Unit Two Test

Question 1

Hijra

Answer 1

Fleeing from Mecca to medina of Muhammad and followers due to persecution

Question 2

Decline of Umayyad Caliphate

Answer 2

• wealthy life of elites

- Arab soldiers tired of being posted on frontier

Question 3

Decline of Abbasid Caliphate

Answer 3

• Mongol invaders
• salve rebellion from mamluks
• Fatimids break away
• empire to vast (info took too long to travel)

Question 4

Mamluks

Answer 4

• Turkish slaves
• developed as standing army in Islamic empires
• effective but expensive
• tried to unseat caliphs

Question 5

Islamic Spain

Answer 5

• developed distinctive Islamic culture

- blended Roman, Germanic, and Jewish traditions with Arabs and Berbers

Question 6

Ulama

Answer 6

Religious leaders

Question 7

Sharia

Answer 7

Law of Islam, foundation of Islamic civilization

Question 8

Muslim women’s status

Answer 8

• more rights than Christian and Jewish

- could go on pilgrimage

Question 9

Hagia Sophia

Answer 9

• built by Justinian

- taken over by Arab invaders, turned into mosque

Question 10

The Carolingian empire

Answer 10

• military effectiveness
• Charlemagne
• treaty of verdun, split into 3 parts

Question 11

Papacy

Answer 11

• the office of the pope
• nepotism (preferring ones close kin)
• simony (selling ecclesiastical appointments)

Question 12

Canon laws

Answer 12

Law of church

-pope Gregory VII

Question 13

Investiture controversy

Answer 13

Popes vs kings and emperors

Question 14

Monasticism

Answer 14

• living in religious community outside of secular society

- nuns and monks

Question 15

Varangians

Answer 15

-Swedish Vikings

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Question 16

Vladimir I

Answer 16

• Kiev
• married Byzantine
• rejected Islam because of ban of alcohol
• rejected Judaism because a true God wouldn’t let Jewish kingdom be destroyed
• orthodox Christianity

Question 17

Venice

Answer 17

-dominant sea power in the Adriatic

Question 18

Battle of manzikert

Answer 18

Seljuk army defeated Byzantine emperor

Question 19

Pope urban II

Answer 19

-called for crusade

Question 20

Eleanor of Acquitane

Answer 20

-maintained own court

Question 21

Procopius

Answer 21

-wrote harsh history of Justinian’s reign

Question 22

Anna Commena

Answer 22

-first European woman to be considered a historian

Question 23

Li yuan

Answer 23

First emperor of tang

• promoted trade
• unified China

Question 24

Mahayana Buddhism

Answer 24

• Tang Dynasty

- invigorated travel, language learning, cultural exchange

Question 25

Tributary system

Answer 25

-Korea and Vietnam sent embassies to capital to pay tribute

Question 26

Empress Wu Zhao

Answer 26

- Buddhism attacked for encouraging women in politics | - shows patriarchal views

Question 27

Lushan Rebellion

Answer 27

- Tang Dynasty | - rebellion lasted 8 years

Question 28

Zhu Xi

Answer 28

- most important early neo-Confucian thinker | - moral and social responsibility

Question 29

Status of women in Song Dynasty

Answer 29

- foot binding - social restriction - girls educated enough to read simplified versions of Confucian philosophy

Question 30

Teotihucacan

Answer 30

- worshipped many gods - human sacrifice - chinampas - absence of walls=peace?

Question 31

Maya

Answer 31

- impressive religious temples and created rituals - calendars - concept of zero - women had important political and religious roles

Question 32

Aztecs

Answer 32

- twin capitals tenochtitlan and tlatoani - monarcical system - women held in high esteem

Question 33

Korea

Answer 33

- shamanism (belief in ability to contact ancestors and invisible spirit world) - horse breeding - Confucianism and Buddhism - tributary state

Question 34

Japan

Answer 34

- not plagued t constant warfare | - tale of genji written by murasaki Shikibu says women should have general knowledge of several subjects

Question 35

Vietnam

Answer 35

- champa rice - trung sisters led local farmers in resistance against Han empire - tributary state

Question 36

Srivijaya

Answer 36

-dominated new trade route

Question 37

Inca

Answer 37

- capital city Cuzco - laid in shape of a puma - used quipus - more centralized

Question 38

Ka'ba

Answer 38

A cubical shrines with idols inside, at pilgrimage center