Chapter 8

Question 0

Silk was first produced in

Answer 0

China

Question 1

what term refers to the land-based routes that crossed Eurasia linking the Mediterranean basin to China

Answer 1

Silk Road

Question 2

what form of Buddhism which florist along the silk roads, features Buddha as a deity, numerous bodhisattvas, emphasis on compassion, and the possibility of earning merit

Answer 2

Mahayana

Question 3

One third or more of the population of Europe died of what between 1346 and 1350?

Answer 3

The black death

Question 4

The Indian Ocean sea roads trade network was made possible by alternating wind currents known as ____ which allowed merchants to sail across the Indian Ocean easily unpredictably

Answer 4

the monsoons

Question 5

_____ was the fulcrum at the center of the Indian Ocean trade network

Answer 5

India

Question 6

____ was a sought-after trade product from East Africa in the Indian Ocean trade network

Answer 6

ivory

Question 7

_____was a sought after trade products from China in the Indian Ocean trade network

Answer 7

porcelain

Question 8

_____Was a sought after trade product from South East Asia in the Indian Ocean trade network

Answer 8

nutmeg

Question 9

efforts to reclaim wasteland in Mesopotamia to produce sugar and dates for export stimulated the export of what from East Africa

Answer 9

slaves

Question 10

which Kingdom dominated the Straits of Malacca between 670 and 1025 CE

Answer 10

Srivijaya

Question 11

emerging in the eighth century which civilization took shape as a number of independent commercial city states along the East African coast?

Answer 11

Swahili

Question 12

The Swahili civilization rapidly became what religion setting it culturally apart from neighboring societies in the interior of East Africa

Answer 12

muslim

Question 13

_____ what is a powerful kingdom in the African interior who’s emergence was in part connected to growing trade in gold to the E. African coast

Answer 13

Great Zimbabwe

Question 14

North African Arab traders organized Camel caravans across the Sahara primarily to trade for

Answer 14

gold

Question 15

The introduction of what to north Africa in the early centuries of the common era proved to be a major turning point in the trans Saharan trade facilitating a substantial increase in trade between the Mediterranean basin an equatorial west Africa

Answer 15

camel

Question 16

before the 1440s slaves in West Europe

Answer 16

where primarily drawn from Slavic speaking regions of East Europe

Question 17

evidence of at least indirect connection between the civilizations of Mesoamerica in the Andes before the arrival of Europeans include

Answer 17

The spread of maze from Mesoamerica to the Andes

Question 18

_____was a kingdom in South East Asia

Answer 18

Sailendra

Question 19

located at the confluence of the Mississippi, Illinois and Missouri rivers ______ lay at the center of a widespread trading network in north America

Answer 19

Cahokia

Question 20

long-distance trade generated change between 500 and 1500 CE because

Answer 20

it motivated the creation of states, affected day today working lives of many people, became vehicle for spread of ideas and disease

all of the above

Question 21

which of the following is true of the silk roads

Answer 21

it was largely a relay trade route in which goods were passed down the line

Question 22

what was true of silk

Answer 22

it was used as currency and a means of accumulating wealth in Central Asia

Question 23

what was not a factor that facilitated the spread of Buddhism along the silk roads

Answer 23

followers of Zoroastrian face embraced Buddhism in large numbers

Question 24

as it spread along the silk roads Buddhism had its earliest impact of three large scale conversion of the local population

Answer 24

in oasis towns of central Asia

Question 25

in regard to the spread of Buddhism along the silk roads

Answer 25

The gods of many local people along the silk roads were incorporated into Buddhism practice

Question 26

The exchange of diseases along the silk roads

Answer 26

ultimately gave Western Europeans an advantage in later centuries when they confronted peoples of Western Hemisphere who had not been exposed to the diseases of silk roads

Question 27

which of the following was not an important reason trade route before 1450

Answer 27

The Atlantic Ocean Road across the eastern Atlantic between Europe and equatorial west Africa

Question 28

in contrast to the silk roads, sea roads of the Indian Ocean

Answer 28

carried more products for a mass-market rather than just luxury goods

Question 29

during the first centuries CE

Answer 29

Indian Ocean trade picked up, Christianity traveled along Indian Ocean trade routes, Chinese merchants started to trade in India

Question 30

China contributed to the growth of trade in the Indian Ocean between 500 and 1500 CE in all except which of the following ways

Answer 30

The Chinese state under the tang and song dynasties prohibited merchants from traveling along the silk Road, effectively forcing them to trade along the Indian Ocean trade routes

Question 31

The sudden rise of Islam in the seventh century CE had an impact on Indian Ocean commerce because

Answer 31

muslim merchants and sailors established communities of traders from East Africa to the southern China coast

Question 32

Indian cultural influence in Southeast Asia

Answer 32

was a matter of voluntary adoption and adaption of Indian religious, philosophical, and political ideas by independent societies that found them useful

Question 33

Swahili civilization emerged

Answer 33

as a number of rival independent cities

Question 34

all of the states that emerged in west Africa after 500 CE

Answer 34

Drew upon the wealth of the trans Saharan trade

Question 35

Mesoamerica and the Andes

Answer 35

seem to have had little direct contact with each other

Question 36

in which a third wave civilization did the state largely controlled trade, not allowing a professional merchant class to emerge

Answer 36

The Inca Empire

Question 37

at its height of my estimate was Asian traded along which of the following networks

Answer 37

seaborne trade network with a south American Indian civilizations and a land-based trade with teotihuacán in Central Mexico

Question 38

despite other difficulties, long-distance trade in the Americas was facilitated by

Answer 38

none of the above

Question 39

The emergence of the silk Road was facilitated by

Answer 39

The expansion of China into central Asia during the Han Dynasty in an effort to control the nomadic Xiongnu