Chapter 21: Expanding Horizons of Cross-Cultural Interaction Flashcards

5323493326	What did the patterns of long-distance trade develop?	Trading cities and emporia	0
5323494772	What did the nomadic invasions cause?	Local devastation but it expanded the trade network	1
5323497583	What is an example of the nomadic invasions that caused a local devastation?	The Mongols in China, thirteenth century	2
5323500344	Who is Marco Polo?	Son of a merchant who entered the service of Mongol Khubilai Khan	3
5323536236	Who recorded Marco Polo's travels?	By a fellow prisoner in Venice-Genoa conflict/prison	4
5323540778	Who invited the Mongols to convert to Christianity?	Pope Innocent IV	5
5323545445	What was the Mongol's counter-offer of the invite of Christianity?	Christians accept Mongol rule or face destruction	6
5323553968	Who is Rabban Sauma?	Nestorian Christian priest who travelled for religious reasons	7
5323559122	Who is Ibn Battuta?	Islamic scholar who worked in governments on extensive travel	8
5323566096	What was the strict punishment based on?	Sharia law	9
5323568262	Who is John of Montecorvino?	Someone who travelled to China and translates Biblical texts and built churches	10
5323571163	What are troubadours?	People who go around singing songs and telling stories	11
5323576364	Where is the magnetic compass from?	China	12
5323580340	What caused the growth in slave trade?	The need for sugarcane	13
5323582204	What was the "little ice age"?	Decline of agricultural output leads to widespread famine	14
5323589140	What came from Southwest China, carried by fleas on rodents?	The Bubonic plague	15
5323624217	What was one consequence of starvation and poverty?	Susceptibility to disease	16
5323627640	What were the attempts to stop the plague?	A doctor's robe and "leeching"	17
5323636218	What does flagellanti mean?	Self-inflicted "penance" for our sins	18
5323639748	Who were the pogroms?	People against the Jews	19
5323641664	How many people died because of the Bubonic plague?	25,000,000 dead	20
5323643318	What was the mortality rate of the Bubonic plague?	35% - 70%	21
5323646588	What were the political, economic, and social effects of the Bubonic plague?	Massive labor shortage, demand for higher wages, population movements, and governments attempt to freeze wages/stop serf movements	22
5323654877	What was a result of the governments attempting to freeze wages?	Riots	23
5323693042	What was the Ming dynasty also called?	The "brilliant" dynasty	24
5323715829	What are mandarins?	Emissaries	25
5323719079	What was there a heavy reliance on in the reestablished Ming dynasty?	Eunuchs	26
5323723770	In the reestablished Ming dynasty, what system was reestablished, as well?	Confucian educational system	27
5323743749	Who commissioned the Encyclopedia?	Emperor Yongle	28
5323753990	Was China centralized or decentralized?	Centralized	29
5323757430	Who had an army of 15,000?	French Louis XI	30
5323765030	How was Philip of Valois selected as king?	The French nobility selected him, a cousin of the last king through the male line	31
5323774387	What title did King Edward III of England claim?	"King of France"	32
5323784781	What was the conflict with Flanders?	Flanders wanted its independence from french control	33
5323791238	What was the war's characteristics?	Series of short raids and expeditions punctuated by a few major battles, marked off by truces or ineffective treaties	34
5323806643	What was the battle of Poitiers?	Repeat of Crécy; resulted in the capture of the French king	35
5323812146	When the French king was captured, who was France ruled by?	The Estates general	36
5323857553	Who was the French king that was captured?	John II	37
5323861306	What was the purpose of the Estates general being in charge?	To secure the funds for the war	38
5323865255	Why was Richard II forced to abdicate?	He was charged with tyranny	39
5323873567	Which house was Henry IV from?	The House of Lancaster	40
5323877659	What was the result of the war?	A truce was signed ending both the French and British nobilities	41
5323885830	What was the treaty that ended that battle of Agincourt?	Treaty of Troyes	42
5323887959	What was the first major French victory?	The battle of Orléans	43
5323893698	Who was Joan of Arc?	A woman who dressed like a man and was Charles' most feared military leader	44
5323910144	Who worked with real human anatomy and musculature?	leonardo da Vinci	45
5323912880	What was the architecture of the renaissance period?	Domed cathedrals	46
5323916952	Who were the Humanists?	Those who believed in the rejection of monastic lifestyle in favor of morally virtuous life while engaged in the world	47
5323923406	What did Desiderius Erasmus do?	A man who published critical Greek-latin edition of the New Testament	48