Unit 1 - The Global Tapestry

Question 1

What dynasty ruled China from 1200-1450?

Answer 1

The Song Dyanasty

Question 2

How did the Song Dynasty rule (3 answers)?

Answer 2

Bureaucracy
Meritocracy
Civil Service Exam

Question 3

Ag. Innovations in China during the time period 1200-1450 (5 answers)

Answer 3

Grand Canal
Champa Rice
Manure
Irrigation Systems
Heavy Plows

Question 4

More food = ?

Answer 4

More food = More people

Question 5

Tech. innovations in China during 1200-1450 (5 answers)

Answer 5

Gunpowder/Guns
Steel
Compass
Paper
Woodblock Printing

Question 6

What 3 goods did the Song Dynasty most commonly trade?

Answer 6

Porcelain
Textiles
Tea

Question 7

What did the Song Dyanasty use their taxes on?

Answer 7

To build routes
To control trade

Question 8

What did woodblock printing increase/cause?

Answer 8

The increased use of paper for literature.

Question 9

How/Why did tech., literature, and visual arts thrive in the Song Dynasty in 1200-1450?

Answer 9

Increased contact with foreigners

Question 10

What resource was a major resource used in the Song Dyanasty?

Answer 10

Coal

Question 11

Foot binding

Answer 11

Chinese practice of tightly wrapping girls’ feet to keep them small (this was a symbol of wealth); an emphasis on small size and delicacy as central views of female beauty

Question 12

Imperial Bureaucracy

Answer 12

A Chinese govern system with strong imperial court and a Civil Service Exam based on Confucian principals.

Question 13

Meritocracy

Answer 13

A political system in which you move up in position based on merit and talent

Question 14

Champa Rice

Answer 14

A quick-maturing, drought resistant rice
Doubled food intake
Was sent to China as a tribute gift from the Champa state during the Song Dynasty

Question 15

Grand Canal

Answer 15

A waterway system connecting north-eastern China with central-eastern China

Question 16

Proto-Industrialization

Answer 16

A set of economic changes in which people in rural areas made more goods than they could sell.
cont. - Established the basis of a merchant economy in China for cents.

Question 17

Tributary System

Answer 17

Countries that wanted to trade with China had to pay goods or money to the Chinese emperor for the privillage of trading with China.

Question 18

Scholar Gentry

Answer 18

Members of China’s landowning families, reflecting their wealth from the land and the privilege that they derived as govern. officials

Question 19

Filial Piety

Answer 19

(In Confucian thought) one of the virtues to be cultivated; a love and respect for one’s parents and ancestors

Question 20

Neo-Confucianism

Answer 20

The revival of Confucian thinking while adding in Buddhist and Daoist elements during the Song Dynasty

Question 21

Pologony

Answer 21

A form of marriage where a man has more than one wife at a time.

Question 22

Dar al-Islam

Answer 22

“The House of Isam;” a group of empires and communities all falling under the Islamic religion; primarily located in the Middle East

Question 23

What two empires were dominant in the Americas?

Answer 23

The Incas and Aztecs

Question 24

What innovations did Dar al-Islam introduce/encourage?

Answer 24

Algebra (from Dar al-Islam) and medicine/philosophy (from the Greeks/Romans)

Question 25

Feudal System

Answer 25

A social/political structure present in Europe from the 9th-15th century; a lord controlled a plot of land and people under him worked that land in return for a place to live, protection, ect.

The Manorial System

Question 26

Which group of people dominated Dar al-Islam (from 1200-1450)?

Answer 26

The Turks (used to be Arabs/Persians)

Question 27

How did Islam spread in 1200-1450?

Answer 27

Merchants, missionaries, and surfis

Question 28

Siege of Baghdad

Answer 28

A siege led by the Mongol army into Baghdad (the capital of the Abbasid Caliphate)

Question 29

A cause of the Siege of Baghdad:

Answer 29

The rapid expasion of the Mongol empire across the network of exchange

Question 30

An effect of the Siege of Baghdad:

Answer 30

The end of the Abbasid Caliphate

Question 31

What three belif systems dominated South/Southeast Asia in 1200-1450?

Answer 31

Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam

Question 32

Name a Hindu state in 1200-1450

Answer 32

Vijayanagara Empire; Rajput Kingdoms; Srivijaya Empire; Khmer Empire; Majaphit Empire

Question 33

Name a Buddhist state in 1200-1450

Answer 33

Sukhothai Empire; Sinhala Dynasties; Srivijaya Empire; Khmer Empire

Question 34

_____ Sultante was the most influential sultanate in South Asia in 1200-1450.

Answer 34

Delhi

Question 35

Name one religious and one political characteristic about Azteca society

Answer 35

Religious - Polygamy, Human Sacrafice, Cosmology, Ceremonial Warefare

Political - Tribute, City States

Question 36

Inca Mit’a System

Answer 36

A form of mandatory public service in the Inca Empire - people contributed their labor towarads various community projects for a set period of time

Question 37

What three empires dominated West Africa in 1200-1450?

Answer 37

Ghana Empire, Mali Empire, and Songhai Empire

Question 38

What’s a religious cause of Mansa Musa’s journey to Mecca?

Answer 38

Mansa Musa had converted to Islam faith

Question 39

What was an economic effect of Mansa Musa’s journey to Mecca

Answer 39

Mansa Musa spent so much money on his journey to Mecca, he erased Cario’s economy.