Contrast the Heian court culture with the feudal culture of the Kamakura and Ashikaga eras.
Contrast the Heian court culture with the feudal culture of the Kamakura and Ashikaga eras.
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1. Contrast the Heian court culture with the feudal culture of the Kamakura and Ashikaga eras.
2. Discuss Arabian society before Islam. What were the prime targets of the Qur’anic message in that society?
3. Trace the history of Christianity to the reign of the emperor Charlemagne. How did the church become a political power in the Western Roman Empire?
What were the defining features of feudalism? Is a feudal society a “backward” society?
4. How did the Franks become the dominant force in western Europe? What were the characteristics of Charlemagne’s rule? Why did his empire break apart?
Discuss the conversion of subject populations in the early centuries of Islamic empire. What were incentives and obstacles to conversion?