TEST 4 Flashcards
Which of the following is not true concerning Chinese society after the fall of the Han dynasty.
Buddhism waned In popularity
How did Buddhism come to china
The Silk Road
Who reunited china in 581
Yang Jian
The grand canal was constructed during ____ dynasty
sui
During the Tang dynasty China excised either direct or indirect influence over all the following areas except
India
The capital of the tang empire, and possibly the greatest city in the world at that time was:
Chang’an
approximately, what was the population of china during the song dynasty
40 million
which of the following statements about the Song dynasty is not true
military and political problems contributed to economics chaos
which of the following was not one of the ministries in the Chinese department of state affairs
farming
what was the civil service exam based upon during the Song dynasty
Confucian Texts
What was the lowest official of the Chinese government during the Tang and Song period
Magistrate
In the 11th century the reformist ___ attempted to limit the size of landholdings through land taxes
Wang Anshi
The tang introduced the ___ system in return for an annual tax payment and three weeks of conscript labor from the peasant
“Equal field”
Which of the following was introduced during the Tang period?
Gunpowder, paper currency, steel and cotton
what was “Genghis Khan” mean
Universal Ruler
which of the following statements about the economy and society during the Tang and Song dynasties is not true?
Society remained exclusively rural
who was Wu Zhao
Empress of china
During the Tang and Song dynasties, this group became the most influential
landed gentry
The old Chinese saying “Marry a chicken, follow the chicken; marry a dog, follow the dog.” represented
the inability of Chinese women to get a divorce
Who founded the ming dynasty
Zhu Yuanzhang
The Mongols ruled china as the ___ dynasty
Yuan
___ buddhism called for mind training and a strict regimen as a means of seeing enlightenment
Chan
who was the leading proponent of Neo-confucianism?
Zhu Xi
What is the first printed book?
A buddhist text
The ___ were the earliest known neolithic inhabitants of Japan and were named for the cord pattern of their pottery
Jomon
___ describes heroic bandits who take money from the rich and gave it to the poor
tale of the marshes
the Japanese emperors were beloved to be descended from the sun goddess:
Amaterasu
Which of the following is the true of the Yayoi
Mixture of Jomon and new arrivals
Which Chinese dynasty was first seen as a threat by the Japanese
Tang
which of the following is not one of the main Japanese home islands
Osaka
The line “When an imperial command is given, obey it with reverence,” comes from the:
17- article constitution
Yayoi clans were called
Uji
Prince Shotoku sent emissaries from Japan to ____ in order to learn about centralized political institutions
China
who introduced the seventeen-article constitution to Japan
Shook Taishi
The Japanese city of Nara was designed on the model of;
Chang’an
During the Heian Period, who ruled japan
The fujiwara Clan
who were hired by local aristocrats to protect their land and interest
Samauri
the samurai lived by a strict code of conduct known as :
Bushido
Who created the first shogunate system in japan
Miramoto Yoritomo
The bakufu is
Military government of Japan/ shogunate
What helped the Japanese defeat the mongols in 1281
A massive typhoon
great noble families in Japan were called
Daimyo
who are the eta
hereditary slaves who perform degrading jobs
The____ are spirits that resided in nature, such as trees and mounties
kami
All of the following statements are true in regards to shinto except:
The Japanese originally worshipped the Kami in natural spellings
Which buddhist sect was most popular with the aristocracy
zen
The founder of the Yi dynasty was
Yi song-gye
which of the Korean kingdoms became dominant
Silla
what culture reading on the gulf of Tonkin was based on Indian culture
Champa
What is the main difference between Vietnamese and Chinese society
Women’s rights
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
Vietnamese
which Frankish leader converted to christianity around 500
Clovis
In Germanic justice, what was wergeld
Fine paid by the wrongdoer
The bishop of ___ claimed power as soul leader of the western christian church
Rome
Monks did all of the following except
Amass great wealth
The rules that regulated monastic life were formulated by
The rule of saint Benedict
In 800, ___ was crowned as “emperor of the romans”
Charlemagne
___ was grant of land given in exchange for military service
Fief
All of the following were obligations of a vassal to his lord except:
to elect the chair of the House of Lords
Which of the following was not an agricultural innovation of the high Middle Ages
stirrup
by the end of the nineteenth century what was the largest and wealthiest of the European state
france
Which of the following slavic peoples converted to the Greek Orthodox faith
Serbs
Who was phew first crowned as the grand prince of moscow
Alexander Nevsky
Burghers included:
Merchants and artisans
Who sought to end lay investiture and thus came into conflict with Henry IV
Gregory VII
Who embodied the spiritual ideal of cistercian monasticism in statements such as “arise, solider of christ, arise!”
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Hugh Capet was
The first king of france
Thomas Aquinas tried to:
reconcile faith and freedom
Who called for the first crusade
Urban II
Yersinia Pestis:
The bacterium that caused the black death
Who won the hundred years war
France
Who wrote: “Indeed, we declare, announce and define that it is altogether necessary fro every human creature to be subject to the roman pontiff
Boniface VIII
The father of Italian renaissance humanism was:
Petrarch
Who said, “Men can do all things if they will,”
Alberti
The artist who sculpted David was:
Michelangelo
What was important about Prince Ivan
Created the Russian state by overthrowing the mongols
