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What culture was a major influence on the Swahili civilization? |
Bantu Culture |
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What major luxury good came to symbolize the Eurasian exchange system? |
Silk |
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How did Buddhism change as it spread along the Silk Road? |
More materialistic, Buddha seen as godly, elements of other religions added |
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The contrast between the Silk Road and the Sea Road of the Indian Ocean? |
The sea roads of the Indian Ocean carried more products. |
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Why was the trade conducted along the Silk Road largely a relay trade? |
Goods were passed down the line |
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The absence of this made long-distance trade in the Americas difficult … |
Wheeled vehicles |
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Between 500 and 1500 the civilizations of the Mesoamerica’s and the Andes had little of this. _________ |
Contact between one another |
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The states that emerged between 500 and 1600 that controlled long-distance trade across the Sahara were concentrated in what part of Africa? |
West? |
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How did the spread of Islam affect Indian Ocean commerce? |
Muslim merchants and sailors established commerce of trades |
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Which empire had the greatest control over economic exchange within its borders? |
Inca Empire |
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What are examples of Indianization seen in southeast Asia? |
Architectural expansion of Hinduism |
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What development increased and expanded trade in the Indian Ocean basin? |
Encouragement of maritime trade by an effective and unified Chinese state |
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This technological innovation facilitated Indian Ocean commerce. |
Junks |
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The Silk Road built on earlier trading connections between Eurasian civilizations and what group? |
Pastoral Peoples |
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Political structure of the Swahili civilization was similar to ___________. |
City-states of Ancient Greece |
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What made the long trek across the Sahara possible? |
Camels |
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What characterized the network of exchange in the Americas? |
Networks were local, with most active links within rather than between regions |
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Eurasia experienced a period of intensified interaction under the rule of what group? |
Mongols |
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The Sand Roads linked N. Africa and the Mediterranean world to the land and people of ________________. |
Interior West Africa |
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What best describes Korea’s relationship with China? |
Its capital city of Kumsong was modeled directly on the Chinese capital of Chang'an |
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China’s most enduring and intense interaction with outsiders was ________________. |
the nomadic pastoral peoples of the northern steppes |
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Those who participated in the Chinese tribute system gained what? |
the opportunity to trade in China |
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Why were the Tang and Song dynasties regarded as a golden age in China? |
this was a time of an increase in arts and literature, setting standards of excellence in poetry, landscape painting, and ceramics. |
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What best describes Korea’s relationship with China in the premodern period? |
Korea adopted many elements of Chinese culture while still retaining a distinctive culture and separate political existence |
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Chinese interaction with Northern Nomads during the Tang Dynasty resulted in what? |
the evolution of a mixed Chinese/Turkic culture in northern China |
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The countries of Korea and Japan both did this in their relationship with China. ____________ |
sent people to China to study Chinese thought and culture |
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What do the Xiongnu, the Uighurs, the Khitan, and the Jurchen all have in common? |
They were paid to stay out by China. |
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What contributed to China’s economic prosperity during the Tang and Song Dynasty? |
A complex network of internal waterways that provided cheap transportation |
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What technological innovation spread from China to the rest of Eurasia? |
Printing |
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What was the factor of the growth of Buddhism in China? |
Increased disorder following the collapse of the Han dynasty, which discredited Confucianism |
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In the Song Dynasty, masculine identity came to be identified in terms of what? |
calligraphy, scholarship, painting, and poetry |
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What was a political contribution of the Tang and Song dynasties? |
The construction of a state structure that lasted until the twentieth century |
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The Chinese referred to these people as “western barbarians”. __________ |
Indians |
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How was Japan different from Korea and Vietnam in borrowing Chinese culture? |
Japan's borrowing was wholly voluntary rather than occurring under conditions of direct military threat or outright occupation |
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What did Korea, Japan, and Vietnam all develop that reflected their unique culture? |
Their own writing systems |
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What practice during the Song Dynasty suggests that Chinese women’s lives were more restricted than during the Tang Dynasty? |
Foot binding |
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How was the tribute system an expression of the Chinese view of themselves and their relationship with the world? |
It required non-Chinese to acknowledge Chinese superiority in their own subordinate world. |
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Which religion provided an element of cultural commonality for the east Asian region? |
Buddhism |
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What allowed the emergence of the Samurai in Japan? |
Japan’s decentralized political structure |
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What showed the effect of the Indian Ocean trade on China? |
The transformation of southern China from a subsistence economy to an export-oriented economy |
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The invention of printing in China was linked to what religion? |
Buddhism |
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This is an example of how Chinese inventions stimulated innovation in distant lands? |
The Chinese formula for gunpowder triggered the development of cannons in Europe |
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What initiated the division within Islam between the Sunni’s and Shia? |
Disagreement over who should assume leadership in the Islamic world |
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What is true of pre-Islamic Arabia? |
Jews, Christians and Zoroastrianism lived among the establish Arab populations |
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The Islamic community known as the Uma was based on a common what? |
Faith |
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How did the changed environment in china in the 9th century affect Buddhism? |
Buddhist monasteries came under state control as a xenophobic reaction set in |
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How was Indian Buddhism modified after its introduction into china? |
the Buddhist notion of morality was translated with the Confucian term for filial submission and obedience |
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What was the most thoroughly Islamized region in the period from 600-1500? |
Anatolia |
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What contributed to the rapid expansion of the Islamic Arab empire following the death of Muhammad? |
The weakened condition of the Byzantine and Persian empires |
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What religious tradition blended elements of Hinduism and Islam? |
Sikhism |
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What are the views expressed in the Quran about women? |
Women were spiritually equal to men |
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How were the Caliphs of the Abbasid dynasty different from the Umayyad? |
Allowed non Arabs to play a role in society |
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What was a distinctive feature of Sufism? |
Reunification of material world in pursuit of spiritual Union with Allah |
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What was a force that helped bind the Islamic world together? |
System of Islamic education created by the Ulmas |
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What feature of Islam ran convert to Hinduism in India? |
The Muslim notion of equality of all believers? |
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Sufi practitioners facilitated the conversion to Islam to people living in the Anatolia in India by doing what? |
Emphasizing personal experience of the divine, rather than the law |
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In what region was the conversion to Islam motivated by a desire to expand trade networks rather than from the result of conquest in Islamic rule? |
West Africa |
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What was the result of the cross regional ties created in the expanded Islamic world? |
Exchange of agriculture products from one region to another |
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What word refers to the pilgrimage to Mecca by Muslims? |
Hajj |
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The Arab empire that accompanied the spread of Islam stretched from where to where? |
Spain to India |
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Why was the city of Mecca important? |
It was the sit of the Kaaba where pilgrims congregated. |
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Which is a requirement for all Muslims (one of the five pillars)? |
Almsgiving |
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What event marked the beginning of the new Islamic calendar? |
Muhammad's emigration to Yathrib / Medina (Hijrah) |
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What contributed to the mass conversion of people living in the middle east to Islam? |
Conversion to Islam offered many financial and social benefits |
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What was the result from Muslim rule in Spain? |
The secular aspects of Islamic learning influenced the shaping of new European civilization |
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What refers to the sayings and deeds of the prophet Muhammad? |
The hadiths |
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What was the goal of education offered at the madrassas? |
To preserve an established body of Islamic learning |
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Which of these was an Arab innovation? |
Algebra |
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Islam had roots in which set of religious or philosophical traditions? |
Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism |
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What aspect of Arab tribal life was reinforced in the Quran? |
Solidarity |
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In contrast to the spread of Buddhism and Christianity, how did the spread of early Islam happen? |
gave rise to a large empire |