note the kind of state to emerge in the fifteenth century in northern Italy, France, England, and Spain. Which was the most powerful state at this time? |
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What were some of the distinctive elements of the artistic Renaissance of western Europe in the fifteenth century? |
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How were the Ming Chinese able to establish a forceful presence in the Indian Ocean in the fifteenth century? When and why did this presence cease? |
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What were the Portuguese objectives in the exploration of the coast of west Africa? What did they accomplish? |
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What did Columbus hope to accomplish when he set forth across the Atlantic in 1492? What did he achieve? |
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