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Provide comprehensive responses to each assignment below. Please number your assignments accordingly. Make sure to adhere to minimum counts, and use your own words--do not quote verbatim from the textbook or any other source.

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1. From Chapter Ten, use a minimum of 200 words to address the following:

· Discuss some of the economic, social, legal protections, and cultural changes that Islam brought into women's lives.

· How did this relate to the position of women before the spread of Islam?

· What remains controversial, for some, about women's position in Islam?

· What was Muhammad's opinion about women?

· What controversies about veiling arose in Islam?

2. From Chapter Eleven, use a minimum of 200 words to address the following:

· Discuss the ways the Mongol empires encouraged cultural diffusion across Eurasia.

· What were the positive and negative consequences of this cultural diffusion?

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