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WorksheetsWHAP: Modern Exam 1 Study Set
Total questions: 67
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This political entity is typical for people from the Eurasian Steppe and it can be equivalent to tribal chiefdom, principality, kingdom or empire.
Khanates
Caliph
Bushido
Sultanate
Islamic sacred book, believed to be the word of God as dictated to Muhammad by the archangel Gabriel and written down in Arabic.
Qu'ran
Holy Bible
Confucianism
Goryeo
A Korean dynasty established in 918 by King Taejo. This kingdom later gave name to the modern exonym for Korea.
Goryeo
Shogunate
Sufism
Pax Mongolica
Describes the stabilizing effects of the conquests of the Mongol Empire on the social, cultural and economic life of the inhabitants of the vast Mongol Empire
Pax Mongolica
Golden Age of Mongol Empire
Khanates
Sultanate
a Japanese religion dating from the early 8th century and incorporating the worship of ancestors and nature spirits and a belief in sacred power ( kami ) in both animate and inanimate things.
Shinto
Islam
Christianity
Shogunate
Requires travel across the Sahara to reach sub-Saharan Africa from the North African coast, Europe, to the Levant.
Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
Indian Ocean Trade Routes
Silk Road Trade Routes
Eurasian Trade Routes
Founder of the Mali Empire.
Sundiata
Mohammad
Genghis Khan
Mansa Musa
Muslim Ruler
Caliph
Shogunate
A dynasty
Emperor
A Movement in religious philosophy originated in China around AD 1000 in response to the ideas of Taoism and Buddhism.
Neo-Confucianism
Buddhism
Islam
Christianity
Hereditary military dictator, of Japan from 1192 to 1867
Shogunate
Shinto
Caliph
Emperor
I'm the largest religion monument in the world. I began as an Hindu Temple but later became a Buddhist Temple. What's my name?
Angkor Wat
The Vatican
Alhambra
Sacred Temple
I'm the founder of the Mongol Empire
Genghis Khan
St. Benedict
Pachakuti
Zhenghe
I'm the father of West Europe
Charlemagne
Xuanzang
Ibn Battuta
Kublai Khan
The term vassal means
a landless peasant.
the center of a fiefdom.
a container for fluids.
a status of mutual obligation between lord and underling.
The spread of Buddhism in China c. 800 was sponsored by
Tibetan monks who traveled widely throughout East Asia.
Tang rulers who brought in missionaries from India.
the Han emperor Wei Ping.
Uighur tribesmen from the West.
The classical era of Japan took place during the _________ period.
Tokugawa
Minamoto
Meiji
Heian
What do Vietnam, Japan, and Korea have in common?
They all have languages that stem from the same linguistic family.
China left a lasting cultural and religious imprint on them.
All were once colonies of the Mongols.
All were conquered by the Sung dynasty.
What commonalities can be seen between European and Japanese feudalism?
Centralized kingdoms dominated the political scene.
Literature flourished during long periods of peace.
Land formed the basis for power, with lords controlling fiefdoms.
Weak emperors were controlled by religious leaders.
Who had the largest land empire in the world?
Mongols
Rome
Greece
China
What infrastructure project was completed to ease the movement of rice from Southern China to the populated North?
The Rice Railroad
The Grand Canal
The Great Wall of China
The Chinese Expressway
What was traded in the African kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?
pepper and gold
salt and silver
pepper and silver
salt and gold
Who gave away so much gold on his hajj that it depleted the value of gold?
Ibn Battuta
Mansa Musa
Coach Greene
The King of Ghana
What is the group of Muslims who believe the caliph (leader of Islamic faith) should be politically elected, and does not need to be from the bloodline of Muhammad?
Sunni
Shia
What was the name of the various attacks by Christian Europeans on Muslims in order to gain back the holy land?
Ramadan
Battle of Tours
The Crusades
Battle of Thermopylae
What is the name of the Indian warriors who united northern India and defended it against the Muslim Mughals?
The Griots
The Rajputs
The Songhai
The Sultanates
Who engaged in human sacrifice to appease their gods?
Mayan
Inca
Aztecs
Olmec
African storyteller
bazaar
griot
savannah
deviner
Which of the following was an effect of the Mongol conquests?
The spread of Hellenism
The rise of the Song Dynasty
The spread of the Black Plague
Umayyad to Abbasid dynasty
Which of the following did NOT facilitate trade?
Serfdom
Compass
Diasporic communities
Caravels
Which of the following is an example of a syncretic religion?
Catholicism
Shia Islam
Buddhism
Sikhism
The largest city of pre-Columbian America, with a population between 100,000 and 200,00; seemingly built according to a plan in the Valley of Mexico, it flourished between 300 to 600 CE during which time it governed or influenced much of the surrounding region. Its name is an Aztec term meaning "city of the gods."
Teotihuacan
Piye
Pohnpei
Bantu
Wari and Tiwanaku
Type of Arab government in which the ruler could adjust political and religious law.
Caliphate
Sultanate
Justinian
Caesaropapism
Mamlukanate
Sect of Muslims who believe that the leadership of the ummah should be given to Mohammed's brother-in-law.
Sunni Muslims
Shia Muslims
Dhimmis Muslims
Jizya Muslims
Mamluk Muslims
What is the only recognized language for the Islamic holy book?
English
Yiddish
Arabic
Etruscan
Swahili
In the Japanese Feudalism system below the military leaders were which group?
Shoguns
Daimyos
Samurai
Kamis
Taika
Name given to reforms that occurred in Japan after monks and scholars were returned from China where they had copied Chinese style of government for use in Japan?
Taika Reform
Kyoto Reform
Daimyo Reform
Shogunate Reform
Shinto Reform
System in which peasants and others were subject to the legal and economic power of the leader of their estate they lived on.
Manorialism
Caliphate
Tokugawa Shogunate
Confucianism
Carolingism
Which of the definitions below best describes a GUILD?
People who control labor, production, and prices.
Government officials that create laws about commerce.
The first example of a Middle Class element of society that arose from economic development.
The private armies created to enforce trade and tariff agreements between countries.
The middle-mast of a ship that increased the speed of merchant vessels thus increasing the amount of trade between countries.
What was unique about Islam in West Africa?
The rules of Islam were not enforced by the state (country)
The rules of Islam were enforced by the state (country).
The rules of Islam were only required from Bantu speaking countries
The rules of Islam were a mixture of Islamic laws and Christian practices.
The rules of Islam only applied to Muslims living in West Africa who had been born in the Abbasid Caliphate.
Which West African Empire was created first?
Ghana
Mali
Liberia
Timbuktu
Dar-a-Islam
What was the name of the African ruler who made the Hajj to Mecca?
Mansa Musa
Muhammad
A'ishah al-Ba'uniyyah
Dar-al-Islam
Zheng He
Select TWO (2) technologies that spread from China, through Asia, and into Europe.
Printing
Gun Powder
Blast Furnance
Chemical Weapons
Catapults
This was the first Muslim empire in India from 1206-1526 that dealt with constant Hindu-Muslim conflicts.
Delhi Sultanate
Kyoto Sultanate
Yuan Dynasty
Ottoman Empire
Xiongnu Confederacy
What is the correct order starting with highest to lowest class in Japanese Feudalism.
Shogun, Daimyo, Samurai, Peasants, Merchants
Shogun, Daimyo, Samurai, Merchants, Peasants
Daimyo, Shogun, Samurai, Peasants, Merchants
Daimyo, Samurai, Shogun, Peasants, Merchants
Merchants, Peasants, Daimyo, Shogun
What was the new type of rice brought over from Vietnam into China during the Post-Classical Era?
Champa
Brown
Arbita
Long Strain
Xiongnu
What was the name for the revitalized form of Confucianism in Song China?
Neoconfucianism
Neobuddhism
Shinto Confucianism
Lao Zu
Taika Confucianism
What was the oppressive practice on Chinese women begun during the Song Dynasty?
Spousal Rape
Foot Binding
Female Circumcision
Body Scarification
One Child Policy
Which of the following statements concerning the status of women in the Tang-Song era is most accurate?
Tang-Song law recognized no women's rights.
The condition of women in general improved during the Tang-Song era.
The assertion of male dominance within the family was especially pronounced in the thinking of the neo-Confucian philosophers.
Women had more rights than ever before due to the influence of the Legalists.
Which of the following statements concerning the Korean bureaucracy under the influence of China is most accurate?
With the establishment of the Confucian examination system, advancement within the civil service was determined almost exclusively by test scores.
Although Korea emulated the Chinese bureaucratic structure, the satellite never created a Confucian examination system as a means of qualification.
Korea established a Confucian examination system on the Chinese model, but admission to the bureaucracy was determined almost exclusively by birth.
Korean absolutism depended more on a warrior elite than administrative sophistication, so a formal bureaucracy was never established.
Duty of family members to subordinate their needs to the head of the family or ruler.
Nuclear Family
Grand Canal
Aritsans
Filial Piety
African societies organized around kinship or other forms of obligation and lacking the concentration of political power and authority were referred to as
stateless societies.
pastoral groupings.
Bantu conical clans.
Islamic tribes.
What legal concept is being discussed in the passage?
Which European institution during the Middle Ages in best described by this statement?
During the Renaissance, interest in humanism grew. What is humanism?
Focus on God rather than individuals
Focus on individuals rather than God
Which of the following statements concerning the agricultural laborers of the medieval West is NOT true?
They received protection and the administration of justice from their landlords.
They were obligated to turn over part of their goods to remain on the land.
They could be bought and sold by their landlords.
They had heavy obligations to their lords.
How did the Aztec adapt to their environment and make it conducive for agriculture?
They created chinampas, or floating islands, to bring fertile farmland to the lake that they lived on.
They used the slash-and-burn method of farming.
They Aztec used terrace farming to grow crops on mountainsides.
None of these.
Which descriptions matches the Aztec Empire.
An empire that was built around fear and warfare. They used human sacrifice regularly to please their gods. Warriors are the most respected in society.
An empire built in the Andes Mountains where roads and bridges connected the empire. Politics played a major role in expanding the empire.
Mostly a mysterious empire. All we know is that the large stone heads could represent kings or deities.
None of these.
The practice of _________ allowed the Inca to greatly increase the amount of arable land.
irrigating
terracing
slashing and burning
fertilizing
Social standing is determined by the mother’s side.
animism
Huaca
Matrilineal
Waru waru
