Check Your Understanding Questions
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Why did the Yuan leaders select China as the center of their empire?
2
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Why did England and France engage in the series of conflicts known as the Hundred Years’ War?
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What events weakened the power of the papacy in western Europe in the fourteenth century?
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What types of methods have historical climatologists used to learn about the history of climate change?
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What are some key differences between fourteenth-century and modern travel patterns?
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How were different regions affected by the climate changes of the Little Ice Age?
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What role did trade and commercial networks play in the spread of the bubonic plague?
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How did responses to the plague differ in Christian Europe and the Muslim Middle East?
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What conditions made populations more vulnerable to infectious disease?
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How did the social structures and hierarchies that defined much of western medieval Europe shift in the aftermath of the Black Death?
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How did the calamities of the fourteenth century affect religious life in Afro-Eurasia?