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This week we start a new section in our book, Part 2: Crossroads and Cultures, 500-1450 CE. This forum is all about the exciting developments in Chapter 8 Chapteter9
This forum officially worth 30 points, but you can get up to 35 points if you do extra and really get into it. You get up to ten points for introducing a topic (maximum of one topic). You get five points each time you give a thoughtful and particularly informative response to another student. Please limit each post to one paragraph, or two very short paragraphs.
Please do two things in this forum:
1) Please share a paragraph about one of the key items you see in Chapter 8 or Chapter 9, emphasizing how that person, event, trend, or concept is important to the era. You can use an item on one of the handouts, or anything you think is particularly important in either chapter. (For example, it could be “Charlemagne” or “Umayyad” in Chapter 8 or “Pure Land Buddhism” in Chapter 9.) Please make sure you discuss how the item comes up in the chapter. You could also discuss how it relates to major trends discussed in the Intro to Part 2 of our book.
2) Please also include a picture, a map, or a link to help out the class. I encourage students to share material from websites, as long as you make a clear connection to our reading.
3) Please respond to at least four other students. Add some information to what the student shared, or relate their key item to another key item you learned about. For example, if they wrote about the Christians in Byzantium, you could write about how they were similar and different from Christians in Armenia or Egypt. The key thing is to build on what the other person is saying.
