Unit 2.5-6 (Culture/Environmental Consequences of Connectivity)

Question 1

Zen Buddhism

Answer 1

Daoism and Buddhism combined

Question 2

Confucianism and Korea

Answer 2

Korea adopts a Confucianism-based gov. and entrance exam

Question 3

Neo-Confucianism

Answer 3

Blend of Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism and became popular in Japan and Vietnam

Question 4

Spread of Religions in SE Asia

Answer 4

Srivijaya Kingdom adopts Hinduism, Majapahit adopts Buddhism, Khmer adopts both and is the most successful SE kingdom

Question 5

Effects of Islam Spreading Across Afro-Eurasia

Answer 5

Swahili language (Bantu and Arabic) still spoken today, Timbuktu becomes center of Islamic learning, low caste Hindu’s convert to Islam for equality, architecture represents blend of Hindu towers and Muslim domes.

Question 6

Cultural Connectivity Impact on Literature and Art

Answer 6

Buddhist writers influence Chinese lit. by writing in common language and Arab scholars translate and preserve Greek lit.

Question 7

Cultural Connectivity Impact on Science and Tech.

Answer 7

Lateen sails, magnetic compasses, and astrolabes spread to China, India, and ME; papermaking techniques move from China to Europe

Question 8

Cultural Connectivity Impact on Cities

Answer 8

Kashgar, Timbuktu, Samarkand, and Hangzhou rise because they are next to trade routes but Kashgar and Constantinople fall due to attacks from outside forces

Question 9

Travelers who wrote about their experiences

Answer 9

Marco Polo (Italian merchant who traveled to Mongol-controlled China and wrote of their wealth/riches, causing Europeans to be interested in East Asian goods), Ibn Battuta (Muslim Scholar who traveled throughout North Afr. and ME), and Margery Kempe (European women who traveled to Jerusalem, Rome, Germany, and Spain, providing a first-hand account of life for a medieval, mid. class woman)

Question 10

Agricultural Effects of Networks of Exchange

Answer 10

Champa rice causes population explosion, bananas introduced to Sub-Saharan Afr. by Indonesians, Arabs spread cotton, sugar, and citrus fruit with sugar promoting slave trade, deforestation, and spread of diseases (Black Death)

Question 10

Agricultural Effects of Networks of Exchange

Answer 10

Champa rice causes population explosion, bananas introduced to Sub-Saharan Afr. by Indonesians, Arabs spread cotton, sugar, and citrus fruit with sugar promoting slave trade, deforestation, and spread of diseases (Black Death)