Chapter 9

Question 1

The words first written civil service examination system, instituted by the Tang Dynasty to recruit officials bureaucrats.

Answer 1

Civil service examinations

Question 2

Open to most males, these tested a candidates literacy skills and knowledge of Confucian classics.

Answer 2

Civil service examinations

Question 3

They helped to unite the Chinese state by making knowledge of a specific language and Confucian classics the only route to power.

Answer 3

Civil service examinations

Question 4

The head of the religious community

Answer 4

Ummmah

Question 5

Loyal and well paid men who were surgically castrated as youths and remained in service to the caliph emperor.

Answer 5

Eunuchs

Question 6

Both the Tang and Abbasid rulers relied for protection on a cadre of these people.

Answer 6

Eunuchs

Question 7

The five tenets, or main aspects, of Islamic practice

Answer 7

Five pillars of Islam

Question 8

Enduring form of Christianity that used the framework of the Roman state inherited from Constantine and Justinian to protect itself from Roman Catholic and Muslim forces.

Answer 8

Greek Orthodoxy

Question 9

It’s capital was Constantine and its spiritual empire included the Russian people’s, Baltic Slavs, and people’s living in southwest Asia.

Answer 9

Greek Orthodox

Question 10

Christian way of life that originated in Egypt and was practiced as early as 300 CE in the Mediterranean.

Answer 10

Monasticism

Question 11

The word itself contains the meaning of a person “living alone” without marriage or family.

Answer 11

Monasticism

Question 12

Branch of Christianity established by 1000CE in Western Europe and led by the roman papacy.

Answer 12

Roman Catholic Church

Question 13

Literally “the way”, now used to indicate the philosophy and rulings of Islamic law

Answer 13

Sharia

Question 14

Group of supporters of Ali, Muhammad’s cousin and son in law, who wanted him to be the first caliph and believed that members of the prophets family deserved to rule.

Answer 14

Shiites

Question 15

Leaders of the Shiite communities

Answer 15

Imam

Question 16

Orthodox Muslims. The majority sect of Islamthat originally supported the succession of Abu Bakr over Ali and supported the rule of consensus rather than family lineage for the succession to the Islamic caliphate

Answer 16

Sunnis

Question 17

A people from Scandinavia who replaced the franks as the dominate warrior class in Northern Europe in the ninth century CE

Answer 17

Vikings

Question 18

They used their superior ships to loot other seagoing people’s and sailed up the rivers of Russia to establish a trade route that connected Scandinavia and the Baltic with Constantinople and Baghdad.

Answer 18

Vikings

Question 19

Boats that went across the Indian Ocean by the Abbasids

Answer 19

Daos

Question 20

Original inhabitants of Islam that were nomads herding sheep

Answer 20

Bedouin

Question 21

Outlined Muhammad’s teaching

Answer 21

Quran

Question 22

Holy war

Answer 22

Jihad

Question 23

1st Caliph of Islam

Answer 23

Abu Bakr

Question 24

Capital of Islam in the Abbasids rule

Answer 24

Baghdad

Question 25

Institution that arose as the successor to Muhammad’s leadership and became both the political and religious head of the Islamic community.

Answer 25

Caliphate