semester exam pt1

Question 1

china’s strength

Answer 1

imperial bureaucracy

Question 2

Song Dynasty

Answer 2

Meritocracy
Demonstrate merit on civil service exams

Question 3

Champa Rice

Answer 3

2 crops of rice per year
1 in the summer
1 in the winter

Question 4

Song Dynasty had the greatest…

Answer 4

Manufacturing company in the world
Cast iron goods

Question 5

Who made the first guns with gunpowder?

Answer 5

Song Dynasty

Question 6

Tributes

Answer 6

other states pay money/provide goods to honor the Chinese emperor

Question 7

Foot binding

Answer 7

Prevented women’s feet from growing naturally

Question 8

What did foot binding signify?

Answer 8

Social status,
Restricted participation in the public sphere

Question 9

Wood block printing

Answer 9

People in China can make multiple copies of art/text without copying by hand

Question 10

Buddhism

Answer 10

Popular in tang dynasty

Question 11

Theravada Buddhism

Answer 11

Personal, spiritual growth through meditation and discipline

Question 12

Mahayana Buddhism

Answer 12

Spiritual growth for all beings

Question 13

Tibetan Buddhism

Answer 13

Chanting
Strongest in Tibet

Question 14

Zen/Chan Buddhism

Answer 14

Direct experience and meditation

Question 15

All Buddhism types followed

Answer 15

The four noble truths (personal suffering is alleviated by eliminating cravings/desires)

eightfold path (speech, effort, etc, Nirvana)

Question 16

Neo Confucianism

Answer 16

Rational thought + Daoism and Buddhism

Question 17

House of wisdom

Answer 17

Abbasid empire
scholars in Baghdad study

Question 18

Mamluk sultanate

Answer 18

Mamluks in Egypt, prospered by facilitating trade in cotton and sugar

Question 19

How did the Mamluk sultanate decline?

Answer 19

Portuguese developed new sea routes for trade

Question 20

Sufis

Answer 20

Grasp truths that can’t be learned by introspection (examination of one’s emotional processes)
Won many Muslim converts
Can be Muslim & still honor local deities

Question 21

Bhakti movement

Answer 21

Hindu reform movement
doesn’t discriminate
one particular deity

Question 22

Delhi sultanate

Answer 22

Brought Islam to India

Question 23

Vijayanagara Empire

Answer 23

Born Hindu, converted to Islam
Victorious city

Question 24

Aztecs

Answer 24

Hunter gatherers, aqueducts, pyramids
Chinampas
Used lake water to irrigate their fields

Question 25

Aztec government

Answer 25

Theocracy (ruled by religious leaders)

Question 26

Aztec religion

Answer 26

The gods sacrificed themselves to create the world

Question 27

Aztec women

Answer 27

Wove cloth used to pay tribute
some were scribes to royal female family members

Question 28

Aztec decline

Answer 28

Low technology,
resentment of conquered people

Question 29

Incas system

Answer 29

Mit’a system -mandatory public service

Question 30

Who is the most important god in the Incas?

Answer 30

The sun god

Question 31

What was animism (Incas)?

Answer 31

The elements of the physical world can have supernatural powers

Question 32

Education in the Incas

Answer 32

Record a numerical info
Terrace systems,
redirected rain,
good builders of bridges in roads

Question 33

Inca decline

Answer 33

Conquistador, Francisco Pizarro

Question 34

Mayan government

Answer 34

City – states (ruled by a king, city + its surrounding territory)

Question 35

Carpa Nan (Incas)

Answer 35

Massive roadway system, mainly used by the government and military

Question 36

Ghana

Answer 36

Gold and Ivory to Muslim traders for salt, copper, clothes, tools
Centralized government
iron weapons

Question 37

Mali see 2.4

Answer 37

Wealthy (Sundiata)
Powerful trading society
Most residents were farmers, who cultivated Sorghum and rice
Timbuktu- center of Islamic learning, books sold

Question 38

Swahili

Answer 38

Bantu + Arabic language
Made by East African traders

Question 39

Indian Ocean Slave Trade

Answer 39

East Africa & Middle East
Slaves worked on sugar plantations in Mesopotamia
Zanj Rebellion

Question 40

Feudalism

Answer 40

Exchanges of land for loyalty
Monarchs grant fiefs (tracts of land) to lords
Lords become vassals (service to the person of higher status), protect and provide land to peasants
Knights = vassals of lords
Peasants farm the land & provide with crops & livestock, obey the lord
Code of Chivalry-unwritten set of rules of loyalty
Women didn’t have many rights

Question 41

3 Field System

Answer 41

1st field- wheat/rye (food crops)
2nd field- peas, lentils, beans (fertile soil bc of nitrogen)
3rd- allowed to remain unused each year

Question 42

Manorial System (manors)

Answer 42

Manors produce everything ppl living on it required
Peasants were serfs and were tied to the land, need permission from lords to travel

Question 43

Magna Carta

Answer 43

King must respect certain rights
Right to jury trial before a noble fan be sentenced to prison
Right to be consulted on an issue of scutage (tax paid on a knight who wanted to pay money instead of providing military service)

Question 44

Magnetic Compass, Junk, Rudder

Answer 44

Designed by Chinese scientists in the Han Dynasty
Rudder was improved

Compass- calculated latitude
Rudder- helped aid navigation & ship control
Junk- a boat w/ divisions that made it stronger against rough voyages at sea

Question 45

Flying Cash (Chinese Government)

Answer 45

Merchants can deposit paper $ under his name in 1 location, withdraw the same amount in another location