Chapter 1 and 2 Flashcards
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
Which of the following cultures produced a written language
Maya
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
Which element of Hinduism did Buddhism reject
The religious authority of the Brahmins
Disagreements over the meaning of the Buddha’s teachings led to?
A proliferation of different sects,practices. and mediation techniques
What actions would a follower of Daosim take
Withdraw from politics
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
Which of the following describes a feature of pastoral societies
Animal husbandry
what describes the relationship between Daoism and Confucianism as understood by Chinese elites
Daoism and Confucianism ere regarded as complementary rather than contradictory.
What did the Aztec empire require conquered people to do
Pay tribute
Islam had roots in which set of religious or philosophical traditions
Judaism and Christianity
What describes the relationship between the civilizations in Mesoamerica and those in the Andes.
They had little if any direct contact with each other
In the centuries following 500 C.E Europeans borrowed the technology of iron horseshoes from which of the folowwing
China
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.
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.
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.
Membership in the Islamic community known as the umma was based on a common
belief
What contributed to chinas economic prosperity during the song dynasty.
A complex network of internal waterways that provided cheap transportation
What was a long term impact of the Crusades in Europe
Spain,Sicily, and the Baltic region permanently joined the world of Western Christendom.
What rulers based their authority on the mandate of heaven
China
The territory of ancient Mesopotamia is presently occupied by which country
Iraq
Western Europe from 1000 1300 power was divided among
Kings,nobles,and church leaders
What express a view of woman found in the Quran
Woman were spiritually equal to men
What includes a distinctively supernatural dimension
Mahayana Buddhism
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
