Cross Cultural Interaction 1000-1500

1. Cross Cultural Interaction 1000-1500

2. MAP 20.1 The regional states of medieval Europe, 1000-1300 C.E. • Page: 519

3. MAP 18.1 Turkish empires and their neighbors about 1210 C.E • Page: 476

4. MAP 18.3 Tamerlane's empire about 1405 C.E. • Page: 488

6. Cross Cultural Interaction 1000-1500 Identify the most significant land and sea routes in the fourteenth century. What societies tended to control and profit from these routes?

7. MAP 22.1 Travel and trade from the twelfth to the fourteenth century. • Page: 576

8. Cross Cultural Interaction 1000-1500 Which religion had the greater international impact during this period, Christianity or Islam? Explain.

9. John of Montecorvino on his mission to China, 1291. “…I have gradually bought on hundred and fifty boys, the children of pagan parents and of ages varying form seven to eleven, who had never learned any religion. These boys I have baptized, and I have taught them Greek and Latin after our manner. Also I have written out Psalters for them, with thirty hymnals and breviaries [prayer books]. By help of these, eleven of the boys already know our service and form a choir and take their weekly turn of duty as they do in convents, whether I am there or not…. Indeed if I had but two of three comrades to aide me, it is possible that the emperor khan himself would have been baptized by this time. I have myself grown old and grey, more with toil and trouble than with years, for I am not more than fifty-eight. I have already translated into the language and script the New Testament. ”

10. Cross Cultural Interaction 1000-1500 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? What were the social and economic outcomes of the plague?

11. Cross Cultural Interaction 1000-1500 How did the Ming dynasty rebuild the economy of China?

12. Cross Cultural Interaction 1000-1500 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?

13. Cross Cultural Interaction 1000-1500 What were some of the distinctive elements of the artistic Renaissance of Western Europe in the fifteenth century?

14. This is a photograph of Filippo Brunelleschi’s dome on the cathedral of Florence. What influences do we see here?

15. In what way did Leonardo da Vinci’s two dimensional drawings reflect three dimensions of real life?

17. What was unique about Donatello’s techniques in sculpture?

18. Cross Cultural Interaction 1000-1500 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?

20. Cross Cultural Interaction 1000-1500 What were the Portuguese objectives in the exploration of the coast of west Africa? What did they accomplish?

21. MAP 22.2 Chinese and European voyages of exploration, 1405-1498. • Page: 596

22. Cross Cultural Interaction 1000-1500 Identify the positive and negative consequences of cross-cultural interaction during the historical period 1000-1500 C.E. Overall, do you think the positive effects outweighed the negative effects? Consider and discuss specific historical evidence from China, Islam, and Europe to support your point of view.