Unit 1 (1250 - 1450)

Question 1

How did the Song Dynasty maintain power?

Answer 1

1. Confucianism
2. Imperial Bureaucracy
3. Economy

Question 2

Neo-Confucianism

Answer 2

New Confucianism adapted from Tang Dynasty
- Rid Confucianism of Buddhism
- Hierarchy
- Filial Piety

Question 3

Filial Piety (Confucianism)

Answer 3

Child were to respect their elders

Question 4

Women in Song Dynasty

Answer 4

• No legal rights
• Social restrictions and education
• Footbinding

Question 5

Foot binding (Song Dynasty)

Answer 5

Status symbol that broke women’s feet and didn’t allow them to participate in society since they couldn’t walk

Question 6

Song Dynasty directly influenced…

Answer 6

Korea, Japan, Vietnam

Question 7

Buddhism in Song Dynasty

Answer 7

4 Noble Truths
- Led to new branches

Question 8

Theravada Buddhism

Answer 8

In Sri Lanka
- Only monks could practice
- Commoners were too busy to fully commit to the practice

Question 9

Mahayana Buddhism

Answer 9

In East Asia
- Broadened who could practice
- Bodhisattvas helped other achieve enlightenment

Question 10

Bodhisattvas

Answer 10

In Mahayana Buddism, people who had already reached enlightenment

Question 11

Commercialized Economy (Song Dynasty)

Answer 11

More goods for export than consumption (Silk and Porcelain)

Question 12

Champa Rice (Song Dynasty)

Answer 12

Increase rice production and fed more people… increasing population

Question 13

Transportation Innovation (Song Dynasty)

Answer 13

Expansion of the Grand Canal
- led to more water based trade

Question 14

Major Monotheistic religions

Answer 14

Islam, Judaism, Christianity

Question 15

Abbasid Caliphate

Answer 15

Ethnically Arab empire that fell and led to the rise of Turkic ruled Islamic empires

Question 16

Seljuk Empire

Answer 16

• Aided Abbasid military and then took over power

Question 17

Continuity in Turkic Empires

Answer 17

1. Military administered states
2. Enforced Sharia Law

Question 18

Sharia Law

Answer 18

Legal code of the Quran

Question 19

Cultural and Technology Innovation

Answer 19

• Trig and Maths advancements
• Greek philosophy was translated into Arab
• House of Wisdom

Question 20

House of Wisdom

Answer 20

Hotspot for scholars in Baghdad which contributed to the Golden Age of Islam

Question 21

Expansion of Muslim Rule

Answer 21

1. Military Expansion
2. Muslim Merchants
3. Muslim Missionaries

Question 22

South and Southeast Asian Belief Systems

Answer 22

• Buddhism (reduced)
• Hinduism
• Islam

Question 23

Dehli Sultanate

Answer 23

Powerful empire in India that forced Islam on many
- made Islam the religion of the elite

Question 24

Change in Hinduism

Answer 24

Bhakti Movement

Question 25

Bhakti Movement

Answer 25

Innovation on traditional hinduism
- movement from many gods to one
- challenged gender and social roles

Question 26

Resistance to Delhi Sultanate

Answer 26

• Rajput Kingdom
• Vijayanagara Empire

Question 27

Rajput Kingdom

Answer 27

Hindu empires from before the Delhi Sultanate were able to keep Islam at bay

Question 28

Vijayanagara Empire

Answer 28

Established via a failed Islamic empire by muslims who reverted to Hinduism to counter the sultanate

Question 29

Majapahit Kingdom

Answer 29

• Sea based
• Buddhist
• controlled sea trade (power)

Question 30

Khmer Empire

Answer 30

• Hindu converted to Buddhism
• land based
• Angkor Wat

Question 31

Angkor Wat

Answer 31

Build as a Hindu temple but Buddhist aspects were added over time
- Religious synthesis and continuity

Question 32

Mesoamerica

Answer 32

Aztec Civilization

Question 33

Aztec Administration

Answer 33

• System of tribute states
• Enslaved people play role in relation (human sacrifice)
• Decentralized

Question 34

Tribute States (Aztecs)

Answer 34

Required labor for all conquered people

Question 35

Andean Civilizations

Answer 35

Incas

Question 36

Inca Civilization

Answer 36

• Elaborate Bureaucracy
• rigid hierarchy
• Very centralized
• Mita System

Question 37

Mita System

Answer 37

Required all people under their rule to provide labor on state projects

Question 38

Mississippian Culture

Answer 38

Large towns dominated smaller settlements politically

Question 39

Swahili Civilization

Answer 39

• Politically independent
• Merchants > Commoners
• Influenced by muslim traders
• rapidly became Islamic

Question 40

Swahili Language

Answer 40

Mix of African Bantu and Arabic from Islamic influence in Swahili Civilization

Question 41

Great Zimbabwe

Answer 41

• lots of large architecture
• wealthy from gold exports
• NEVER converted to Islam

Question 42

Kingdom of Ethiopia

Answer 42

• CHRISTIANITY
• Hierarchy

Question 43

Christianity in Europe

Answer 43

• Eastern Orthodox
• Roman Catholicism

Question 44

Roman Catholicism

Answer 44

United independent European states

Question 45

European state power

Answer 45

Decentralized and fragmented

Question 46

Feudalism

Answer 46

Alligences between lords, monarchs and knights
- vassals get land from lords for military service

Question 47

Manorism

Answer 47

Peasants work for a lord on the land in exchange for protection from the lord

Question 48

Manor

Answer 48

land owned by a lord rented to a peasant for work

Question 49

Serfs

Answer 49

Peasants who worked on manors, bound to the land not the lord… form of slavery