1st Semester:
- How was Rome a site of encounter?
- How did the environment and technological innovations affect the growth and contraction of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, and Medieval Christendom?
- How did the Roman Empire gain and maintain power over people and territories?
- How did Christianity develop, change over time, and spread through the empire and to other cultures?
- Why did the Roman Empire fall?
- How did Islam develop and change over time? How did Islam spread to multiple cultures?
- How did the Muslim empires and institutions help different regions of Afroeurasia become more interconnected?
- Was there more trade with peace and tolerance or more conflict between religious groups?
- How did the environment affect the development and expansion of the Ghana and Mali empires and the trade networks that connected them to the rest of Afroeurasia?
- Why was Mali a site of encounter? What were the effects of the exchanges at Mali?
- How did Indian monks, nuns, merchants travelers, and empires from what is now modern India and other parts of South Asia spread religious ideas and practices and cultural styles of art and architecture to Central and Sutheast Asia?
- How did the religions of Hinduism and Buddhism spread and change over time?
