600 C.E.–1450
- Major Comparisons and Snapshots
- Japanese and European feudalism
- Developments in political and social institutions in both eastern and western Europe
- Compare the role and function of cities in major societies
- Compare Islam and Christianity
- Gender systems and changes, such as the impact of Islam
- Aztec Empire and Inca Empire
- Compare European and sub-Saharan African contacts with the Islamic world
- Examples of What You Need to Know
- Arab caliphate, but not the transition from Umayyad to 'Abbasid
- Mamluks, but not Almohads
- Feudalism, but not specific feudal monarchs such as Richard I
- Manorialism, but not the three-field system
- Crusading movement and its impact, but not specific crusades
- Viking exploration, expansion, and impact, but not individual explorers
- Mongol expansion and its impact, but not details of specific khanates
- Papacy, but not particular popes
- Indian Ocean trading patterns, but not Gujarati merchants