Friday

 Today - we are going to practice SAQs. Remember you have a test on Monday. It should be short.

 

First I want you to do this question:

In one to three paragraphs, explain the similarities and differences in state building in different parts of the world between 1200 and 1450.

SAQ - practice the Marco Polo question on 63 and the question below:

“In the twelfth year of his reign, to regulate foreign trade, Song Emperor Taizu [972 c.e.] decided to appoint a superintendent of maritime trade in the southern port city of Guangzhou, and afterward other superintendents in the ports of Hangzhou and Mingzhou as well. The emperor then appointed another superintendent to oversee the activities of all Arab, Sumatran, Javanese, Bornean, Philippine, and mainland Southeast Asian barbarians whose trade passed through China. These maritime merchants, both Chinese and barbarian, would usually take from China the following goods: gold, silver, strings of coins, lead, tin, many-colored silk, and porcelain. They would usually bring into China spices and aromatics, rhinoceros horn, ivory, coral, embers, pearls, fine steel, sea-turtle leather, tortoise shell, gemstones, foreign cloth, ebony wood, and other such things.”

History of the Song, official history of the Song dynasty, commissioned by the Mongol Chief Minister of Emperor Shundi of the Yuan (Mongol) dynasty,  In your response, be sure to address all parts of the question. Use complete sentences; an outline or bulleted list alone is not acceptable.

Use the passage to answer all parts of the question that follows.

a) Identify ONE claim made in the passage about the policies of Chinese rulers.

b) Identify ONE way in which the passage illustrates the economic development of China under the Song dynasty.

 

Question 2

Item 2

“The wise and noble Queen Blanche [of Castile], the mother of King Louis IX of France [reigned 1226-1270], had infinite goodness. She ruled the kingdom of France with such skill and care until her son was old enough to accede to the throne that no man could have done better. Even when he was grown up, she proved herself so worthy that she remained at the head of his advisors and nothing was decided without her consent. She even followed her son into battle.

On one occasion during the king’s minority, she scolded the Count of Champagne for having rebelled against his lord, the king. On hearing her wise words, he gazed at Queen Blanche and was captivated by her great virtue and respectability, despite the fact that she had long passed the flower of her youth. The count was so suddenly overcome with love for her that he didn’t know what to do. From that moment on, he adored her for the rest of his life.”

Christine de Pizan, French female author, The Book of the City of the Ladies, a collection of stories about famous women in history, written circa 1405

In your response, be sure to address all parts of the question. Use complete sentences; an outline or bulleted list alone is not acceptable.

 

Use the passage  to answer all parts of the question that follows.

a) Identify ONE claim made in the passage.

b) Identify ONE way in which the passage illustrates the political development of Europe in the period 1200–1450.