Lash World History Advanced Study Guide Flashcards

4766696121	The trade conducted along the Silk Roads was largely trade because	a) goods were passed down the line rather than carried by one merchant along the entire route	0
4766696122	Which of the following luxury goods came to symbolize the Eurasian exchange system	a) silk	1
4766696123	Swahili civilization was most heavily influenced by which of the following cultures	a) Bantu	2
4766696124	The states that emerged in West Africa between 500-1600 shared which of the following characteristics	a) A reputation in the wider world for great riches	3
4766696125	How did the sudden rise of Islam in the seventh century affect Indian Ocean Commerce	a) Muslim merchants and sailors established communities of traders from East Africa to the south China coast	4
4766696126	Which of the following is an example of the Indianization of Southeast Asia	a) The architectural expression of Hinduism at Angkor Wat	5
4766696127	How did the Silk Road Trade affect peasants in China	a) Peasants focused more on producing luxury goods	6
4766696128	The Sand Roads linked North Africa and the Mediterranean world to the land and people of	a) interior West Africa	7
4766696129	Those who participated in the Chinese tribute system gained	a) the opportunity to trade with China	8
4766696130	Which of the following statements about the Chinese tribute system to true	a) The Chinese government often gave other states gifts that were in fact worth more than the tribute that those states paid to China	9
4766696131	How was the tribute system an expression of the Chinese view of themselves and their relationship to the world	a) The tribute system required non-Chinese to acknowledge Chinese superiority and their own subordinate place in a Chinese-centered world order	10
4766696132	Which of the following explains why women's lives were more restricted in the Song dynasty than in the Tang dynasty	a) the revival of confucianism	11
4766696133	Which of the following contributed to China's economic revolution during the Tang and Song dynasties	a) A complex network of internal waterways that provided cheap transportation	12
4766696134	In Song dynasty China, masculine identity came to be defined in terms of	a) calligraphy, scholarship, painting, and poetry	13
4766696135	Which of the following was a technological innovation that spread from China to the rest of Eurasia	a) Printing	14
4766696136	The emergence of the samurai reflected Japan's	a) decentralized political structure	15
4766696137	Membership in the Islamic community known as the umma was based on a common	a) faith	16
4766696138	What initiated the division within Islam between the Sunnis and Shias	a) Disagreement over who should assume leadership in the Islamic world	17
4766696139	Which of the following was a force that helped bind the Islamic world together	a) The system of Islamic education created by the ulama	18
4766696140	In which region was conversion to Islam motivated by a desire to expand trading networks rather than from the result of conquest and Islamic rule	a) West Africa	19
4766696141	Which of the following describes the effect of Islam on West Africa	a) Islam had the greatest influence on rulers and urban elites	20
4766696142	Which of the following was a force that helped bind the Islamic world together	a) The system of Islamic education created by the ulama	21
4766696143	Which of the following was a goal of the education offered at the madrassas	a) To preserve an established body of Islamic learning	22
4766696144	Which of the following was an Arab innovation	a) Algebra	23
4766696145	Which of the following was a long-term impact of the Crusades in Europe	a) Spain, Sicily, and the Baltic region permanently joined the world of Western Christendom	24
4766696146	In Europe after the fall of the Roman Empire, what system emerged that emphasized the reciprocal ties between a king and his vassals, and between a lord and serfs	a) Feudalism	25
4766696147	Caesaropapism	the idea of combining the power of secular government with the religious power, or making it superior to the spiritual authority of the Church; especially concerning the connection of the Church with government.	26
4766696148	Which of the following was evidence of the expansion and growth of European civilization during the High Middle Ages	a) there was a considerable increase in long-distance trade	27
4766696149	Which of the following characterizes the spread of Christianity throughout Western Europe from 500 to 1000	a) Earlier cultural practices were absorbed into the Christian tradition	28
4766696150	Technological changes in which field limited women's opportunities in Western Europe by the fifteenth century	a) weaving	29
4766696151	Which of the following is an example of a European innovation made possible by borrowing technologies from other civilizations	a) The use of gunpowder in cannons	30
4766696152	Which of the following features of the Byzantine Empire did the new civilization of Kievan Rus adopt	a) The political ideals of imperial control of the Church	31
4766696153	Which of the following was a long-term effect of the Black Death on European society	a) The weakening of serfdom	32
4766696154	Which of the following was a way in which the Mongols contributed to the globalization of the Eurasian world.	a) In providing a secure environment for traders, they facilitated long-distance international commerce	33
4766696155	Which of the following contributed to Temujin's rise to power and recognition as Chinggis Khan of the Great Mongol Nation	a) The incorporation of warriors from defeated tribes into his own forces	34
4766696156	Which of the following is an example of the Mongol rulers' policy toward people in the conquered territories	a) Chinese and Muslim officials were allowed to hold advisory positions in government	35
4766696157	What role did Mongol women play in the administration of the Mongol empire	a) they advised on government policies and court decisions	36
4766696158	What happened to the Mongols in Persia in the fourteenth century	a) The mongols assimilated into Persian society	37
4766696159	Which of the following regions experienced the least racial mixing and was the least willing to recognize the offspring of interaction unions	a) British North America	38
4766696160	Why did some Native Americans aid the Spanish in their initial invasion of the New World	a) To gain an advantage against their own enemies	39
4766696161	The colonial economy of the Spanish Empire in former Aztec and Inca lands was	a) based on commercial agriculture and mining	40
4766696162	How did many Native Americans in Mesoamerica and Peru respond to Spanish missionaries' efforts to convert them to Catholicism	a) They blended their old customs into Catholic practices	41
4766696163	The colonial economy of the Spanish Empire in former Aztec and Inca lands was	a) based on commercial agriculture and mining	42
4766696164	How did many Native Americans in Mesoamerica and Peru respond to Spanish missionaries' efforts to convert them to Catholicism	a) They blended their old customs into Catholic practices	43
4766696165	Which of the following motivated European to venture across the Atlantic ocean	a) rivalries between competing European states	44
4766696166	Which of the following describes slavery in Latin America	a) large-scale importation of new slaves continued into the nineteenth century	45
4766696167	In contrast to the Portuguese and Spanish colonists in Latin America, British colonists in North America	a) sought to escape rather than recreate European traditions in the Americas	46
4766696168	How did the Tokugawa shoguns treat Europeans in Japan in the early seventeenth century?	a) They expelled all Europeans except the Dutch	47
4766696169	How did silver from the mines of Mexico and Peru affect international commerce?	a) it enabled Europeans to buy Chinese tea, silk, and porcelain	48
4766696170	Which of the following describes an effect of the silver trade on Spain?	a) It enabled Spanish rulers to pursue military and political ambitions in Europe and the Americas	49
4766696171	How did silver from the mines of Mexico and Peru affect international commerce?	a) it enabled Europeans to buy Chinese tea, silk, and porcelain	50
4766696172	Which of the following is true of slavery in the premodern Islamic world?	a) some slaves acquired prominent military or political status	51
4766696173	Which of the following distinguished the Atlantic slave trade in the Americas from past instances of slavery in world history?	a) Slave status was associated with race	52