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Question 1. Please explain why the Byzantine Empire continued to be a sovereign state for almost 1000 years after the fall of the Western Roman Empire, and please explain the long-term causes of the end of the Byzantine Empire. In your answer, please present specific facts to support your arguments.

Question 2. Please explain why the Abbasid Caliphate replaced the Umayyad Caliphate, and please explain why the Abbasid Caliphate was able to promote the Golden Age of Islam.

Question 3. Please evaluate the argument that the predominantly Muslim Delhi Sultanate and the predominantly Muslim Moghul Dynasty used the same regime maintenance methods as the predominantly Hindu Gupta Empire.

Question 4. Please explain why both the continental and island parts of Southeast Asia attracted Indians and Arabs during the Middle Ages, and attracted Western Europeans during the Early Modern Era. Please use specific examples to explain the activities of these foreign groups in Southeast Asia, and please explain how Southeast Asians responded by acquiescence and/or resistance (e.g., trade, religious conversion, the Srivijaya Empire, the Brunei Sultanate, etc.).

Question 5. Please explain why the Sui Dynasty was able to reunite the Chinese homeland into a single state, why the Tang Dynasty caused a flourishing of Chinese culture, and why the Song Dynasty was unable to preserve the unity of China when it was confronted by the Nomadic Dynasties.

Question 6. Please evaluate the argument that, when comparing Chinese influence in Vietnam, Korea, and Japan, the largest amount of influence occurred in Korea, and the smallest amount of influence occurred in Vietnam. Please use specific facts to support your arguments.

Question 7. Please use specific facts about technological, economic, and political history to evaluate the argument that the ENSO (also named "El Nino") weather pattern reduced the rate of technological advancement in the Mesoamerican and Andean Civilizations, and as a result, they did not invent military technologies that would have allowed them to permanently repulse the invasions by Spain during the 1500s.

Question 8. Please use specific facts to justify the argument that, during the Medieval Era (476 CE to 1402 CE), the Sub-Saharan African Civilizations significantly participated in cultural and economic exchanges with Europe and Asia. In your answer, please do not consider the Prehistoric Era (to 3200 BCE) and the Ancient Era (3200 BCE to 476 CE).

Question 9. Please evaluate the argument that economic and territorial gain were the primary motives for Western European participation in the Crusades. In your answer, please compare and contrast the motives for the Crusades and the motives for the Viking expansion.

Question 10. Please fully evaluate the argument that the Mongol Empire's legacy was not positive for the Afro-Eurasian continent.

Question 11. Please explain the causes and consequences of the rivalry between the Ottoman and Safavid Empires.

Question 12. Please explain the causes and consequences of the Renaissance. In your answer, please compare and contrast Scholasticism and Humanism, and please explain why the Reformation was a consequence of the Renaissance.

Question 13. Please explain the Triangle Trade, and please explain why both European nations and African nations willfully participated in this process despite its human rights violations.

Question 14. Please explain both the successes and failures of Spanish colonization in the Western Hemisphere during the 1400s and 1500s. In your answer, please do not consider activities that occurred after 1600.

Question 15. Lesson Notes 11 includes an essay that is entitled "The World Historiography of World History." After studying this essay, please evaluate the argument that it is inappropriate to apply Western European Civilization's analytical paradigms to other cultures. In your answer, please consider the written record, the oral folkloric record, the cultural imperative to write world history books, and the possible fallacy of Winston Churchill's statement that "the victors write history."

EXTRA CREDIT QUESTION

Question 16. Please evaluate the argument that the Ancient Egyptian Civilization had more respect for human rights than any other civilization that we have studied in HIS-131, World History I.