HIST 122
Spring 2014
Dr. Hutton
NVC
Weekly Assignment #9
Due: Thurs., 5/1
Read Tignor, Chapters 10 & 11, pp. 340-348, 352-60 and 389-96, (2nd ed., pp. 388-397, 402-413,
and 446-454) & answer these questions:
1. How was the Tang dynasty cosmopolitan? What other areas did it influence?
2. How did the Sui and Tang dynasties rebuild Chinese unity?
3. What did the Tang adopt instead of a single universal religion? What spiritual mosaic did
they use? What made China so integrated?
4. What was the civil service examination system, and why was it important for Chinese
administration?
5. How did the Empress Wu come to power? What did she accomplish in her reign?
6. What major changes brought about the Economic Revolution in Tang/Song China?
7. Why did the Tang emperors suppress Buddhism?
8. How did Charlemagne use his connection with the Christian (catholic) Church to build his
empire? Why did he name it after Rome?
9. How did monasticism and the pope help spread Christianity through northern Europe?
10. What was the Viking’s secret weapon? What areas did they affect?
11. What areas were converted by Greek Orthodox missionaries from the Byzantine Empire?
How were their beliefs different from Roman Catholic practices?
12. What power did knights have in Western Europe and what was their relationship to the
peasants?
13. What was feudalism?
14. Why did some peasants move to eastern Europe?
15. How did culture in Russia differ from culture in western Europe?
16. How did the Church in Europe affect lay people’s lives?
17. What areas did Western European Christians attack during the Crusades? What were
their motives?
18. Why was Urban II’s speech a polemic? Why do historians have to be careful about using
chronicles as primary sources?
19. What were the effects of the Crusades on most Christian and Muslim people and their
rulers?
20. What changed in Spain and Sicily?