WH- Test #2

Question 1

Ancient Japan’s Social Structure

Answer 1

Emperor, Shogun, Diamyos, Samurai, Peasants (respected because they worked the land), Artisans, Merchants

Question 2

Feudalism in Europe

Answer 2

Peasants worked for knights, knights worked for nobles, and nobles worked for kings, all in exchange for land and protection.

Question 3

The Crusade’s impact on Europe

Answer 3

Europe reconnected with the rest of the world.

Question 4

The Crusade’s impact on feudalism

Answer 4

It was one of the factors that eventually led to the end of feudalism

Question 5

The Bubonic Plague’s impact

Answer 5

It leads to money and banks because peasants demanded money for doing 2x the work (led to the end of feudalism)

Question 6

Papal Supremacy

Answer 6

God > Pope > King

Question 7

Science during the Dark Ages

Answer 7

Everything had to fit the Catholic Church’s teachings, so little science emerged.

Question 8

Magna Carta impact on feudalism

Answer 8

King John was forced to sign an agreement that nobles (and eventually all citizens) had natural rights and monarchs must obey all laws which was a factor in ending feudalism.

Question 9

The Great Schism

Answer 9

The religious split between Eastern and Western Christianity. The Eastern Orthodox Church has similar customs to Roman Catholic Church but doesn’t accept the Pope. The Eastern Orthodox Church accepts the Pope.

Question 10

The Hundred Year’s War impact on feudalism

Answer 10

Castles and armored knights began to disappear because of the long bow and cannon.

Question 11

Columbus’ impact on America

Answer 11

He caused many European settlers to colonize and settle in the Americas and also forced out many Indigenous peoples and created the Encomienda System.

Question 12

The Renaissance

Answer 12

Begins in Italy and spreads around Europe in the 1200s. Creativity and change in political, social, economic, and cultural norms in Europe. Greece and Rome knowledge, art, and society so they begin to read about their former culture to try and revive it again.

Question 13

Italian merchant’s renaissance impact

Answer 13

Wealthy merchants invest in the arts and it sparks the Renaissance.

Question 14

Humanism

Answer 14

people focused less on religion and more on science and math (greater good, not afterlife)

Question 15

Martin Luther

Answer 15

A Benedictine monk who wrote 95 Theses and exposed corruption in the Catholic Church.

Question 16

Indulgences

Answer 16

“Licenses” issued by the Catholic Church to sin, but not have it affect your time in purgatory.

Question 17

The Protestant Reformation

Answer 17

The Catholic Church was corrupt. The highest bidder became the pope, they were concerned more with material items, and they punished people with ex-communication and heresy. Martin Luther started the Reformation with his 95 Theses and people started to make their own decisions.

Question 18

Johann Gutenberg and the printing press

Answer 18

A game changer that allowed works of literature to be accessible to common people.

Question 19

Smallpox’s impact on the new world

Answer 19

Smallpox brought over by Europeans killed 90% of Indigenous Peoples and it helps Cortez conquer the Aztecs.

Question 20

Social order in feudal Japan

Answer 20

Artisans and merchants were lower than peasants because they were seen as less respectable because they didn’t work the land.

Question 21

Zheng He and his reason for canceling the voyages.

Answer 21

Zheng He was the commander of a naval expedition that traveled as far as Africa. He canceled because 1. There was no profit. 2. China was so far ahead there was no point. 3. They were scared other countries might influence China’s society (isolationism for 300 years)

Question 22

Foot Binding and other issues women faced in China

Answer 22

Women’s feet were bound and they ran the house and finances and couldn’t remarry.

Question 23

The Mongol Empire and its unintentional positive impacts on the world.

Answer 23

The Mongols were superior horseback riders. They traveled very fast. They helped stabilize a weak China, kept the Silk Road, and caused Pax Mongolica (a time of peace throughout Asia and the Middle East.)

Question 24

Marco Polo’s impact on relations between Europe and China

Answer 24

his book sparked interest in China’s riches by Europeans who read it

Question 25

The Encomienda System

Answer 25

consisted of conquistadors- Spanish settlers who conquered the indigenous people and became lords of the new world

Question 26

The Colombian Exchange

Answer 26

the exchange of goods, animals, plants, and culture between the old world and the new world

Question 27

The Triangle Trade

Answer 27

Three-legged trade network between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. 1st leg: Europe to Africa- guns, cloth, rum
2nd leg: Middle Passage- African slaves to Americas.
3rd leg: America to Europe- sugar, molasses, tobacoo, raw goods.

Question 28

Middle Passage

Answer 28

Slaves traveled on boats tightly packed in to travel to the Americas to work on plantations.

Question 29

Tamerlane’s Conquests

Answer 29

Commanded 35,000 armed horseback riders through Russia that kill 1/2 of pop. Russia loses contact with Western Europe which is slowly emerging from the Dark Ages. He takes over what is left of the Delhi Sultanate and becomes a Muslim, but destroys Islamic cities

Question 30

Kublai Khans conquests

Answer 30

Topples Song Dynasty

Question 31

Genghis Khan’s conquests

Answer 31

tolerant of other religious faiths, mercy was not shown to those who opposed him, long they fought the worse the response from the Mongols.

Question 32

british east india company takeover of Mughal Empire

Answer 32

They raised armies to protect profit and paid Sepoys (indian troops loyal to the company) to gain control of the Mughal Empire.