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| 2934889230 | which of the following statements concerning inter-clan relationships in bedouin society is most accurate | inter-clan violence over control of water and pasturage was common | 0 | |
| 2934889231 | what was the result of inter-clan rivalries | it weakened the bedouin in comparison to neighboring peoples and empires | 1 | |
| 2934889232 | what clan was responsible for the foundation of Mecca | Umayyad | 2 | |
| 2934889233 | What was the Ka'ba | the religious shrine that was the focus of an annual truce | 3 | |
| 2934889234 | What was the major difference between Medina and Mecca | Political dominance in Medina was ocntested between a number of Jewish and bedouin tribes. | 4 | |
| 2934889235 | which of the following statements most accurately describes the status of women in bedouin society prior to Islam | women in pre-Islamic bedouin culutre enjoyed greater freedom and higher status than those of the Byzantine and Persian Empires. | 5 | |
| 2934889236 | what was the nature of pre-Islamic bedouin religion | bedouin religion for most clans was a blend of animism and polytheism focusing on the worship of nature spirits | 6 | |
| 2934889237 | what was the clan into which Muhammad was born | Banu Hashim | 7 | |
| 2934889238 | what was the initial response of the Umayyads to Muhammad's new faith | they regarded him as a threat to their wealth and power as he questioned the traditional gods of the Ka'ba | 8 | |
| 2934889239 | what was the principle advantage of the Islamic concept of the ummah | it transcended old tribal boundaries and made possible political unity among Arab clans | 9 | |
| 2934889240 | which of the following represents a mounting pressure for change in pre-Islamic society greater | Byzantine and Sassanian control over Arabic tribes of the peninsula and Arabic migration to Mesopotamia | 10 | |
| 2934889241 | which of the following statements concerning Muhammad's flight to Medina is NOT correct | Muhammad fled from Mecca with nearly one quarter of the city's population | 11 | |
| 2934889242 | the Umayyads were threatened by all of the following developments EXCEPT | Muhammad's destruction of the Ka'ba | 12 | |
| 2934889243 | What was Muhammad's teachings with respect to the revelations of other monotheistic religions | Muhammad accepted the validity of earlier Christian and Judaic revelations and taught that his own revelations were a final refinement and reformulation of earlier ones | 13 | |
| 2934889244 | which of the following was NOT a reason for the decline of the Abbasid dynasty by the ninth century AD | the collapse of the cities | 14 | |
| 2934889245 | which of the following groups did NOT revolt against Abbasid rule | Sunnis | 15 | |
| 2934889246 | how did the Caliph al-Mahdi resolve the problem of succession in the Abbasid dynasty | he failed to resolve the problem of dynastic succession with disastrous results | 16 | |
| 2934889247 | what was the fictional account of life at the court of the Caliph al-Rashid | The thousand and one nights | 17 | |
| 2934889248 | how did the administration of al-Rashid set a trend for subsequent Abbasid rulers | he was at the outset of his reign heavily dependent on Persian advisers, a practice that became commonplace thereafter | 18 | |
| 2934889249 | what was the result of the civil wars following the deaht of al-Rashid | candidates for the throne recognized the need to build up personal armies, often of slave soldiers | 19 | |
| 2934889250 | which of the following statements concerning the mercenary armies of the later Abbasid era is NOT accurate | despite their tendency toward random violence, they loyally defended the Abbasid Caliphs | 20 | |
| 2934889251 | what accounts for the disruption of the agricultural economy of the Abbasid Empire | spiralling taxation, the destruction of the irrigation works, and pillaging by mercenary armies led to destruction and abandonment of many villages | 21 | |
| 2934889252 | what was the innovation of the Abbasid court with respect to women | the creation of Islamic nunneries | 22 | |
| 2934889253 | what was the attitude of the Abbasid's towards the institution of slavery the Abbasid elite demanded | growing numbers of both male and female slaves for concubines and domestic service | 23 | |
| 2934889254 | why were the practices of seclusion and veiling seen as essential in Islamic society | women were believed to be possessed of insatiable lust from which men had to be protected | 24 | |
| 2934889255 | which of the following statements concerning women during the Abbasid era is most accurate | women often married at puberty, set at age nine | 25 | |
| 2934889256 | what was the trend of urbanization during much of the Abbasid Empire | despite political disintegration and a decline in agricultural economy, towns continued to grow rapidly | 26 | |
| 2934889257 | what was the primary language of the later Abbasid court | Persian | 27 | |
| 2934889258 | what was the difference between the Islamic invasions of India and previous incursions of the subcontinent | with the Muslims, the peoples of India encountered for the first time a large-scale influx of invaders with a civilization as sophisticated as their own | 28 | |
| 2934889259 | how did Islam and Hinduism differ | Islam stressed the egalitarianism of all believers, while Hinduism embraced a caste-based social system | 29 | |
| 2934889260 | what was Harsha's religious policy | Harsha remained steadfastly loyal to Hinduism and suppressed the few remaining Buddhist monasteries in his empire | 30 | |
| 2934889261 | which of the following is most correctly seen as a direct descendant of the Roman Empire | Byzantine Empire | 31 | |
| 2934889262 | The Byzantine Empire lasted from roughly | 500-1450 | 32 | |
| 2934889263 | which of the following territories was always part of the Byzantine Empire | Balkans | 33 | |
| 2934889264 | the significance of the Byzantine Empire included all of the following EXCEPT | the empire's conquest of the Ottoman Empire and its inclusion of all of the Middle East | 34 | |
| 2934889265 | Which of the following does NOT represent a similarity between the spread of civilization in eastern and western Europe | Northern political units rapidly dominated the political sophistication of civilization areas in Asia and North Africa | 35 | |
| 2934889266 | what was the difference in the military organization of Byzantine and western Roman Empires | the Byzantine Empire recruited men from the Middle East | 36 | |
| 2934889267 | the name normally given to the form of Christianity that emerged in the Byzantine Empire was | Orthodox Christianity | 37 | |
| 2934889268 | what Eastern emperor was responsible for the attempted restoration of a united Roman Empire after 533 | Justinian | 38 | |
| 2934889269 | all of the following were outcomes of Justinian's wars of reconquest EXCEPT | the permanent addition of Rome to the Byzantine Empire | 39 | |
| 2934889270 | after the seventh century, what group posed the greatest threat to the eastern frontiers of the Byzantine Empire | the Arab Muslims | 40 | |
| 2934889271 | in which of the following ways were the Byzantine bureaucracy and the Chinese bureaucracy similar | both bureaucracies were open to talented commoners, not just aristocrats | 41 | |
| 2934889272 | which of the following statements concerning Byzantine military organization is most accurate | the Byzantine Empire recruited troops within the empire by granting heritable land in return for military service | 42 | |
| 2934889273 | which of the following statements concerning urbanization within the Byzantine Empire is most correct | Constantinople controlled the economy and grew to enormous size, but other cities were relatively small | 43 | |
| 2934889274 | which of the following statements concerning the merchant class of the Byzantine Empire is most accurate | there was a large and wealthy merchant class in the Byzantine Empire, but it never gained significant political power because of the power of the bureaucracy | 44 | |
| 2934889275 | the religious controversy over the use of religious images in worhip that broke out in the tenth century was called | the iconoclastic controversy | 45 | |
| 2934889276 | what two missionaries were responsible for the creation of a written script for Slavic language | Cyril and Methodius | 46 | |
| 2934889277 | why did Vladimir I prefer Orthodox Christianity to Roman Catholicism | he believed that Roman Catholicism implied papal interference, while Orthodoxy embraced the control of the church by state | 47 | |
| 2934889278 | of the following statements concerning the Tatar invasion of Russia is most accurate | Tatar supervision did not destroy Russian Christianity or a native Russian aristocracy | 48 |
