Migration, Silk Roads, Montaillou

Question 1

Ottoman migration

Answer 1

Turkish reprisals for rebellions and mutual hostility between Muslims and Christians generated refugees

Up to 1912, Bulgaria received about 250,000 refugees, whilst Constantinople’s population doubled with Muslim refugees

Question 2

WW1 Russia migration

Answer 2

Advance of German armies in Russia led to mass evacuation (obligatory for Jews and factory/institution employees)

Up to 1916, over 3.15 million refugees registered in non-occupied Russia

Question 3

WW2 migration levels

Answer 3

60 million citizens were affected by the wartime migration in Europe

Over 20 million displaced in the aftermath of the war

Question 4

Silk Roads - flow of empires

Answer 4

Persians 6th century BC - effective due to ability to learn from other cultures

Question 5

Silk Roads - road of faiths

Answer 5

Religious ideas flowed along the roads

Religious exchange became complex and competitive - a rich melting pot where ideas were borrowed, refined and unpackaged

Buddhist statues only emerged in response to Islam

Question 6

Montaillou context

Answer 6

Follows a small Pyrenees village

Uses depositions of Bishop of Pamiers, from 1318-1325

Area saw resurgence of Catharism

Interprets sources looking for the incidental to discover information about the people

Question 7

Montaillou domus

Answer 7

Looks at the idea of the household and family structure as a means of interpreting religious conversion and events

Status of domus most important thing