APWH Strayer Ch 7-11

Why were most goods exchanged along the Silk Road luxury goods destined for the wealthy elite?

• There was a black market for goods that were not luxury goods
• States were eager to collect money from import taxes and only allowed luxury goods to be imported
• Wealthy merchants only wanted to trade goods that they could use
• Goods traveled long distances, therefore they had a high cost 

Ghana, Mali, and Songhai all traded which TWO items?

• Gold and fish
• Gold and salt
• Gold and timber
• Gold and bronze

What may be the culprit for bringing the plague to Europe?

• fleas/bears
• fleas/black rats
• ticks/black rats
• ticks/brown bears

_______, Islamic empires in the middle east, ______, ______, and South East Asia were all part of Indian Ocean trade.

• Swahili coast cities, India, China
• Africa, India, Europe
• Europe, Swahili Coast Cities, China
• Swahili coast cities, India, Europe

A powerful state in the African interior that apparently emerged from the growing trade in gold to the East African coast; flourished between 1250 and 1350 C.E.

• Ghana, Mali, & Songhay
• Great Zimbabwe

A term used to describe the routes of the trans-Sahara trade in Africa.

• sand roads
• silk roads

The largest religious structure in the premodern world, construction began on this temple located in modern Cambodia in the early 1100s C.E. It was built to express a Hindu understanding of the cosmos, centered on a mythical Mt Meru, the home of the gods in Hindu tradition.

• Angkor Wat
• Borobudur

Which of the following contributed to the doubling of the Chinese population during the Tang and Song dynasties?

• The conquest of Japan
• The adoption of a fast-ripening strain of rice from Vietnam
• The end of warfare with pastoral peoples
• The massive importation of food crops from Central Asia

The emergence of which practice during the Song dynasty suggests that Chinese women’s lives were more restricted than they had been in the Tang dynasty?

• Remarriage of widows
• Tribute system
• Foot binding
• Worship of the Queen Mother of the West

The ______ dynasty reunited China under one emperor?

• Wu
• Sui
• Song
• Tang