Chapter 1 and 2 Flashcards by Nathan Birge

Which of the following refers to a conception of the divine around judasim

An understanding of God as engaged in history and demanding social justice

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Which of the following cultures produced a written language

Maya

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Which of the following explains why woman’s lives were more restricted in the song dynasty than in the previous dynasty

The revival on Confucianism

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Which element of Hinduism did Buddhism reject

The religious authority of the Brahmins

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Disagreements over the meaning of the Buddha’s teachings led to?

A proliferation of different sects,practices. and mediation techniques

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What actions would a follower of Daosim take

Withdraw from politics

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What describies the process of conversion to Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Kevan rus

It was a freely made decision on part of Prince Vladimir of Kiev, who chose Eastern orthodox Christianity to unify his people

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Which of the following describes a feature of pastoral societies

Animal husbandry

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what describes the relationship between Daoism and Confucianism as understood by Chinese elites

Daoism and Confucianism ere regarded as complementary rather than contradictory.

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What did the Aztec empire require conquered people to do

Pay tribute

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Islam had roots in which set of religious or philosophical traditions

Judaism and Christianity

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What describes the relationship between the civilizations in Mesoamerica and those in the Andes.

They had little if any direct contact with each other

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In the centuries following 500 C.E Europeans borrowed the technology of iron horseshoes from which of the folowwing

China

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what explains why conflict was frequent between pastoral societies and agricultural societies

Pastoral societies wanted the food crops and manufactured goods produced by agricultural societies.

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What describes the transformation of the Turkic people from the tenth to the fourteenth centuries

They changed from polytheistic worshipers to followers and carries of a monotheistic Islam.

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In what respect was japans borrowing of Chinese culture different from the experiences of Korea and Vietnam

Japans borrowing was wholly voluntary rather than occurring under conditions of direct military threat or outright occupation.

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Membership in the Islamic community known as the umma was based on a common

belief

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What contributed to chinas economic prosperity during the song dynasty.

A complex network of internal waterways that provided cheap transportation

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What was a long term impact of the Crusades in Europe

Spain,Sicily, and the Baltic region permanently joined the world of Western Christendom.

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What rulers based their authority on the mandate of heaven

China

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The territory of ancient Mesopotamia is presently occupied by which country

Iraq

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Western Europe from 1000 1300 power was divided among

Kings,nobles,and church leaders

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What express a view of woman found in the Quran

Woman were spiritually equal to men

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What includes a distinctively supernatural dimension

Mahayana Buddhism

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What did Buddhism and Christianity have in common

They both started out as an effort to reform the religious from which they had come but soon emerged as separate religions.

which belief system focused more on affairs of this world than on the realm of the divine and its relationship to human life.

Confucianism

What is the belief system focused more on affairs of this world than on the realm of the divine and its relationship to human life

Confucianism

What is a feature of Islam that ran counter to Hinduism in India.

The notion of the equality of all believers.

What refers the the pilgrimage to mecca that Muslims should try to make at least once in their lifetime.

Hajj

Buddhism and Hinduism and similar because they both

Offered hope for final release from the cycle of rebirth

What is a value emphasized in the Renaissance

Individualism

What was a feature of society during the Paleolithic era?

Relative egalitarianism.

What is the force that helped bind the Islamic world together

The system of Islamic education created by the ulama

What contributed to the doubling of the Chinese population during the Tang and Song dynasties.

The adoption of a fast ripening strain of rice from Vietnam.

What is an example of a role assumed by the ulama?

Judge

The agricultural Revoulution occurred independently in various parts of the world between?

12,000 and 4,000 years ago

During the sixteenth century the Ottoman Empire extended its control to which of the following

North America

What did Confucius and Siddhartha have in common

They were historical and Siddhartha Gautama have in common

In song dynasty China, masculine identity came to the defined in terms of

Calligraphy, scholarship, painting, and poetry.

The Mahayana version portrayed the Buddha as a?

God

What feature of the Byzantine Empire did the new civilization of Kievan Rus adopt.

The political ideals of imperial control of the church

What describes Korea's relationship with china in the Premodern period.

Korea adopted elements of Chinese culture while still retaining a distinctive culture and separate political existence

What is a reason the song dynasty is regarded as a golden age in China?

The setting of standards of excellence in art and literature.

What was evidence of the expansion and growth of European civilization during the high Middle Ages?

Most of the North Africa converted to Christianity.

What describes a feature of the Byzantine State

The emperor claimed to be God's representative on earth.

In Europe after the fail of the Roman Empire, what system emerged that emphasized the reciprocal ties between a king and his vassals and between a lord and his serfs

Feudalism

The wars carried out by the Aztec Empire were linked to the

Practice of human sacrifice

What was a political contribution of the Song dynasty?

The construction of a state structure that lasted until the twentieth century.

What was the technological changes in which filed limited women opportunities in western Europe by the fifteenth century.

Weaving

What describes how Confucianism affected Chinese society?

Confucianism placed a high value on education and ritual.

In what way were the aztec and inca empires simalir

both were marginal peoples who conquered and absorbed older cultures

What would woman do in both aztec and inca empires?

Exercise political authority

The Inca and Aztec empires practiced similar gender based systems in which woman and men operated in two separate but equivalent spheres, a system that scholars call?

Gender Parallelism

What did the Inca Empire do that the aztec Empire did not do?

Build a bureaucracy to integrate and control its subjects.

What is a central feature of the Hindu notion of karma?

Samsara(rebirth)

What describes both pastoral and agricultural village societies?

Both possessed relatively egalitarian social structures with few social distinctions.

What did Korea, Japan, and Vietnam develop that reflected their unique culture?

Their own writing systems.

The emergence of the samurai reflected Japans...?

Decentralized political stucture

What is a text associated with Hinduism?

Bhagavad Gita

Besides Islam, which of the following was also a target of Western European Crusaders?

Eastern Orthodox Christianity

What contributed to the decline of Buddhism in Idia?

Buddhism was absorbed into reviving Hinduism

What provided the primary economic foundation for civilization

Agriculture

What describes a feature of chiefdoms

The collection of tribute from commoners

What common feature did pastoral and agricultural societies share?

Organization of society based kingdom.

What is a distinctive feature of sufism?

The pursuit of an interior life in order to attain spiritual initial with Allah.

What brought the Byzantine Empire to the end?

The capture of constaniople by the Ottoman Empire

What society during the age of agriculture is considered to have a distinct element of inequality?

Cheifdoms

What describes the relationship between politics and religion in western Europe from 500 to 1300

Rulers provided protection for the church in return for religious legitimacy.

What is an example of European innovation made possible by borrowing technologies from other civilizations?

The use of gun powder in cannons.

The emergence of which practice during the song dynasty suggest that Chinese women's lives were more restricted that they had been in the previous dynasty.

Foot binding