Chapter 14

Question 0

Unlike the Romans on the western part of the empire, the eastern Roman Empire or Byzantine empire

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Did not succumb to Germanic invasions in the 5th centuries

Question 1

Common elements in African societies included all of these except:

Answer 1

Settled ag as a way of life across most of Africa

Question 2

As had hammurabis code (Mesopotamia) justinians code (Byzantine)

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Became the basic law and unified code for states which existed free it’s original creator

Question 3

The period known as the Middle Ages in Europe

Answer 3

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

Question 4

During much of the early Middle Ages the literate population

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Was confine to the clergy and monasteries Of the catholic clergy

Question 5

Manorialism was characterized by all of these condition EXCEPT:

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Manors and peasants depended on merchants for most necessities

Question 6

Serfs differed from slaves in that

Answer 6

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

Question 7

New ag techniques and technologies introduced during the Middle Ages included all of these EXCEPT:

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More nutritious foods from the Americas as potatoes and corn

Question 8

The growth o towns in Europe after the 10th century CE

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Weakened the feudal system as towns were outside the feudal system

Question 9

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

Question 10

Although later civilization in mesoamerica borrows and built on the previous accomplishments of the olmecs and maya later civilizations

Answer 10

Rarely surpassed previous intellectual predecessors

Question 11

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

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

Question 12

For the mesoamericans of the Aztec period religion

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Was oppressive and made little distinction between the sacred and secular

Question 13

In order to supply good to Tenochtitlan the Aztecs

Answer 13

Built floating ag islands on the lake

Question 14

Because other level of technological development, Aztec work and production

Answer 14

Relied heavily on the physical labor of humans

Question 15

Demographic evidence of the Aztec empire around 1500 CE indicates

Answer 15

An extremely high pop density

Question 16

One reason offered for the expansion of the inca state was

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Religious practices of the incas included all of these attributes EXCEPT:

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Monotheism

Question 18

Notably absent in inca society was a class of

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Merchants