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TEST 4 Flashcards

1
Q

Which of the following is not true concerning Chinese society after the fall of the Han dynasty.

A

Buddhism waned In popularity

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2
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How did Buddhism come to china

A

The Silk Road

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3
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Who reunited china in 581

A

Yang Jian

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4
Q

The grand canal was constructed during ____ dynasty

A

sui

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5
Q

During the Tang dynasty China excised either direct or indirect influence over all the following areas except

A

India

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6
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The capital of the tang empire, and possibly the greatest city in the world at that time was:

A

Chang’an

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7
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approximately, what was the population of china during the song dynasty

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40 million

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8
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which of the following statements about the Song dynasty is not true

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military and political problems contributed to economics chaos

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9
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which of the following was not one of the ministries in the Chinese department of state affairs

A

farming

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10
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what was the civil service exam based upon during the Song dynasty

A

Confucian Texts

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11
Q

What was the lowest official of the Chinese government during the Tang and Song period

A

Magistrate

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12
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In the 11th century the reformist ___ attempted to limit the size of landholdings through land taxes

A

Wang Anshi

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13
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The tang introduced the ___ system in return for an annual tax payment and three weeks of conscript labor from the peasant

A

“Equal field”

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13
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Which of the following was introduced during the Tang period?

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Gunpowder, paper currency, steel and cotton

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13
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what was “Genghis Khan” mean

A

Universal Ruler

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13
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which of the following statements about the economy and society during the Tang and Song dynasties is not true?

A

Society remained exclusively rural

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14
Q

who was Wu Zhao

A

Empress of china

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14
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During the Tang and Song dynasties, this group became the most influential

A

landed gentry

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14
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The old Chinese saying “Marry a chicken, follow the chicken; marry a dog, follow the dog.” represented

A

the inability of Chinese women to get a divorce

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14
Q

Who founded the ming dynasty

A

Zhu Yuanzhang

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14
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The Mongols ruled china as the ___ dynasty

A

Yuan

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14
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___ buddhism called for mind training and a strict regimen as a means of seeing enlightenment

A

Chan

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14
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who was the leading proponent of Neo-confucianism?

A

Zhu Xi

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14
Q

What is the first printed book?

A

A buddhist text

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14
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The ___ were the earliest known neolithic inhabitants of Japan and were named for the cord pattern of their pottery

A

Jomon

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14
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___ describes heroic bandits who take money from the rich and gave it to the poor

A

tale of the marshes

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14
Q

the Japanese emperors were beloved to be descended from the sun goddess:

A

Amaterasu

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14
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Which of the following is the true of the Yayoi

A

Mixture of Jomon and new arrivals

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14
Q

Which Chinese dynasty was first seen as a threat by the Japanese

A

Tang

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15
Q

which of the following is not one of the main Japanese home islands

A

Osaka

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15
Q

The line “When an imperial command is given, obey it with reverence,” comes from the:

A

17- article constitution

15
Q

Yayoi clans were called

A

Uji

15
Q

Prince Shotoku sent emissaries from Japan to ____ in order to learn about centralized political institutions

A

China

16
Q

who introduced the seventeen-article constitution to Japan

A

Shook Taishi

17
Q

The Japanese city of Nara was designed on the model of;

A

Chang’an

18
Q

During the Heian Period, who ruled japan

A

The fujiwara Clan

19
Q

who were hired by local aristocrats to protect their land and interest

A

Samauri

20
Q

the samurai lived by a strict code of conduct known as :

A

Bushido

21
Q

Who created the first shogunate system in japan

A

Miramoto Yoritomo

22
Q

The bakufu is

A

Military government of Japan/ shogunate

23
Q

What helped the Japanese defeat the mongols in 1281

A

A massive typhoon

24
Q

great noble families in Japan were called

A

Daimyo

25
Q

who are the eta

A

hereditary slaves who perform degrading jobs

26
Q

The____ are spirits that resided in nature, such as trees and mounties

A

kami

27
Q

All of the following statements are true in regards to shinto except:

A

The Japanese originally worshipped the Kami in natural spellings

28
Q

Which buddhist sect was most popular with the aristocracy

A

zen

29
Q

The founder of the Yi dynasty was

A

Yi song-gye

30
Q

which of the Korean kingdoms became dominant

A

Silla

31
Q

what culture reading on the gulf of Tonkin was based on Indian culture

A

Champa

32
Q

What is the main difference between Vietnamese and Chinese society

A

Women’s rights

33
Q

Le Horn the founder of the Vietnamese le dynasty was referring to the ____ when he described them as “wild mountain-dwellers, (who) have unpleasant and violent customs

A

Vietnamese

34
Q

which Frankish leader converted to christianity around 500

A

Clovis

35
Q

In Germanic justice, what was wergeld

A

Fine paid by the wrongdoer

36
Q

The bishop of ___ claimed power as soul leader of the western christian church

A

Rome

37
Q

Monks did all of the following except

A

Amass great wealth

38
Q

The rules that regulated monastic life were formulated by

A

The rule of saint Benedict

39
Q

In 800, ___ was crowned as “emperor of the romans”

A

Charlemagne

40
Q

___ was grant of land given in exchange for military service

A

Fief

41
Q

All of the following were obligations of a vassal to his lord except:

A

to elect the chair of the House of Lords

42
Q

Which of the following was not an agricultural innovation of the high Middle Ages

A

stirrup

43
Q

by the end of the nineteenth century what was the largest and wealthiest of the European state

A

france

44
Q

Which of the following slavic peoples converted to the Greek Orthodox faith

A

Serbs

45
Q

Who was phew first crowned as the grand prince of moscow

A

Alexander Nevsky

46
Q

Burghers included:

A

Merchants and artisans

47
Q

Who sought to end lay investiture and thus came into conflict with Henry IV

A

Gregory VII

48
Q

Who embodied the spiritual ideal of cistercian monasticism in statements such as “arise, solider of christ, arise!”

A

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

49
Q

Hugh Capet was

A

The first king of france

50
Q

Thomas Aquinas tried to:

A

reconcile faith and freedom

51
Q

Who called for the first crusade

A

Urban II

52
Q

Yersinia Pestis:

A

The bacterium that caused the black death

53
Q

Who won the hundred years war

A

France

54
Q

Who wrote: “Indeed, we declare, announce and define that it is altogether necessary fro every human creature to be subject to the roman pontiff

A

Boniface VIII

55
Q

The father of Italian renaissance humanism was:

A

Petrarch

56
Q

Who said, “Men can do all things if they will,”

A

Alberti

57
Q

The artist who sculpted David was:

A

Michelangelo

58
Q

What was important about Prince Ivan

A

Created the Russian state by overthrowing the mongols

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