Early Civ. Test Three

Front 1

What culture was a major influence on the Swahili civilization?

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Bantu Culture

Front 2

What major luxury good came to symbolize the Eurasian exchange system?

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Silk

Front 3

How did Buddhism change as it spread along the Silk Road?

Back 3

More materialistic, Buddha seen as godly, elements of other religions added

Front 4

The contrast between the Silk Road and the Sea Road of the Indian Ocean?

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The sea roads of the Indian Ocean carried more products.

Front 5

Why was the trade conducted along the Silk Road largely a relay trade?

Back 5

Goods were passed down the line

Front 6

The absence of this made long-distance trade in the Americas difficult …

Back 6

Wheeled vehicles

Front 7

Between 500 and 1500 the civilizations of the Mesoamerica’s and the Andes had little of this. _________

Back 7

Contact between one another

Front 8

The states that emerged between 500 and 1600 that controlled long-distance trade across the Sahara were concentrated in what part of Africa?

Back 8

West?

Front 9

How did the spread of Islam affect Indian Ocean commerce?

Back 9

Muslim merchants and sailors established commerce of trades

Front 10

Which empire had the greatest control over economic exchange within its borders?

Back 10

Inca Empire

Front 11

What are examples of Indianization seen in southeast Asia?

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Architectural expansion of Hinduism

Front 12

What development increased and expanded trade in the Indian Ocean basin?

Back 12

Encouragement of maritime trade by an effective and unified Chinese state

Front 13

This technological innovation facilitated Indian Ocean commerce.

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Junks

Front 14

The Silk Road built on earlier trading connections between Eurasian civilizations and what group?

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Pastoral Peoples

Front 15

Political structure of the Swahili civilization was similar to ___________.

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City-states of Ancient Greece

Front 16

What made the long trek across the Sahara possible?

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Camels

Front 17

What characterized the network of exchange in the Americas?

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Networks were local, with most active links within rather than between regions

Front 18

Eurasia experienced a period of intensified interaction under the rule of what group?

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Mongols

Front 19

The Sand Roads linked N. Africa and the Mediterranean world to the land and people of ________________.

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Interior West Africa

Front 20

What best describes Korea’s relationship with China?

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Its capital city of Kumsong was modeled directly on the Chinese capital of Chang'an

Front 21

China’s most enduring and intense interaction with outsiders was ________________.

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the nomadic pastoral peoples of the northern steppes

Front 22

Those who participated in the Chinese tribute system gained what?

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the opportunity to trade in China

Front 23

Why were the Tang and Song dynasties regarded as a golden age in China?

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this was a time of an increase in arts and literature, setting standards of excellence in poetry, landscape painting, and ceramics.

Front 24

What best describes Korea’s relationship with China in the premodern period?

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Korea adopted many elements of Chinese culture while still retaining a distinctive culture and separate political existence

Front 25

Chinese interaction with Northern Nomads during the Tang Dynasty resulted in what?

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the evolution of a mixed Chinese/Turkic culture in northern China

Front 26

The countries of Korea and Japan both did this in their relationship with China. ____________

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sent people to China to study Chinese thought and culture

Front 27

What do the Xiongnu, the Uighurs, the Khitan, and the Jurchen all have in common?

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They were paid to stay out by China.

Front 28

What contributed to China’s economic prosperity during the Tang and Song Dynasty?

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A complex network of internal waterways that provided cheap transportation

Front 29

What technological innovation spread from China to the rest of Eurasia?

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Printing

Front 30

What was the factor of the growth of Buddhism in China?

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Increased disorder following the collapse of the Han dynasty, which discredited Confucianism

Front 31

In the Song Dynasty, masculine identity came to be identified in terms of what?

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calligraphy, scholarship, painting, and poetry

Front 32

What was a political contribution of the Tang and Song dynasties?

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The construction of a state structure that lasted until the twentieth century

Front 33

The Chinese referred to these people as “western barbarians”. __________

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Indians

Front 34

How was Japan different from Korea and Vietnam in borrowing Chinese culture?

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Japan's borrowing was wholly voluntary rather than occurring under conditions of direct military threat or outright occupation

Front 35

What did Korea, Japan, and Vietnam all develop that reflected their unique culture?

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Their own writing systems

Front 36

What practice during the Song Dynasty suggests that Chinese women’s lives were more restricted than during the Tang Dynasty?

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Foot binding

Front 37

How was the tribute system an expression of the Chinese view of themselves and their relationship with the world?

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It required non-Chinese to acknowledge Chinese superiority in their own subordinate world.

Front 38

Which religion provided an element of cultural commonality for the east Asian region?

Back 38

Buddhism

Front 39

What allowed the emergence of the Samurai in Japan?

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Japan’s decentralized political structure

Front 40

What showed the effect of the Indian Ocean trade on China?

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The transformation of southern China from a subsistence economy to an export-oriented economy

Front 41

The invention of printing in China was linked to what religion?

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Buddhism

Front 42

This is an example of how Chinese inventions stimulated innovation in distant lands?

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The Chinese formula for gunpowder triggered the development of cannons in Europe

Front 43

What initiated the division within Islam between the Sunni’s and Shia?

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Disagreement over who should assume leadership in the Islamic world

Front 44

What is true of pre-Islamic Arabia?

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Jews, Christians and Zoroastrianism lived among the establish Arab populations

Front 45

The Islamic community known as the Uma was based on a common what?

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Faith

Front 46

How did the changed environment in china in the 9th century affect Buddhism?

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Buddhist monasteries came under state control as a xenophobic reaction set in

Front 47

How was Indian Buddhism modified after its introduction into china?

Back 47

the Buddhist notion of morality was translated with the Confucian term for filial submission and obedience

Front 48

What was the most thoroughly Islamized region in the period from 600-1500?

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Anatolia

Front 49

What contributed to the rapid expansion of the Islamic Arab empire following the death of Muhammad?

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The weakened condition of the Byzantine and Persian empires

Front 50

What religious tradition blended elements of Hinduism and Islam?

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Sikhism

Front 51

What are the views expressed in the Quran about women?

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Women were spiritually equal to men

Front 52

How were the Caliphs of the Abbasid dynasty different from the Umayyad?

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Allowed non Arabs to play a role in society

Front 53

What was a distinctive feature of Sufism?

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Reunification of material world in pursuit of spiritual Union with Allah

Front 54

What was a force that helped bind the Islamic world together?

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System of Islamic education created by the Ulmas

Front 55

What feature of Islam ran convert to Hinduism in India?

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The Muslim notion of equality of all believers?

Front 56

Sufi practitioners facilitated the conversion to Islam to people living in the Anatolia in India by doing what?

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Emphasizing personal experience of the divine, rather than the law

Front 57

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?

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West Africa

Front 58

What was the result of the cross regional ties created in the expanded Islamic world?

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Exchange of agriculture products from one region to another

Front 59

What word refers to the pilgrimage to Mecca by Muslims?

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Hajj

Front 60

The Arab empire that accompanied the spread of Islam stretched from where to where?

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Spain to India

Front 61

Why was the city of Mecca important?

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It was the sit of the Kaaba where pilgrims congregated.

Front 62

Which is a requirement for all Muslims (one of the five pillars)?

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Almsgiving

Front 63

What event marked the beginning of the new Islamic calendar?

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Muhammad's emigration to Yathrib / Medina (Hijrah)

Front 64

What contributed to the mass conversion of people living in the middle east to Islam?

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Conversion to Islam offered many financial and social benefits

Front 65

What was the result from Muslim rule in Spain?

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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?

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The hadiths

Front 67

What was the goal of education offered at the madrassas?

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To preserve an established body of Islamic learning

Front 68

Which of these was an Arab innovation?

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Algebra

Front 69

Islam had roots in which set of religious or philosophical traditions?

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Judaism, Christianity, and Zoroastrianism

Front 70

What aspect of Arab tribal life was reinforced in the Quran?

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Solidarity

Front 71

In contrast to the spread of Buddhism and Christianity, how did the spread of early Islam happen?

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gave rise to a large empire