Period 3 Flashcards

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What was an important change in Afro-Eurasia from 700 C.E. to 1000 C.E.

A

Islam expanded through military conquests, merchant activity, and missionary efforts

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Which of the following most directly contributed to the decline of Eurasian urban populations during the fourteenth century

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Epidemic disease

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3
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What best describes a difference between the Silk Roads and Indian Ocean trade network from 500 C.E. to 1000C.E.

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The Silk Roads were largely limited to luxury goods, while Indian Ocean routes could carry bulk goods

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A historian researching the effects of the Crusades on the diffusion of technology would probably find which of the following sources most useful

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Monks’ translations of Arabic mathematics texts brought from conquered territories

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5
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What is an example of forced labor for the state during period 600 C.E. to 1450 C.E.

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Serfdom arose as an alternative form of coerced labor in parts of Europe and East Asia

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Malian Emperor Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage to Mecca in 1324 can best be understood in the context of which of the following

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The expansion of Islam throughout Afro-Eurasia

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What is an accurate comparison of the Byzantine and Tang Empire

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Both ruled using traditional sources of power and administrative innovations

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What is an example of forced labor for the state during the period 600 C.E. to 1450 C.E.

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The mit’a system of Andean cultures

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9
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What processes contributed to the emergence of syncretic and new religions in both the Eastern and Western Hemisphere during the sixteenth century

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Increases in global interactions

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10
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What factors helps explains the rise of urban centers and the increase in trade in Afro-Eurasia during the second half of the thirteenth century

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The availability of safe and reliable transport along land-based trade routes

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Abbasid reliance on Persian bureaucrats and the introduction of Confucianism to Japanese political institutions both illustrate which of the following process

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The synthesis of foreign political traditions in the formation for new states

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12
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In time the Eastern Roman Empire became known as the

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Byzantine Empire

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13
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Historians who argue that there was substantial global integration by the end of the thirteenth century would most likely cite which of the following as evidence to support their claim

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The widening and deepening of exchange networks liking Afro-Eurasia after the Mongol conquests

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14
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The early fourteenth century was troubled by

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The “little ice age”

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15
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The practice of ‘binding feet’ can be viewed in the context of the

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Neo-Confucianism emphasis on patriarchal fender norms

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16
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What played a similar role to ‘foot binding’

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Forbidding women from mixing with men outside of their family

17
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What would be considered a challenge to the ideals supporting binding women’s feet

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Buddhist nuns participating in religious rituals

18
Q

The building of the Hagia Sophia by Emperor Justinian illustrates which of the following concepts
(The excerpt – Rus advisors to Prince Vladimir)

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Imperial governments used religious institutions to legitimize their rule