UNIT THREE STUDY GUIDE
The unit three exam for the remaining chapters will be Wednesday November 20th.
Chapters 10 and 15-Europe
1). What were the functions of merchant and artisan guilds?
2). What were the developments as a result of the Commercial Revolution
3). What was the Hanseatic League?
*4). Interpretive
5). What was the source of Western dynamism in the 14th and 15th centuries?
6). Compare medieval culture to Renaissance culture
7). What allowed Italy to become center of Renaissance
8). What is humanism?
9). What cultural achievement was the Renaissance known for?
10). Compare the Renaissance in Italy to the Islamic Middle East during the Abbasid empire.
11). What are the teachings of Martin Luther?
12). Why did support for Luther increase among German elite?
Chapter 11-America on the Eve of Invasion
*13). Map
*14). Interpretive
15). What was the degree of contact of the Americas with the rest of the world in the post-classical era?
*16). Quotation
17). What was the nature of Aztec economy?
*18) Interpretive
19). What is the practice of split inheritance
20). Similarity between Inca and Aztec
21). What existed in the Aztec, but was absent in the Inca?
22). Similarity between Venice and Tenochtitlan
Chapter 13-Sinification of Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
23). What was the purpose of the Taika Reforms?
24). What social group characterized Japanese feudalism?
25). What was the authority of the emperors in the Heian period?
26). Contrast between Japanese feudalism and Western European feudalism
27). Impact of the rise of the samurai on peasantry
28). What was a result of the fighting that brought down the Ashikaga Shogunate?
29). What aspect of sinification was retained by the Vietnamese after they gained independence?
30). What was the importance of Korean geography on East Asia?
Chapter 14-The Mongols
*31) Quotation
32). What are the positive effects of Ghengis Khan’s rule?
*33). Interpretive
34). What did Mongol rule restore?
35). Change in administration under the Mongols
36). Causes for the fall of the Yuan
37). What did Marco Polo’s writings result in?
*38). Quotation
39). Impact of Mongol rule on Russia
*40). Map