Ap world history Unit 3:Post Classical era Flashcards

3169348636	According to Procopius, two sixth century Christian monks undertook an elaborate smuggling operations to provide Byzantium with knowledge to produce what?	silk	0
3169382451	The only classical society that survived the centuries after 400 C.E. was the	Byzantine	1
3169388599	Byzantium's major advantage was	its strategic position on the bosporus	2
3169401555	Which of the following statements about Constantinople is not true?	It was built in an attempt to revitalize the impoverished eastern half of the Roman empire.	3
3169421583	Which part of the Mediterranean basin was never part of the Byzantine Empire?	Arabia; The Western half	4
3169431790	Up through the eighth century, who was the chief foreign threat to the eastern Roman Empire?	The Sasanids	5
3169439232	What was the most important political feature of the Byzantine state?	its tightly centralized power under a powerful emperor	6
3169445890	The mixture of secular and religious authority that marked Constantine's reign as well as that of the Byzantine emperors.	Caesaropapism	7
3169449531	What do historians use the term caesaropapism to refer to?	The system in which the emperor has a mixture of political and religious authority.	8
3169462505	The adjective byzantine, drawn from the government of Byzantium, stands for	Unnecessary complexity and convolution	9
3169478760	Theodora's career before marrying Justinian was a	Striptease artist	10
3169483043	Hagia Sophia was	the magnificent church at Constantinople	11
3169497768	justinian's most important and long-lasting political achievement was	the codification of Roman law	12
3169503389	Justinians issuance of the Corpus juris civlis	won recognition as the definitive codification of Roman law	13
3169511153	Italy, Sicily, northwestern Africa, and southern Spain were brought back under imperial control by the military victories of	Belisarius	14
3169515054	Constantinople withstood sieges in 674-678 and 717-718 by	arabic forces	15
3169546712	One of the causes of Byzantine resurgence was political innovation wherein a general was given military and civil control over an imperial province or	theme	16
3169554629	Byzantinian Ruler who led a resurgence of power in eleventh century by crushing the Bulgars was	Basil ll	17
3169562299	the term GREEK FIRE refers to	This was a weapon they used made of sulphur, lime, and petroleum. It could burn on water which was a hazard around wooden ships.	18
3175663259	Basil II crushed the Bulgars in 1014 at the Battle of	Kleidion	19
3175665581	The wife of Justinian, who proved to be an invaluable adviser, was	Theodora	20
3175674609	A direct challenge to the Byzantine emperor arose in the year 800 when the pope gave an imperial crown to what Frankish king?	Charlemagne	21
3175679171	In the year 962, Otto of Saxony	claimed to rule as emperor of the old western half of the Former Roman Empire	22
3175681990	The theme system	it placed an imperial province under the jurisdiction of an army general who took responsibility for both its military defense and civil administration	23
3175689108	By the late sixth century, Byzantium became the Mediterranean world's leading producer of	silk	24
3175690780	The bezant	it was Byzantines standard currency of Meditteranean	25
3175695488	From the sixth century on, the official language of Constantinople was	latin	26
3175700786	The main factions during the Justinian's time who contested in the Hippodrome and two occasionally fought in the streets were	the greens and blues	27
3175705038	What describes education in Byzantium?	Basic literacy was widespread in Byzantine society	28
3175712449	In 325 c.e., in an effort to answer the Arians, Constantine brought together leading church men at the council of	Nicea	29
3175714654	The Alexandrian priest, Arius, leader of the Arians, believed what?	Taught that Jesus used to be a mortal and was creation of God rather than a divine being	30
3175720464	Emperor Leo lll inaugurated the divisive ecclesiastical policy of	Iconoclasm	31
3175721149	Who was the first and most famous of the pillar Saint?	St. Simeon Stylite	32
3175726200	St. Basil of Caesarea played a key role in the rise of	Monasticism	33
3175731152	What did the pope in Rome and the patriarch in Constantinople do to each other in 1054?	They mutually excommunicated and refused to recognize each other's church as properly Christian	34
3175735955	The fourth crusade, in early 1204	Sacked Constantinople and caused extreme harm to the Byzantine empire	35
3175744086	In a disaster from which the Byzantine empire never really recovered Constantinople was sacked in 1204 by the	Fourth crusade	36
3175746859	In 1071 Byzantium lost the battle of Manzikert and control over Anatolia to the	Saljuqs	37
3175750657	The Byzantine empire suffered a devastating loss to the Saljuq Turks in 1071 at the battle of	Manzikert	38
3175751924	Constantinople finally fell in 1453 to the	Ottoman turks	39
3175752946	Saints Methodist and cyril	Devised the Cyrillic alphabet	40
3175755532	What city influenced heavily by Constantinople was most important in the early rise of russia	Kiev	41
3175757096	The rise of orthodox Christianity in Russia was helped by the conversion in 989 of	Prince Vladimir of Kiev	42
3175759250	By the 16th century Russians had begun to think of Moscow as	The third rome	43
3222717508	Haji	the islamic pilgrimage to Mecca	44
3222718143	islam means	submission	45
3222719000	"One who has submitted"	Muslim	46
3222719536	"House of Islam"	refers to the land under islamic rule, the phrase dar al- islam	47
3222721216	Khadija	in muhammad's wife, a wealthy widow	48
3222722817	the quran	is the holy book of islam	49
3222723843	the turning point in the rise of Islam was	hijra(migration) when muhammad moved to Medina	50
3222724679	islamic holy law	sharia	51
3222726102	no religious leader could follow muhammad because	so political authority rested in the position of the caliph	52
3222729587	caliph elected after muhammad's death	Abu Bakr	53
3222729997	the shia believed	the caliphate should follow the line of Ali	54
3222730751	the main split inside islam	sunni and shia	55
3222732311	the umayyad dynasty came to power after the assassination of	Ali	56
3222736666	umayyad governing policies reflected	the victorious Arab armies of the umayyad dynasty	57
3222738372	Jizya	the umayyad forces allowed conquered peoples to maintain their own religions, but insisted that they pay a special head tax on those people who did not convert to islam, the head tax	58
3222741815	The Abbasid dynasty was founded by	Abu al-Abbas	59
3222742924	The Abbasid dynasty differed from the Umayyad dynasty in that	it was not a conquering dynasty	60
3222744547	Baghdad	the capital of the Abbasid empire	61
3222746133	ulama	people with religious knowledge	62
3222749377	the high point of the Abbasid dynasty came during the reign of	Harun al-Rashid	63
3222750460	the Saljuqs sultan was	during the last 200 years of the Abbasid empire fell to them	64
3222751836	The Abbasid dynasty finally came to an end when	it was overrun by the mongols	65
3222752919	The most important new crop that spread throughout the Islamic world were	cotton	66
3222754236	Paper manufacture was transmitted to the Islamic world from _________, during the _______________ period?	China, Abbasid	67
3222755606	caravanserais	inns offering lodging for caravan merchants and care for their animals	68
3222756994	sakks allowed merchants to	islamic banks honored letters of credit, which could be drawn on the parent bank	69
3222758901	Al-Andalus	its capital city is Cordoba	70
3222760525	the quran allows men to have up to how many wives?	four	71
3222763717	how did the conquest of Mesopotamia and Persia influence the role of the women in the Islamic world?	Islamic society became more patriarchal	72
3222768168	the text of the quran has to be in _______ to be reliable	arabic	73
3222768578	institutions of higher learning	madrasas	74
3222770660	the sufis believed	in an emotional and mystical union with allah	75
3222773295	the persian theologian who argued that human reason was too frail to understand the nature of allah was	the Persian al-Ghazali	76
3222777020	what factors helped bring unity to islamic world?	Ka'ba at Mecca, Abbasid caliphs encouraged hajj, and pilgrims who made the trip to Mecca spread islamic values and beliefs all over parts of the Islamic world	77
3222780730	Literary works of the abbasid dynasty reflect the influence of	Persia	78
3222781002	Rubaiyat	the author was Omar Khayyam	79
3222781946	the Arabian Nights is also known as	the thousand and one nights	80
3222782280	Indian influence on islamic thought was most prevalent in the field of	math	81
3222784726	arabic numbers originated in	india	82
3222785087	Ibn Rushd	the islamic thinker who studied aristotle and whose thought, in turn, influenced the rise of European scholasticism	83
3222787596	the main influence on the thought of ibn rushd was	Aristotle	84
3222790150	ibn rushd's reliance on natural reason went too far for many muslims, who	who placed more value on the revelations of the Quran than on the fruits of human logic	85
3230668127	Xuanzang was famous for	Traveling beyond the China border to India and back	86
3230677161	Yang jian	The Sui dynasty was founded by	87
3230682756	The grand canal was completed under the second Sui emperor	Sui yangdi	88
3230689192	The principal conduit of internal trade in postclassical China that continues to function today	The grand canal	89
3230695255	The grand canal stretched from what city in the south to what city in the north	Yangzhou to Beijing	90
3230701748	The Tang Dynasty's energetic second ruler	Tang taizong	91
3230704198	The equal field system	The tang plan to avoid the concentration of land in the hands of the wealthy	92
3230713281	The imperial civil service system of the Tang Dynasty reflected	The heavy reliance on a bureaucracy based on merit most office holders won their posts because of intellectual ability	93
3230822247	The Tang Dynasty	Confucianism, administration equal field system expansion into Korea/Vietnam tributary relationships between China and neighboring lands	94
3230827462	Go to the blue sea look along the shore at all the old white bones forsaken	The post Du Fu	95
3230836867	A ritual prostration in which subordinates knelt before the empire and touched their foreheads to the ground	The kowtow	96
3230846467	Tang emperors were forced to invite the Turkish uighurs to bring an army into China and suppress a rebellion by	An lushan	97
3230849844	Huang chao	Most of eastern China fell to this man, who rebelled because of popular discontent and who raided the wealthy and distributed his plunder to the poor	98
3230862382	The first song emperor	Song taziu	99
3230866801	The Song Dynasty was substantially weakened by	Raise taxes, and the military was lead by scholar bureaucrats who generally had little military intelligence it talents	100
3230876619	The Song Dynasty ultimately fell to the	Mongols	101
3230891319	Fast ripening rice	In Vietnam allowed more food to be produced	102
3230896255	Foot binding is an example of	A patriarchal society	103
3230901186	Chinese naval technological innovations included	South pointing needle aka compass	104
3230904935	Flying cash	Letters of credit came into common use during the early tang period	105
3230909031	In 1024	The first paper money printed under government auspices appeared in Sichuan province	106
3230916665	A sizable Buddhist community emerged in	Dunhuang in western China	107
3230926685	In which of the following areas did Buddhism not become the major religion	India	108
3230933923	Buddhist missionaries translated the Indian term dharma as Dao	In an effort to win support in China by tying into Chinese traditions Buddhist missionaries translated the Indian term	109
3230943074	Chan buddhism	Most popular school of Buddhism in China	110
3230948572	Japanese Zen Buddhism is based on	Chan Buddhism little interest emphasized intuition and sudden flashes of insight in their search for spiritual enlightenment	111
3230972497	The closure of monasteries and expulsion of Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Nestorian Christians and Manichaeans occurred in the 840s under the	Tang emperors	112
3230975482	Zhu xi	The most influential neo-Confucian thinker	113
3230978999	The neo Confucian scholar zhu xi	Maintained a deep commitment to Confucian values emphasizing proper behavior/social harmony became fascinated with he philosophical speculative features of Buddhist thought	114
3230994077	The Silla dynasty never	Adopted the bureaucracy of merit	115
3231000008	In the seventh century ce the Silla dynasty agreed to a political compromise with the Chinese Dynasty	Silla	116
3231004539	The relationship between Chinese and viet people was characterized by	Resisted but then readily adopted Chinese agricultural Methods and irrigation systems and school administration techniques	117
3231007199	As compared to Chinese woman Vietnamese woman	Played a much more prominent role in Vietnamese society and economy	118
3231009112	The indigenous religion of Japan is	Shinto	119
3231011419	Chinese influence on Japan was most profound during	Nara period	120
3231012825	The Japanese city of Nara was a	Chang'an	121
3231015376	The tale of genii was written by	Murasaki shikibu, a lady in waiting at the heian court	122
3231017063	Murasaki shikibu was	Responsible for the creation of the tale of genji	123
3231021819	In 1185 the minamoto clan defeated their rival the taira clan and installed a	Didn't seek to abolish imperial authority but claimed to rule the land in the name of the emperor	124
3231027318	In place of the Japanese emperor, a military governor with the title of Ruled	Shogun	125
3236997636	The shipmaster Buzurg ibn shahriyar	shipmaster from Siraf who wrote the "Book of the wonders of India."	126
3237015863	postclassical india's political structure never	developed a single centralized imperial rule	127
3237022197	in 451 ce an invasion by the white hun began the collapse of the	Gupta state	128
3237026782	India was not completely reunited after the collapse of the gupta dynasty until	16th century, when a turkish people known as the mughals extended their authority and their empire to most of the subcontinent	129
3237036292	When comparing northern and southern India during the postclassical era, it can be stated that	southern conflicts were less frequent, less intense, and less damaging than those that plagued the north	130
3237041286	The scholarly Buddhist emperor	reunited northern india in 7th century was King Harsha	131
3237044265	King Harsha was known for	his piety, liberality, and scholarship	132
3237044399	In 711, Arab forces	the northern area of Sind fell to the Umayyad dynasty	133
3237047762	Cambay was	the most important trading port in india fro 500-1500	134
3237123897	islam reached india by	Muslim merchants, military, migration/invasions	135
3237125488	mahmud of ghazni was	the islamic ruler, who led 17 different raiding expeditions into India in the 11th century	136
3237131742	mahmud of ghazni's main inspiration for visiting india was	plundering in wealth stored in its many well endowed temples	137
3237135640	as a result of the campaigns of mahmud of ghazni	the demolishing of hundreds of sites associated with Hindu or Buddhist faith, and did not encourage indians to turn to Islam	138
3237149630	From the twelfth through the early sixteenth century, northern india was dominated by	Sultanate of Delhi	139
3237152563	The Delhi sultans were	there were 35 who prominently sponsored islam and helped establish a secure place for their faith in the cultural landscape of india	140
3237196069	From 850 through 1267, this wealthy trading state controlled southern india	the chola kingdom	141
3237198641	southern india's kingdoms were mainly	regional	142
3237204484	in 1336, harihara and bukka founded the southern kingdom of	vijayanagar	143
3237210192	vijayanagar means	city of victory	144
3237212630	the changing monsoon winds ensured that	indians required irrigation during the dry month	145
3237217151	by 1500, the population of india had reached	105 million	146
3237218958	hindu temples	served as economic and social centers and also provided basic schooling for boys in community	147
3237347092	india was a natural site for the establishment of emporia because	it stood in the middle of the indian ocean basin	148
3237350716	adulis was	axum	149
3237355968	during the postclassical age the caste system became more complex and	adapted to the arrival of migrants and helped integrate them into indian society, also influenced the lives of most people by helping to order their work/relationships with other workers	150
3237361096	shankara was a 9th century thinker, who believed that	the physical world was an illusion and that ultimate reality lay beyond the physical senses	151
3237371380	the words "one should engage himself in singing of me, praising me" are drawn from what 9th century indian document	bhagavata purana	152
3237377699	ramanuja the 12th century devotee of vishnu believed that	personal devotion and personal union with the deity was more important than an intellectual understanding of ultimate reality	153
3237384107	by 1500, 25 million indians were muslims, which amounts to about what portion of the population	1/4	154
3237385755	the bhakti movement	a cult of love and devotion that ultimately sought to erase the distinction between hinduism and islam	155
3237632995	Guru Kabir believed	that there was a single, universal deity that all devout believers could find in their hearts	156
3237635566	Which of the following was a bhakti teacher who believed that Shiva, Vishnu, and Allah were all manifestations of a single, universal deity?	Guru Kabir	157
3237643288	The philosophy of the bhakti teacher, Guru Kabir, was similar to that of	mani	158
3237646195	The bhakti belief that all gods were manifestations of a single, universal deity is most similar	manichaeism	159
3237649221	What Indian concepts became popular in the southeast Asian states influenced by India?	ruling elites became acquainted with indian political/cultural traditions borrowed forms of political organization and accepted indian religious faiths, adopted kingship as principal form of political authority	160
3237652671	Funan, the first Southeast Asian state to reflect Indian influence, was centered on its capital port city of	oc ec.	161
3237655035	The lower reaches of which Southeast Asian river was dominated Funan?	mekong	162
3237659129	The kingdom of Srivijaya was based	kings built a powerful navy and controlled commerce in se asian waters taxed ships passing through the region maintained an all sea trade route between china and india	163
3237661301	The design of the Khmer temples at Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat show	the influence of the indian traditions in southeast asia	164
3237666235	The temples of Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat were built by	Funan and angkor	165
3237671510	Funan and Angkor were	land based states that derived most of their wealth from productive agricultural economy	166
3237674269	Srivijaya and Angkor made deep commitments	to buddhism	167
3237677284	Paramesvara was	founding the melaka state	168
3237681245	Melaka differed significantly from earlier states in	became predominantly islamic	169
3237771949	At the battle of Tours in 732 CE	charles martel defeated an islamic force	170
3237774662	In 802, Charlemagne received	an albino elephant	171
3237776820	The developments of the early medieval era that served as foundations for the development of the powerful European society that emerged after 1000 CE included all of the following EXCEPT?	was:restoring political order, a process of economic recovery, and building an institutional framework that enabled the christian church based in rome to provide religious leadership maintain cultural unity	172
3237778988	The last of the Roman emperors was deposed in 476 CE by the invasion of	the germans and their general odoacer	173
3237781944	Which of the following pairings between Germanic tribes and the area they invaded is correct?	visigoths-spain, ostrogoths-italy, burgundians/franks-gaul, angles/saxon-britain	174
3237784639	Spain was conquered by	visigoths	175
3237788091	What group seemed likely to play a prominent role in European affairs after the collapse of western Roman authority?	germanic invaders	176
3237790377	Ostrogoths dominated	italy	177
3237794310	The Germanic tribe that played the most important role in establishing the foundations of European development	franks	178
3237797985	Clovis' conversion to Christianity led	to a century long relationship with popes in rome	179
3237802537	Which of the following statements is not true about Clovis	is true: led franks on a campaign that wiped out the last vestiges of roman authority in gaul, imposed his authority on the franks himself, organized campaigns against other germanic people whose states bordered their realm	180
3237805385	The influence of Clotilda, the wife of Clovis, is made apparent by his decision to	convert to christianity	181
3237808320	After the death of Clovis	the frankish kings lost much of their authority, and aristocratic warriors seized effective control of affairs in their region	182
3237815565	The Carolingian dynasty is named for	charles martel	183
3237818558	Charlemagne's temporarily restored centralized imperial rule, much like	king harsha in india	184
3237821936	Who made the following statement? "For I have invoked my own gods, but, as I see, they have withdrawn from aiding me..."	clovis	185
3237824315	Charlemagne maintained diplomatic relations with	the byzantine empire and the abbasid caliphate	186
3237826614	Acahen was the location of	capital of his empire	187
3237830781	Charlemagne's administration	temporarily reestablished centralized imperial rule	188
3237836322	Charlemagne was able to impose his rule on the Saxons of northern Germany after a campaign that lasted	32 years	189
3237837887	Missi dominici,	envoys of the lord ruler	190
3237844671	Imperial officials responsible for reviewing the accounts of local authorities	missi dominici	191
3237848647	When presented with the imperial crown, it is possible Charlemagne	became emperor	192
3237853178	Pope Leo III	on christmas day 800 gave charlemagne the imperial crown	193
3237855024	Louis the Pious	kept the carolingian empire together, but lost control of the counts and other local authorities	194
3237857861	The Carolingian Empire dissolved after the death	of Louis the Pouis	195
3237860543	Which three groups invaded Europe in the ninth century?	muslims, magyars, vikings	196
3237863711	During the ninth and tenth centuries, Constantinople was raided at least three times by the	vikings	197
3237866688	The westernmost point of Viking expansion	greenland and north america	198
3237868659	About the year 1000 CE,	established a colony in newfoundland vikings	199
3237872630	In the ninth century, King Alfred	unified england	200
3237875845	The foundation of the Holy Roman Empire was marked	when otto received a crown from the pope	201
3237878271	At the battle of Lechfeld in 955	saxony defeated the magyars	202
3237880536	Feudalism once referred to	the political and social order of medieval europe	203
3237881806	Responsibility for maintaining order in medieval society fell to	lords	204
3237886416	The most important relationship in feudalism was between	lords and retainers	205
3237889518	Serfs were	grants lands to retainers	206
3237892480	Retainers owed loyalty, obedience, and military service to his lord in exchange for	grants	207
3237896273	The medieval political system	was a decentralized society	208
3237899616	Agricultural production in Europe increased, in large part, due	to increase in food supply	209
3237902993	The population of Europe rose to thirty six million by the year	1000	210
3237904967	Pope Gregory I	provided the roman church with a sense of direction by reasserting papal primacy	211
3237906585	The Rule came from	st. benedict	212
3237909180	The nun St. Scholastica	the benedictine rule was spread to women living in convents	213