Chapter 14

Question 0

Unlike the Romans in the Western part of the empire, the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantine Empire

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Did not surcome to Germanic invasions in the 5th centuries

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Common elements in African societies included all of these except

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Settled agriculture as a way of life across most of Africa

Question 2

As had Hammurabi’s Code (Mesopotamia), Justinian’s Code (Byzantine)

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Became the basic law and unified code for states, which existed after its original creator

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Unlike monarchs in Catholic Western Europe but like the Muslim caliphs, the Byzantine emperor

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Headed both church and state; there was no separation of power

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The period known as the Middle Ages in Europe

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Began with the fall of Rome and ended with the decline of the feudal and religious institutions

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During much of the early Middle Ages, the literate population

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Was confined to the clergy and monasteries of the Catholic Church

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Manorialism was characterized by all of these conditions except

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Manors and peasants depended on merchants for most necessities

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Serfs differed from slaves in that

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They could not be bought or sold, and owned some of the land they farmed

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New agricultural techniques and technologies introduced during the Middle Ages included all of these except

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More nutritious foods from the Americas such as potatoes and corn

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The growth of towns in Europe after the 10th century C.E.

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Weakened the feudal system as towns were outside the feudal system

Question 10

The major lasting result if the Crusades was the

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Establishment of cultural and economic contacts between Western Europe and the Middle East

Question 11

When scholars began to study Greek classics, most early West European intellectuals and scholastics

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Found the Greek notion of reason troubling because it questions faith

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Although later civilizations in Mesoamerica borrowed and built on the previous accomplishments of the Olmecs and Maya, later civilizations

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Rarely surpassed previous intellectual predecessors

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In the Aztec state, the military, monarchs, and aristocrats

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Manipulated human sacrifice and used terror as a means to maintain power

Question 14

For the Mesoamericans of the Aztec period, religion

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Was oppressive and made little distinction between the sacred and secular

Question 15

In order to supply food to Tenochtitlan, the Aztecs

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Built floating agricultural islands on the lake

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Because if their level if technological development, Aztec work and production

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Relied heavily on the physical labor of humans

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Demographic evidence of the Aztec empire around 1500 C.E. indicates

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An extremely high population density

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One reason offered for the expansion of the Inca state was

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Each new Inca ruler had to secure new land and wealth for himself

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Religious practices of the Incas included all of these attributes except

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Monotheism

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Notably absent in Inca society was a class of

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Merchants