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UNIT 2 Exam REVIEW: REGIONAL INTERACTION, CHANGE AND STABILITY IN THE
EARLY MODERN WORLD, 1000-1400 AD
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Can you answer these questions?
A. Analyze regional relationships in Africa, Japan, China, and feudal Europe in order to determine the extent
to which they promoted continuity and change.
1. What were the effects of Islam and Trans-Saharan trade on West African trading empires?
2. Can you explain the reasons for the longevity of the Chinese dynastic and feudal systems?
3. What was the role of geographic characteristics, cultural diffusion, and isolationism in the development of the
Shogunate in Japan?
4. Can you describe the underlying causes for the political, social, and economic relationships in feudal Europe?
B. Analyze Mongol expansion in order to draw conclusions regarding its effects on culture, technological
change, and interregional relationships.
1. What were the changes, in Europe, caused by movement of resources, ideas, and products in Eurasia under Mongol
rule?
C. Examine the origins and consequences of the Black Plague in order to assess its impact on Western
Europe.
1. What were the economic, social, and religious consequences of the plague in Western Europe
D. Analyze the causes and consequences of the European Renaissance in order to evaluate its impact on art,
politics, and science.
1. What were the reasons the Renaissance began in Italy?
2. How were artistic changes symbols of new ideas about how to live life in Western Europe?
3. What was the influence of the Renaissance thinking on political and scientific thought in Europe?
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Key Vocabulary
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Buddhism
Chinese Dynastic Cycle
Confucianism
Crusade
Cultural diffusion
Daimyo
Daoism (Taoism)
Dynasty
Empire
Feudalism
Figurehead
Gothic
Humanism
Islam
Isolationism
Jihad
Legalism
Mandate of Heaven
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Manorialism
Mongol Peace
Piety
Power Vacuum
Relic
Renaissance
Samurai
Secular
Self-sufficiency
Shogun
Silk Road
Vanishing point
Yin and Yang
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