AP 2.5 Cultural Connectivity 2024

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The relative stability of the Pax Mongolica that diffused technology, religion, art and literature lasted from ____

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the 13th to 14th centuries

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Religious diffusion causes all of the following changes in society except ___

• unify people

• influence art and literature

• provide justification of leadership

• immediate replacement of existing beliefs

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immediate replacement of existing beliefs

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What is Syncretism

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Merging or blending of different beliefs, practices, or cultural traditions into a new and unified whole.

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Buddhism first spread into China through what means?

the Silk Road trade, the Great Wall, the Tea trade, Confucianism

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the Silk Road trade

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Buddhism first became popular in China with what group?

• ordinary people who practiced Daoism

• the scholar gentry who were dissatisfied with Confucianism

• Confucianists looking for new philosophies

• Silk merchants with ties to the Middle East

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ordinary people who practiced Daoism

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Why did Buddhist writers become popular in China?

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They wrote in the vernacular making their appeal widespread.

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Neo-Confucianism became influential in East Asia by blending what beliefs?

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Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism

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The Srivijaya Empire on the island of Sumatra was a _____ kingdom.

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Hindu

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The Majapahit kingdom on the island of Java was a _____ kingdom

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Buddhist

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The Angkor kingdom in present day Cambodia was a _____ kingdom

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Hindu-Buddhist