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Q1: Through the voyage of the treasure fleet, China became a leading country in terms of trade, exchanging valuables with countries overseas. The voyages also led to Chinese people exploring distant lands, mapping sea routes and accumulation of geographical information
Q2: Zheng’s legacy included the exploration of Southeast Asia, which led to immigration and eventual occupation of the area by the Chinese. He also brought knowledge on sea routes, medicine and rare plants and animals.
Q3: Mendelssohn sought to influence Jewish religious thoughts in his time by arguing that Enlightenment teaching was good for Jewish religion and thought, as it complements, and strengthened religion.
Q4: Mendelssohn’s ideas was different from the French Enlightenment in that his ideas and thought refused to entertain conflict between religion and reason and his thoughts always supported established religions instead of attacking them like the French.
Q5: The speaker argues that the Tahitians are equal to the Europeans because they are all ‘children of nature’. He argues that the Tahitian way of life is not inferior to the Europeans’, but special in its own way.
Q6: According to the speaker, the Tahitian way of life is the good life based on simplicity, mutual respect, communal ownership of property, and following the instincts of nature. The Tahitian way of life is the best as it respects human life, is free from corruption, and is innocent.
Q7: The speech by the Tahitian man represents Diderot’s enlightenment ideas especially when the man recognizes that the Europeans only came to explore the land and would later come to enslave the inhabitants. The man questions the Europeans moral authority in undermining the freedom of the Tahitians. However, the way the man defends his way of life and acceptance to adopt simplicity shows lack of enlightenment.
Q8: The account speaks about a Tahitian arguing against the Europeans who want to colonize them and pollute them with their ‘crazy’ customs. However, Diderot’s critics would argue that civilization helped to open the world and enlighten people living the basic types of life to embrace more productive and globally fulfilling ways of life embraced by all human beings.
Q9: Olaudah’s life as a slave entailed many instances of being sold to many masters. He served his masters for many years carrying out several errands. However, Olaudah’s life became atypical to a slave’s as he received education, was baptized as a Christian, he served in the Royal navy, and his master Robert King used to pay him when he worked for him as a clerk.
Q10: Equiano had a great desire of learning the white culture and invested time in education and Christianity. He was an entrepreneur and a trader, and even sourced for his own money to buy his freedom, paid his tutors to teach him mathematics, hairdressing, and playing the French horn, and had a strong character.
Q11: Harrem compares to other powerful women in that she had opportunity to contribute to the governance of her husband’s empire. She acted as the watchdog of the empire’s capital in the absence of her husband, provided advice to the emperor, undertook initiatives to maintain peace between Ottoman Empire and other nations, and successfully fulfilled her role as prince mother and imperial wife.
Q12: Harrem was Polish by nationality and used her position to help the sultan contact the Polish rulers. She used correspondence to maintain peace between the Ottoman and Polish nations.
Q13: The script by Chelebi shows how religion and imperial authority played a major role in the social life of the Ottomans, by having a great say on what people should embrace in the society. The Islamic religion and the imperial Ottoman authority viewed tobacco and coffee as substances that were evil. Although religion and imperial authority tried to reduce the use of these substances, people used them more.
Q14: The Islamic jurists during Chelebi’s time used simple reason to resist the usage of tobacco and coffee because of their addictive nature that made them appear intolerable. Religion was against anything viewed uncommon and the Islamic jurists made laws of Fatwa to deter the use of these substances.
Q15: Katib Chelebi was open-minded in his judgment to societal behaviors. This is visible in his judgment on the permissibility of using tobacco. In his reasoning, he provided legal, religious, and free thinking to determine whether the use of ...