Exam 14: The Revenge of Nature: Plague, Cold, and the Limits of Disaster in the Fourteenth Century

The devastation of the plague could also unleash new creative forces where it hit.Did freedom from the plague have corresponding costs?

Explain the process of climate change and its consequences on agriculture and habitation in Europe and Eurasia in the fourteenth century.

What was the most effective remedy against the plague?

How did Pope Clement VI view the role of Jews in the advent of the plague?

The most important buildings in the city of Chan Chan were the

Why is it unlikely that the frequent epidemics in China between the 1320s and 1360s were the bubonic plague familiar to modern medicine?

In the early thirteenth century,the legendary King Sundiata founded the Kingdom of

What sorts of evidence tell us about climate change in past times? How does using such evidence complicate the traditional job of the historian as an interpreter of texts?

As a result of the climatic changes during the early fourteenth century,

The Hohokam civilization

How did Ibn Battuta describe the court of Sultan Muhammad Ibn Tughluq?

King Hayan Wuruk was referred to by his subjects as

One area that became increasingly affluent and prosperous during the fourteenth century was

Compare the moral and social effects of the plague on European and Muslim societies.

What areas were outside of the zone affected by these changes,and what benefits did their relative isolation provide them?

In China,the rise of the idea of a new Buddha who would inaugurate a golden age and give power to his followers led to

The term Bubonic refers to the plague symptom of

In the Mongol Empire,the plague had the effect of

Why were Pacific societies unaffected by the plague and what new developments took place in the Pacific Ocean region during this period?

From 1318 on,the Japanese Emperor Godaigo