Section A: Early Societies
1. What do ancient stories tell us about the civilisation of
Mesopotamia?
2. Why would the early temple have been much like a house?
3. Why were mobile animal herders not necessarily a threat to town
life?
4. Whydo we say that it was not natural fertility and high levels of
food production that were the causesof early urbanisation?
Section B: Empire
1. Why do you think the Roman government stopped coining in
silver? And which metal did it begin to use for the production of
coinage?
2. Discuss the basic features of Roman society and economy.
3. Discuss the factors that led to the decline of the Roman empire.
4. Explain the main features of the slavery of the Roman empire.
5. Who were the mongols? How were they able to establisha vast
empire in the 13th and 14th centuries?
6. Why was trade so significant to mongols.
7. Explain the civil and military administration of mongols.
7. Explain the civil and military administration of mongols.
8. Why did Genghis Khan feel the need to fragment the Mongol
tribes into new social and military grouping?
Section C: Changing traditions
1. What was the function of medieval monasteries?
2. Why did knights become a distinct group and when did they
decline?
3. Explain the main features of feudalism. Trace the causes of
decline of feudalism.
4. How did long-term changes in population levels affect economy
and society in Europe
5. What were the features of humanist thought?
6. Why were Italian towns the first to experience the ideas of
humanism?
7. Which elements of Greek and Roman Culture were revived in the
fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?
8. What doyou mean by renaissance? What are the factors that led
to the renaissance?
Section D: Paths to modernisation
1. Difference between the native people of north and south
America.
2. What new food items were transmitted from South America to
the rest of the world?
3. How satisfactory is a museum gallery display in explaining the
culture of a community? Give examples from your own experience
of a museum.
4. Why was the history of the Australian native peoples left out of
history books
5. What did the frontier mean to America?
6. Who was sun yat san? Explain three principles.
7. Did Japan's policy of rapid industrialisation lead to warswith its
neighbours and destruction of the environment?
8. Discuss how daily life was transformed as Japan developed.
Locate and Label the following on world map
Iraq, Italy,France, Mongolia, China, Japan
Australia, North America,South America, England
Canada,Germany, Bagdadh