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Emperor Charlemagne and His Elephant (Eyewitness) |
-elephant was a gift from the Abbasid dynasty -Charlemagne made diplomatic dealings with Harun al-Rashid |
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Benjamin of Tudela |
-spanish rabbi who traveled throughout Europe visiting around 300 cities -described Byzantine in political decline -described Constantinople flourishing and prosperous |
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Pope Gregory the Great on Peasant Taxation on the Papal Estates |
-Pope complains about unjust weights -harsh living conditions for the peasants are shown |
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Guillaume Boucher (goldsmith) |
-lived in Paris and traveled to Hungary where he was kidnapped my Mongols -military campaigns of nomadic peoples occurred -nomadic empires integrated cultures throughout the eastern hemisphere |
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William of Rubruck on Gender Relations among the Mongols |
-traveled and turned Mongols into Christians -was very shocked at the ways women behaved in the Mongol society (women drove and loaded wagons, milked cows, made clothes) |
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Marco Polo on Mongol Military Tactics |
-talks about their strong army and archery -horses trained well -firing while retreating tactic |
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The Lion Prince of Mali (Sundiata) |
-enemies of this father raided his town and spared him because of bum leg -grew out of disability and became ruler of own village -village grew big and had trade that promoted urban development, the organization of large states and empires |
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The peloponnesian war was fought between |
athens and sparta
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the term polis means |
a city-state |
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which of the following is true of Alexander? |
He always sought to destroy Persian culture |
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Linear B, the very first written Greek comes from |
Mycenaean |
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The environment of the ancient greek mainland and islands |
was especially suited to the cultivation of olives and grapes |
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The Uluburun shipwreck demonstrates |
that trading shops exchanged commodities between the societies of the mediterranian in Mycenaean times |
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Hellenistic egypt was ruled by what dynasty? |
Ptolemaic |
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What did Plato do? |
He was a student of socrates he taught that this world was a reflection of a world of ideal formshe was skeptical of democracy and advocated philosopher kings instead |
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Julius Caesar... |
reformed the calender |
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The first roman emperor |
Augustus |
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Rome fought the three Punic wars with what city over who would dominate the western miditerranean |
Carthage |
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A salvation religion especially popular in the roman army was |
Mithraism |
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T or F: Isis and Mithraism were unpopular and banned by the government |
false |
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the spread of christianity is mainly attributed to |
its appeal to urban populations and women |
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around 55CE, paul of tarsus traveled to rome to |
take his legal case to rome bc he was a roman citizen |
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T or F: The roman republic ruled after the roman empire |
false |
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Cato belived that |
luxury is the destruction of an empire (roman women dressing up and riding in carts) |
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rule by three men |
triumvirate |
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Building material developed by the romans |
concrete |
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greek woman who wrote nine volumes of poetry around 600 BCE |
Sappho |
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silk roads are best characterized as |
a network of land and sea trade routes connecting all parts of eurasia and the indian ocean in a web of trade |
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buddhism gained popularity in post-han china because |
buddhist missionaries and steppe nomads promoted it |
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the monsoon winds in the indian ocean |
tied southeast asia, india, arabia, and east africa together in a seasonal maritime trade network |
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in 139 BCE the chinese emperor dispatched zhang qian to central asia to |
seek allies agains the xiongnu |
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the creator of the tetrarchy, a system designed to ease the administration of the roman empire and assure steady succession was |
diocleatain |
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Arian christians |
believed that Jesus was created by God and were condemned by the council of Nicaea |
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The invading Huns contributed to the fall of the western roman empire by |
pressing germanic peoples into roman lands |
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the emperor who allowed christians to practice openly for the first time was |
constantine |
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st. cyprian's view of the epidemic of 251 CE was that |
it was a welcome event for the servants of God |
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What was not a problem within the church according to Gregory |
too many people converting to Islam |
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Xuanzang became a well-known monk of the Tang dynasty because |
his travels and study in india helped to popularize buddhism in china |
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What does not describe the Sui dynasty |
it lasted for three centuries |
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the major cause of tang decline during the mid-eighth century was that |
the an lushan rebellion crippled china |
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the major importance of dunhuang is that |
multiple trade routes converge there before passing into china its painted caves provide important insight into buddhist culture a large discovery of manuscripts is enabling us to rewrite tang history |
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compared with the tang dynasty, the song dynasty was |
less militarized |
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an important aspect of the market economy of song times was |
the first government issued paper money, which appeared in 1024 |
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the song dynasty |
is divided into the northern and southern song periods |
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major technological innovation of the tang and song dynasties |
gunpowder, movable type printing, magnetic compass |
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Dufu's opinion of tang dynasty wars of the 750's and 760's was |
that they were destroying society |
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a tooth, bone, robe, bowl, or other object of a holy man |
rellic |
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Song city with teahouses ranging from high quality to sketchy |
Hang Xio |
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Book by Lady Murasaki |
The Tale of Genji |
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what is not true of Haji |
it is the annual pilgrimage to the city of Jerusalem |
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Bedouins are |
people who live in the deserts |
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Muhammad is not |
the god honored by muslims |
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the islamic calendar begins with |
the Hijra |
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After the islamic conquests of non-muslims |
had to pay the Jizya |
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which of the following is not true of Abbasids |
they ruled over the entire islamic world, including north africa and spain |
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which of the following was not an aspect of the translation movement in abased times |
translation of latin legal terms |
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buzurg ibn shahriyar's the book of the wonders of india was |
a mixture of tall tales and faithful reflections of conditions of its time |
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Harsha was |
sponsored a great debate of religions at which xuanzang was present |
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differing from the south, northern india during the postclassical (medival) era was |
dominated by muslims |
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the chola kingdom |
established their seapower in the eastern indian ocean |
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hindu temples also served as |
banks, ecumenic and social centers, educational institutions |
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Guru Kabir |
was a leader of the Bakhi movement which sought to erase religious distinctions |
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Southeast Asia adopted what from india |
indian literature, hinuism and buddhism, indian concepts of rule and trade |
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Srivijaya |
had an economy based mostly on maritime commerce |
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Which of the following is not true of islam in southeast asia |
islam was completely unknown until the 15th century with the rise of Melaka |
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islam does not encourage |
celibacy and viewed the unmarried with suspicion |
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Ceylon |
central position for trade frequent ships from persia, india, and ethiopia used as an emporium |
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Muhammad's cousin and son-in-law |
Ali |
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Islamic math invention |
algebra |
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Buddhist university in india |
Nolanda |
