Unit 2 Test Flashcards
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103616689 | Iran differed from the early river valley civi. in that | it never had a dense population | 0 | |
103616690 | The first group in Iran to achieve a complex political organization was the | Medes | 1 | |
103616691 | The dominant element in Iranian society were the | Warriors | 2 | |
103616692 | THe individual responsible for initially unifying Iran was | Cyrus | 3 | |
103616693 | The visitation of what group of people pushed Greece from the Dark Age into the Archaic Period? | Phoenicians | 4 | |
103616694 | Early Greek Armies consisted of | Private citizens, mostly farmers | 5 | |
103616695 | The development of coinage in greece | Allowed for more rapid exchange of goods, allowed for more efficent record keeping, stimulated trade | 6 | |
103621462 | An individual who seized and held power in violation of normal political traditions was a | tyrant | 7 | |
103621463 | Greece was organized into city-states called | polis or poleis | 8 | |
103621464 | The Greek Father of HIstory was | Herodotus | 9 | |
103621465 | Oracles were | Sacred sites where Greeks sought predictions or advice | 10 | |
103621466 | Sparta did not participate in the Archaic Age's Cultural and political renaissance because | their complete subordination of all else to the military demands of the state | 11 | |
103621467 | The New Athenian navy expanded democracy because | rowers from lower classes became important military figures and could demand more rights | 12 | |
103621468 | One Irony of Athenian democracy was | the abundance of slaves | 13 | |
103621469 | All of the Following are beliefs of Zorastianism | one supreme god, the eventual triumph of good over evil, a world created by Ahuramazda | 14 | |
103621470 | Greek city-states developed because | geography esp. mountains that separated populations | 15 | |
103621471 | All of the following are true of rationalism | Unaided reason can elicit truth, arguments can be broken down into syllogisms | 16 | |
103621472 | The 500 year period in which various thinkers came up with new ideologies | Axial Age | 17 | |
103621473 | In Persia all of the following is true of women | they could be royal attendants, the could earn higher wages than men, they could own property | 18 | |
103621474 | Greek democracy differed from out modern democracy because | It's definition of citizenship was distinctly limited and it was direct democracy rather than representational | 19 | |
123346904 | The main reason for the success of the Roman Empire was | Their willingness to grant political and economic privileges to conquered people | 20 | |
123346905 | The economic wealth of the EARLY Roman state was based on | Farming | 21 | |
123346906 | The Roman's ultimate art form was | engineering | 22 | |
123346907 | Which statement is true of Roman women? | They exercised influence over husbands and sons | 23 | |
123346908 | How did early Romans view the natural world? | as filled with numerous invisible, shapeless forces called numina | 24 | |
123346909 | The center of political action in the Roman Republic was | The senate | 25 | |
123346910 | The emperor responsible for the reorganization of the Roman government after 31 BCE was | Augustus | 26 | |
123346911 | The irony of the Roman victory in the punic wars was | It required them to go to sea, which they hated rather than land war | 27 | |
123346912 | In what way did Christianity differ from Judaism? | It was a reigion of doctrine rather than a lifestyle | 28 | |
123346913 | The person credited with defining the doctrine of Christianity was | PAUL | 29 | |
123346914 | Why was being a Christian in The Roman Empire considered an act of disloyalty | Christians would not worship the emperor as a deity | 30 | |
123346915 | The term ________ empire came to refer to the eastern half of the Roman Empire | Byzantine | 31 | |
123346916 | The first Roman Emperor to convert to Christianity was | Constantine | 32 | |
123346917 | Because of the influence of the Confucian ethics, chinese values emphasized | obedience and proper conduct | 33 | |
123346918 | The early han emperors reformed the legalist system by | incorporating Confucianism | 34 | |
123346919 | In order to supply administrators for the empire, the han | used officials from the gentry class used a version of confucianism to guide the government | 35 | |
123346920 | the fundamental economic activity in both han and roman empires was | agriculture | 36 | |
123346921 | Importnt Han innovations inclue | The horse collar, the watermill, and the crossbow | 37 | |
123346922 | Not a contributing factor to the fall of the Han Empire? | The subversice ideas of Buddhism | 38 | |
123442765 | A possible explanation for the relatively late emergence of a historical consciousness in India in | Geographic isolation by the himalayas. | 39 | |
123442766 | Three harvests per year have been possible in some parts of India because | high rainfall from the monsoons | 40 | |
123442767 | The varna system developed in order to create | Social order between groups | 41 | |
124162875 | What is the underlying message of the Law of Karma or cycle of reincarnation | you are what you deserve to be | 42 | |
124162876 | The Braahmins may have delayed the intro of writing to the general public because | they were tring to protect their status within society as keepers of knowledge | 43 | |
124162877 | The concept of reincarnation | prevented class rebellion, guaranteed that villages had adequate people to fill every job | 44 | |
124162878 | Buddhism and Jainism gained popularity in the late vedic period because | they offered insight or enlightenment as a path to salvation instead of rituals | 45 | |
124162879 | Four Noble Truths? | life is suffering and suffering in caused by desire | 46 | |
124162880 | The ultimate spiritual reward in buddhism is | Nirvana | 47 | |
124162881 | The mauryan's Mandela theory of foreign policy was | the enemy of my enemy is my friend | 48 | |
124162882 | The Mauryan leader Ashoka was a unique ruler because | he turned to NONVIOLENCE after being overwhelmed by the brutallity | 49 | |
124162883 | One of the most important contributions of the gupta intellectuals was the | concept of zero | 50 | |
124162884 | Southeast Asia is descirbed as geologically active zone because | its islands are the tops of a chain of volcanoes | 51 | |
124162885 | The 1st major SE asiasn center of commerce was | FUNAN | 52 | |
124162886 | SE asia first rose to prominence because | it was an intermediary in regional trade | 53 | |
124162887 | A common characteristic of patriarcy is that | upper class women were more retricted than lower class | 54 | |
124162888 | In china the three obediences emphasized a women's subordination to | father, husband, son | 55 | |
124162889 | In greek culture | athens attude towards women was more restrictive than sparta's | 56 | |
124162890 | Which of the major indian religions were the most patriarcial and placed most retrictions of women? | hinduism | 57 | |
124208879 | What Sasanid innovation n the 3rd century provide a key arab prosperity? | the horse stirrup | 58 | |
124208880 | The branch of christianity that believed human characteristics and divinity co-existed in Jesus was | Nestorianism | 59 | |
124208881 | Christianity spread to armenia only after | the invention of an armenain alphabet allowed them to reach a larger audience. | 60 | |
124208882 | Another name for trade where goods move through a series of markets or middlemen rather than single expedition is | relay trade or emporium trade | 61 | |
124208883 | The silk Roads mainly carred | luxury items for an elite clientele | 62 | |
124208884 | The sasanids est. ______ as their state religion | Zorastrianism | 63 | |
124208885 | the agricultural area bordering the Saharan Desert is called The Sahel which in arabic literaly means | the coast | 64 | |
124208886 | the term slave came from | the majority of slaves coming from slavic lands in Europe | 65 | |
124208887 | the importance of the trans-saharan trade was | it linked the north and south africa | 66 | |
124208888 | Pan-African cultural changes may have been shaped by | environmental changes that inspired southern migration | 67 | |
124208889 | Most sub saharan languages come from one giant linguistic family called | Bantu | 68 | |
124208890 | the most important metallurgical development in the sub saharan africa invovled | iron | 69 | |
124208891 | The silk roads and the India ocean trade fostered the spread od | BUDDHISM | 70 |