Unit 7: Paper 2 — Innovation and Transformation
Topic 7.1: Why did new innovations emerge? Questions
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What was the House of Wisdom (Bayt al-Hikma) in Abbasid Baghdad?
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What mainly drove Meiji Japan's technological modernisation from 1868?
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Which environmental resource gave Britain a key advantage for industrialisation from the 1760s?
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According to this thematic study, what was the key difference in the SOURCE of funding between Abbasid Baghdad's and Britain's innovation?
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Explain a relevant example of how economic conditions contributed to the emergence of a new innovation from your thematic study.
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Explain a relevant example of how political conditions contributed to the emergence of a new innovation from your thematic study.
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Explain a relevant example of how social conditions contributed to the emergence of a new innovation from your thematic study.
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Which Abbasid caliph is most closely associated with founding Baghdad and, later, expanding its scholarship?
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Analyse continuity and change in the emergence of a new innovation, using one example from your thematic study.
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Analyse cause and consequence in the emergence of a new innovation, using one example from your thematic study.
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Analyse perspectives on the emergence of a new innovation, using one example from your thematic study.
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Discuss the view that innovation is always the product of many interacting conditions rather than any single cause, with reference to two regions from your thematic study.
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Examine the role of social conditions in the emergence of new innovations in two regions from your thematic study.
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To what extent were economic conditions the most important reason for the emergence of new innovations in this period?
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Evaluate the claim that political patronage or protection was the single most important reason innovation succeeded in this period.
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