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Review Items for Midterm Geography Quiz (PDF)

Midterm Exam

Second session of Lecture 9

  1. A. Enter on the map the following places: [ca. 15 minutes]

    Amu Darya
    Bactria
    Bamiyan
    Herat
    Ili Valley
    Karakorum
    Kashgar
    Kazakhstan
    Samarkand
    Syr Darya
    Taklamakan Desert
    Tarim Basin
    Turfan
    Urumqi
    Xi'an

    B. Draw the approximate location of two of the main Silk Routes.

     
  2. Describe the significance for Central Eurasia of five of the following in three to five sentences each: [ca. 30 minutes]

    Scythians
    Sogdians
    Manichaeans
    Nestorians
    Uighurs
    Tang
    Han Wudi
    An Lushan [Rokhshan]
    Li Shimin [Tang Taizong]
    Peter the Great

     
  3. Essay: This course looks primarily at connections between different peoples, places, and cultures. Choose one of the religions and one of the commodities below and describe how and why they moved across Eurasia. Discuss their origin, the routes they moved along, the kinds of peoples that used them, and the periods during which trade or religious belief flourished the most. Be as specific as possible, giving times, places, and causes of movement. (You need not connect the commodities and religions together, but you get extra credit if you can!)[ca. 45 minutes]

     

    Commodities

    Fur
    Horses
    Silk
    Silver and Gold
    Sheep and Wool

    Religions

    Buddhism
    Christianity
    Confucianism
    Daoism
    Islam
    Manichaeanism
    Shamanism