| 2657495889 | characteristics and political organization of the tigris-Euphrates civilization? | -city states competed for land and water
- rarely united under single government
-people believed land belonged to one or more gods
-Sumerian city-states | | 0 |
| 2657509322 | a "dynasty" in Chinese history is defined as? | family of rulers whose right to rule is hereditary | | 1 |
| 2657519143 | the "son of heaven" concept was designed to promote? | -the remoteness of emperor from subjects
-centralization of power in the state
- loyalty to the emperor
- explanation for decline of dynasties | | 2 |
| 2657557579 | the Qin dynasty differed from the Zhou in what ways? | Qin dynasty was more centralized, first to introduce a new political system, adopted legalism as political doctrine, only had one ruler | | 3 |
| 2657576068 | confucian beliefs? | NOT A RELIGION, philosophy, taught importance of family, respect for ones elders, reverence of ancestors | | 4 |
| 2657584526 | the indian caste system served to an extent as a political institution by? | -enforcing rules about social behavior
- dividing the people into specific class by status | | 5 |
| 2657594953 | hinduism | - originating in indian subcontinent
- world we see is an illusion
-earliest known organized religion
-influenced by info-european groups
-emphasis on individual life | | 6 |
| 2657779839 | "nirvana" meant | a state at which, enlightened as to the illusory nature of the self, transcends all suffering and attains peace; state of rest; harmony; stability or joy. full of union with the divine essence | | 7 |
| 2657839918 | compared to china, indian social and economic structure | gave a stronger role to merchants, tended to discourage commerce, gave greater latitude to merchants | | 8 |
| 2657849287 | compared to modern american ideas about democracy, athenian democracy was distinctive in? | urging that all citizens participate directly in lawmaking and policy making. Athens was direct democracy, U.S is representative democracy | | 9 |
| 2657866011 | the socratic method emphasized the importance of | questioning, education was key to personal growth | | 10 |
| 2657870548 | hellenistic society was known for its advances in | spread of greek lifestyle, science | | 11 |
| 2657873991 | japan developed a religion called | shintoism | | 12 |
| 2657879714 | the end of the gupta empire differed from the decline of rome | did not involve in the introduction of a new religion for the majority | | 13 |
| 2657885874 | the arabic camel nomads were referred to as | bedouin | | 14 |
| 2658438285 | what was the nature of the pre-islamic bedouin religion? | bedouin religion for most clans was a blend of animism and polytheism focusing on the worship of nature spirits | | 15 |
| 2658445852 | why did the arab warriors not want to covert large numbers of people to islam? | they would have had to share their treasure and would have lost all tax revenues | | 16 |
| 2658450787 | how did islam and hinduism differ? | muslims believe in one god, hindus believe in many. islam stressed the egalitarianism of all believers, while hinduism embraced a caste based social system | | 17 |
| 2658461377 | the byzantine empire lasted during what time period? | 330 to 1453 all dates CE (post classical) | | 18 |
| 2658467193 | the capital of the byzantine empire and its commercial center was located at | Constantinople | | 19 |
| 2658471841 | the emperor responsible for a surge in construction in Constantinople was | justinaian | | 20 |
| 2660002335 | the emperor responsible for a surge in construction in Constantinople was? | Justinian | | 21 |
| 2658478733 | the name normally given to the form of christianity that emerged in the byzantine empire was | orthodox christianity | | 22 |
| 2658485495 | the post classical period in western history between the fall of the roman empire and the 15th century is referred to as the? | middle ages | | 23 |
| 2658497040 | who were the scandinavian invaders who disrupted the development of durable political institutions in the medieval west until the 10th century? | vikings | | 24 |
| 2658504069 | agricultural laborers under the jurisdiction of aristocratic landowners were called | serfs | | 25 |
| 2658506986 | the members of the Japanese military elite who received land in return for military service in the bands of the greater lords were called? | vassals | | 26 |
| 2658523014 | pope gregory vii decreed the practice of investiture invalid. what was the investiture? | the practice of the state appointment of all bishops | | 27 |
| 2658529406 | the dynasty that ended the period of political chaos after the fall of the Qin-Han was the | sui | | 28 |
| 2658533190 | mounted troops owing loyalty to the military elite were called? (japan and Europe) | samuri and knights | | 29 |
| 2658546084 | what was the nature of warfare among bush? | battles hinged on man-to-man duels at great champions typical of the heroic stage of warfare, peasants carrying pikes, mounted samurai, masked assaults | | 30 |
| 2658560575 | what was the impact of the rise of the samurai on the peasantry in japan? | peasants were reduced to status of serfs bound to land they worked | | 31 |
| 2658573980 | the victory of the minamoto marks the beginning of what period in Japanese history? | feudal age | | 32 |
| 2658585928 | what was the religious preference of the korean elite | buddhism | | 33 |
| 2658595886 | in most ways, the mongols epitomized what type of society and culture? | nomadic | | 34 |
| 2658598728 | what was the basic unit of mongol society? | tribes | | 35 |
| 2658605264 | describe Chinggis Khans early life | known as the Temujin as a young child, father was poisoned, caught and imprissioned(forced to wear a wooden collar) regained power by defeating enemy clan | | 36 |
| 2658616577 | The mongol military forces features | entirely cavalry | | 37 |
| 2658622583 | what was the religious policy of the mongol empire under Chinggis Khan? | all religions were tolerated in his empire | | 38 |
| 2658632157 | What was the political organization of russia at the time of the mongol invasion in the first half of the 13th century? | russia was divided into numerous petty kingdoms centered on trading cities? | | 39 |
| 2658643633 | what was the nature of the russian resistance to the mongol invasion? | the princes of russia refused to cooperate among themselves and routed individually | | 40 |
| 2658655355 | in 1271, Kubilai Khan changed the name of the Mongol dynasty in china to??? | yaun | | 41 |
| 2658660106 | What were the major changes in the admiration of China under the Mongols | the mongols discontinued the use of the examination system to keep scholar-gentry from gaining too much power | | 42 |
| 2658666905 | what chinese dynasty succeeded the mongol yuan dynasty in china? | ming dynasty | | 43 |
| 2658669370 | what was the innovation launched by the ming dynasty? | mounting huge state sponsored trading expeditions throughput asia and beyond | | 44 |
| 2658779911 | what admiral commanded China's great overseas expeditions between 1405 and 1433? | general zhenghe | | 45 |
| 2658784164 | in what region of europe did the renaissance begin? | italy and western europe | | 46 |
| 2658788308 | in comparison to medieval culture, Renaissance culture had what features? | more concerned with things of the earthly world, individualism | | 47 |
| 2658792631 | the practice of judging other peoples by the standards and practices of one's own culture of ethnic group is called? | Jingoism | | 48 |
| 2658798431 | the initiative for western exploration and conquest came from where? | the kingdom of portugal | | 49 |
| 2658801237 | what region in the
americas was claimed by portugal | brazil | | 50 |
| 2658804622 | what italian captain sailing for the monarchs of spain reached the americas in 1492? | Christopher Columbus | | 51 |
| 2658808423 | what was the purpose of the early English voyages to north America? | to discover an arctic route to china | | 52 |
| 2658813162 | what british commercial institution ruled india for much of the 18th century? | the british east india company | | 53 |
| 2658817885 | what was the impact of the introduction of american crops into europe? | the introduction of corn and the potatoes led to major population growth in europe | | 54 |
| 2658823846 | what economic policy encouraged the development of colonies, particularly by northern Europe counties? | mercantilism | | 55 |
| 2658830186 | Johannes Gutenberg was responsible for | the invention of the movable type in the west (printing press) | | 56 |
| 2658833334 | who is generally credited with the initiating the protestant reformation in 1517? | Martin Luther | | 57 |
| 2658836259 | why did the common people support the lutheran reformation? | Lutheranism sanctioned money making and other earthly pursuits more wholeheartedly than did the catholicism. monasteries and christian bids against money making was abolished | | 58 |
| 2658848330 | what was the church established by Henry VII in engalnd? | Anglican (church of england) | | 59 |
| 2658852042 | the theological foundation of Jean Calvin's Protestantism was? | predestination (pre determination) | | 60 |
| 2658860436 | inflation and commercialization in the west produced a rout of people without access to producing property called? | proletariat (lowest class, working class) | | 61 |
| 2658864604 | the aftermath of the scientific revolution spilled over into a new intellectual movement in the 18th century called the? | enlightenment | | 62 |
| 2658867930 | how did agriculture change in the late 17th century? | new technology and better stock breeding methods resulted in higher productivity | | 63 |
| 2658877359 | what government did ivan the great claim to have succeeded as the "third Rome"? | russian | | 64 |
| 2658879651 | what family was selected in 1613 to establish a new ruling dynasty in russia? | Romonav | | 65 |
| 2658882820 | what was catherine the greats attitude toward the program of westernization? | catherine flirted vigorously with the ideas of the french enlightenment, but failed to take steps to abolish serfdom | | 66 |
| 2658892893 | the first spanish colony in the new world was established where? | hisponiola | | 67 |
| 2658900323 | the grants of indians to individual spaniards as a labor system were called? | encomiendas | | 68 |
| 2658902534 | the man responsible for the conquest of the aztec empire in mexico was? | hernan cortes | | 69 |
| 2658904499 | what was the african contribution to the "colombian exchange"? | slave trade | | 70 |
| 2658906327 | what was the demographic impact of the slave trade on africa? | the slave trade had the impact of skewing the population of central africa in favor a disproportional number of women | | 71 |
| 2658911863 | prior to the mongol invasions of their empire, the
Abbasid dynasty was dominated by this group of people? | the seljuk turks | | 72 |
| 2658913304 | the janissaries were? | sale troops of the ottoman forcibly conscripted as adolescents from conquered territories | | 73 |
| 2658919294 | whose voyages of exploration opened the way for the europeans to the indies? | vasco de gama | | 74 |
| 2658922110 | what raw materials were the most highly valued exports in the asian sea trading network for the europeans? | spices | | 75 |
| 2658923243 | causes of the french revolution | govornment, financial problems, people wanted a demographic forum(take power away from elite, takes, freedom of speeh, efficient government and enlightenment) | | 76 |
| 2658929423 | Louis Pasteur was responsible for the | french scientist who discovered the relationship between germ and the disease in the 19th century; leading to better sanitation | | 77 |
| 2658933286 | how did the establishment of educational systems in africa differ from those in java and india? | they depended more on religious missionaries than state support for education | | 78 |
| 2658936920 | in what century did most Latin american countries achieve their independence? | the 19th century | | 79 |
| 2658938078 | "manifest destiny" referrd to? | to support the expansion of the united states, through the acquisition of texas, oregon and parts of mexico (coast to coast | | 80 |
| 2658943872 | russian radicals who sought the abolition of all formal government were called? | anarchists | | 81 |
| 2658947948 | what was the chief political method used by the anarchists to achieve reform? | winning peasant support and a host of upper-class radicals fanned out to teach the peasantry the beauty of political activism. failure led to violent methods (1st large terrorists movement in modern world) | | 82 |
| 2658954719 | huge industrial combines put together in Japan by the 1890s were called? | zaibatsus | | 83 |
| 2658956051 | adolph hitler was the political and ideological leader of what party? | national socialist party/ nazi party | | 84 |
| 2658960485 | in order to avoid a two-front war, hitler signed a nonaggression pact with this country in 1939 | soviet union | | 85 |
| 2658961192 | a "technocrat" was | a new breed of bureaucrat typified by training in engineering or economics | | 86 |
| 2658964544 | what distinguishes those regions referred to as the "third world" from other societies? | lack of industrialization | | 87 |
| 2658967573 | why have the ethnic rivalries and communal violence been endemic in the decolonized african states? | Europeans hastily colonized africa and established boundaries without reference to ethnic groups or cultural homogeneity | | 88 |
| 2658971110 | "neocolonialism" refers to | continued relegation of the third world to economic dependency after decolonization | | 89 |
| 2658976582 | who headed the american occupation government of japan? | Douglas Macarthur | | 90 |
| 2658979934 | Mao's 1958 program of pushing industrialization through small-scale projects integrated into the peasant communes was called? | great leap forward | | 91 |
| 2658981187 | the term "perestroika" refers to | economic restructuring and more leeway for private ownership of goods and services | | 92 |
| 2658985146 | what russian leader significantly altered political, diplomatic, and economic policies in the soviet union after 1985? | Mikhial Gorbachev | | 93 |
| 2658986705 | The common currency of the european union is called the | euro | | 94 |
| 2658987782 | the increased interconnectedness of all parts of the world is called | globalization | | 95 |
| 2658988908 | NAFTA included the united states, canada and | mexico | | 96 |
