HIST 122
Spring 2014
Dr. Hutton
NVC
Weekly Assignment #10
Due: Thurs., 5/8
Read Tignor, Chapters 10, pp. 363-382 and 393-396 (2nd ed. pp. 417-437 and 452-454), &
answer these questions:
1. What factors led to the huge increase in sea trade between 1000 and 1300?
2. What are entrepôts and how did they contribute to trade? What were the 4 main
anchorages of the sea trade in this period?
3. How did the Empire of Mali become linked to the Muslim world? What were the results of
that link?
4. How was the East African coast integrated into the trade networks?
5. How did Sufism help the religion of Islam spread?
6. What roles did the Turks play in the fragmented Muslim world after 1000?
7. After the Muslim world was no longer politically unified, what religious and cultural
movements helped maintain and spread religious and cultural unity?
8. Why is India called a cultural mosaic?
9. What was the Delhi Sultanate? What policy did the Turkish rulers have towards Hinduism?
10. What areas did Western European Christians attack during the Crusades? What were their
motives?
Read Fulcher of Chartres, “Pope Urban Calls for a Crusade,” in the “Crusades Perspectives”
document on the course website and answer these questions:
11. According to Pope Urban II, what tortures did the Turkish Muslims (“a race from the
kingdom of the Persians”) inflict on Christians?
12. What specific arguments did Urban use to convince his audience to go free Jerusalem?
13. Who should not go, according to Urban? How were the crusaders supposed to sign up?
Read Geoffrey Malaterra, “The Deeds of Count Roger,” in “Crusades Perspectives” on the course
website, and answer this question:
14. What were Roger’s motives for conquering Sicily from its Muslim rulers?
Read Usamah Ibn Munqidh, An Arab-Syrian Gentleman, and answer these questions:
15. Who was Usamah Ibn Munqidh? What was the date? What was his perspective? Who was
his audience?
16. List one piece of evidence that suggests that Usamah did not like the Franks.
17. List two pieces of evidence that suggest that Usamah knew individual Franks and got along
well with them.
Read Ibn Jubayr, “Description of Sicily,” and answer these questions:
18. Who was Ibn Jubayr? What was the date? What was his perspective? Who was his
audience?
19. List one piece of evidence that suggests that Muslims and Christians were divided by
religious conflict in Sicily.
20. List one piece of evidence that suggests that Muslims and Christians found ways to
cooperate in Sicily.
21. How did King Roger II of Sicily create a multicultural court?
Read Emmanuel Piloti, “Description of Cairo,” and answer these questions:
22. Who was Piloti? What was the date? What was his perspective?
23. List one piece of evidence that suggests Christians had trade relations with Muslims in
Cairo.