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Part 1:

Write answers to each of the following short-form questions:

Who you think was the greatest explorer in history? List three reasons for your choice.

Do you think there are any situations today where you could become the victim of the plague or any other contagious disease killing people? Explain your answer.

Why do you think Leonardo dissected human bodies even though he wasn’t a doctor?

How do you personally feel about Cortes: was he a hero or a villain?  Explain why you think so.

1. Why do you think Elizabeth I didn’t get married? Do you think it was a good idea that she didn’t marry? Explain your answer.
2. What was the most important discovery made on Captain Cook’s voyages? Explain your answer.
3. What do you think was Issac Newton’s greatest discovery or invention? Explain your choice.
4. Why do you think the people succeeded in the 1790s in overthrowing the entire system of the French government and the dominance of the nobles when the system had existed for hundreds of years?  Explain your answer.
5. Why did some Germans hate the Jews? Explain your answer.
6. Summarize what happened on “Crystal Night” and describe why it happened.
7. Which Impressionist artist appeals most to you? Explain why they appeal to you.
8. Hot air balloons were used by armies in several countries including France, and in the U.S. by the Union army during the Civil War. What military advantage might the use of hot air balloons have for an army?
9. Part 2:
10. Write an essay on the write an essay on the designs, inventions, or sculptures that most impress you from Leonardo da Vinci.  Explain your choices.
11. Minimum Word Count: 800 words.
12. Part 3:

Under the title “Geography of the Holocaust”, write an essay about which countries were involved and describe what role each of these countries played in the Holocaust.

World History

The Travels Of Marco Polo

In 1271, Niccolò and Maffeo Polo decided to return to China accompanied by Niccolò’s 17-year-old son, Marco. The two experienced traders saw that Marco was strong and eager to make the journey to the court of Kublai Khan where the brothers had already spent one year. The journey through Asia took more than three and one-half years and was filled with danger. They traveled through the Caucasus Mountains, across Persia and Armenia, through passes in the Pamir Mountains, and across the Gobi Desert.

Marco kept careful journals of all the wonders he saw and the stories he heard. Some of the stories he heard from traders and natives may have been entirely or mostly fiction, but his observations have generally been proven correct. Oil does seep from the earth in some parts of Asia, and people had learned to use it to treat the mange, a skin disease in animals, and for lighting lamps. The hard, black burning stones he saw were coal.

The stories he told of China’s wonders and the palaces of Kublai Khan were largely true, although he might have exaggerated some to stress the great wealth and importance if Chin They did have paper money, a pony express system for sending messages, and the Chinese did bathe frequently, an idea that seemed strange to Europeans who rarely bathed. Marco described animals that had never been known in Europe before, such as the crocodile and the rhinoceros.

Marco Polo worked as a governor of a province and an observer for Kublai Khan, who trusted him and admired his observations and judgments. The emperor did not want the Polos to leave China, and they stayed for 17 years before he allowed them to go as ambassadors for him, delivering a princess as a bride for a Persian king.

The Polos weren’t even recognized in Venice or their own home when they returned. They held a party for their friends and tore their clothes into which they had sewn jewels and gold. Two years after his return, Marco Polo was captured during a naval battle and imprisoned. He met the writer Rustichello in prison where he told his stories to him and other fellow prisoners. The Travels of Marco Polo was published after his release from prison in 1299.