100 points !!

*) The section “Faith and Cultures in the Worlds Apart” discusses the development of belief systems. What differences occur in belief systems versus organized religion? Which belief (religion vs. system) resonates with you more and why?

*) Compare the relationship between the political (caliphate) and religious (ulama/sharia) authorities within Islam to the dynamic of another civilization from this period.

*) Compare and contrast the way in which the Tang interacted with foreign ideas with the treatment of foreign ideas within the Islamic world and European Christendom.

*) Analyze and describe the various forms of Christianity that developed in Europe during this period
● Roman Catholic Church
● Monasticism
● Viking Christendom
● Greek Orthodoxy