HIS 111
Questions to Consider while reading the textbook
and studying a unit's material
 
 
Unit 1    Introduction
  • How has geography influenced the course of history?
  • What is history?
Unit 2    Pre-History
  • What role did technological innovation play in the development of early humankind?
  • What was important about the shift to the use of systematic agriculture in the Neolithic period?
Unit 3    Ancient Near East
  • Why did cities first form in Mesopotamia?
  • What enabled ancient Egypt to exist for so long a period of time as a cultural unit?
Unit 4    Classical Mediterranean
  • What factors contributed to the eventual destruction of the Roman Empire?
  • Why were the Ancient Greeks so interested in questions of philosophy?
Unit 5    Classical South Asia
  • How and why did Harappan (Indus River) civilization end?
  • Why did Buddhism arise as a religious reform movement?
Unit 6    Mesoamerica
  • Why did the large-scale civilization emerge somewhat later in the Americas than in Eurasia?
  • Why did Aztec civilization expand so quickly in the fifteenth century?
Unit 7    Classical China
  • What were some of the social and political characteristics of classical Chinese civilization of the Han Empire?
  • Compare and contrast the origin, development and characteristics of Buddhism, Christianity and Confucianism.
Unit 8    Russia
  • What were some of the distinctive features of early Russian civilization?
  • What were the distinctive features of Byzantine civilization?
Unit 9    Islam and Empire
  • How did Islam continue the traditions of Christianity and Judaism?
  • Was the Islamic empire of the Abbasid era a revised version of the Roman empire?
Unit 10    African Society
  • What were some of the distinctive features of early Ghana and Mali?
  • Was there an early "African" cultural or social pattern?
Unit 11    Mongols
  • Compare and contrast the origin, development and characteristics of Islam, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism and Confucianism.
  • Why were the Mongols able to create such a large empire?
Unit 12    Japan
  • What were some of the characteristics of early Japanese history?
Unit 13    Charlemagne and the European Middle Ages
  • Why did the center of Western civilization migrate from the Mediterranean to Northwestern Europe?
  • What impact did the Crusades have on the development of European civilization?
Unit 14    Renaissance, Reformation and Exploration
  • Why did the Renaissance begin in Italy?
  • Why did the Protestant reform movements in Christianity succeed in the early sixteenth century?
Unit 15    Final Exam
  • How has geography influenced the course of history?
  • What is history?

 

 

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