HIS EXAM

After many full-scale assaults and episodes of mob violence against Jewish communities, England expelled Jewish people in _________

1290

The Temple of Literature in _________ was the first national academy for Confucian training in Vietnam, founded in 1076.

Hanoi

Coffeehouses allowed the literate urban public to meet, read __________, and exchange ideas.

daily newspapers

The Kojiki and Nihongi were:

chinese style imperial historys

northern most of japans 4 main islands

hokkaido

Joan of Arc Victoreh=y

1429

The majority of the Jewish population in Granada was forced to emigrate by __________.

1492

Martin Luther protested the sale of indulgences in ________ with 95 theses addressed to his archbishop.

1517

Spain refused to recognize the "United Provinces of the ____________ Republic" until 1648.

1648

To its neighbors, the Zagwe kingdom was 'Ethiopia' or '_________', names rooted in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles.

Abyssinia

the Korean language may be distantly related to the __________ family of languages, which include Turkish, Mongolian, and Manchu. Indo-European Semitic Amharic

Atlaic

The model for monastic life was established by St. _________ (ca. 480-543), whose Holy Rule governed the rhythms and rituals of a monk's day.

Benedict

________ Christianity, centered in Egypt, emphasizes the sole divine nature of Jesus.

Coptic

When one of local chiefs centralized rule in 1137, the new kingdom of ________ unified the highlands and battled the Muslims in the lowlands on the Red Sea coast in the name of a Christian Crusade.

Ethiopia

The chongjon system of Silla, begun in 722, mandated a(n):

Government sponspored distrubtion of land

An expedition sent out the Portuguese king ___________ the Navigator captured the city of Ceuta on the North African coast in 1415.

Henry

As a proponent of Copernican heliocentrism, Galileo seemed to contradict the passage in the Hebrew Bible's Book of ___________, in which God stops the sun in the sky for a day.

Joshua

By the late 13th and early 14th centuries, native shipwrights and their teachers from Genoa teamed up in the port of _____________ to develop new ships suited to the stormy Atlantic.

Lisbon

In 1231, ________ forces laid siege to Kaesong, and perhaps 250,000 Koreans were deported as slave laborers after the city had fallen.

Mongol

Swahili cities were characterized by a central open square containing a __________, the main city well, and the tombs of saints.

Mosque

After staying three months on the first Bahaman island he found, Christopher Columbus returned to Iberia with ________ and a small quantity of gold

Seven captured Caribbean islanders

The chief military official of Japan was called a _____________, and the office would become hereditary in the Tokugawa period (1603-1867).

Shogun

The 'investiture controversy' erupted between Pope Gregory VII and Emperor Henry IV over the issue of:

The appointment of clergy members.

Under Süleyman "the Magnificent" most of the Janissaries were stationed in barracks in and near the _____________.

Topkapi Palace

Feudalism consisted of powerful landed aristocrats (lords) who assembled small private armies consisting of dependents (___________) in order to meet military emergencies.

Vassals

In spite of an excommunication pronounced by Pope Innocent III, crusaders from _______ plundered Constantinople in 1204.

Venic

The Amnokkang, better known as the _________ River, and Kangnam Mountains form the present dividing line between the Korean peninsula and Manchuria.

Yalu

The Hanseatic League was a trade network of allied ports along the North and ______ Sea coasts, founded in 1256.

baltic

A mathematician and assistant of Galileo, Evangelista Torricelli experimented with mercury-filled tubes to lay the groundwork for the first ___________.

barometer

At the head of a cavalry force borrowed from a chiefdom in the Sahel, Sundiata defeated ancient Ghana in 1235 and founded the empire of Mali, with its capital on an upper Niger tributary in modern __________.

guinea

guilds

merchants and artisans

In the Malian epic told about his life, Sundiata prevails over his enemies thanks to a discovery made by his ___________.

sister

The real breakthrough in the Christian 'reconquest' of Spain occurred in 1085 when ______ was liberated from Muslim control, resulting in almost half of the country returning to Christians.

toledo

Serving as a model for subsequent kingdoms in the savanna of central Africa, the Luba kingdom survived until the arrival of __________ colonialism at the end of the nineteenth century.

belgian

disk made of finely worked steatite was found in a third-century CE ___________ in central Japan, and similar objects have been found in China.

burial mound

Acquiring wealth with the help of money and thereby perhaps gaining a glimpse of one's fate became one of the hallmarks of ____________.

calvinism

_________ inherited Habsburg territories throughout Europe and the Inca and Aztec Empires in the Americas when he became Emperor in 1516.

charles v

In his preface, Cervantes claimed he had written Don Quixote of La Mancha to "ridicule the absurdity" of notions of ___________.

chivarly

Comprised of merchants and artisans who lived in 'burghs' (or _________) the bourgeoisie made their livings from producing and selling goods for commercial exchange.

cities

"Renaissance" thinkers and artists considered their period a time of "rebirth" (the literal meaning of the word in the _______ language).

french

The Tale of _________, credited to Murasaki Shikibu, is often considered the world's first novel.

genji

Despite his appearance in the city in 1536, it was well into the 1550s before John Calvin's form of Protestantism prevailed in __________.

genva

In many cases, the shoen, or clan estates, were ____________ because of their military contributions.

given tax exempt status

At its height between 1250 and 1505, the kingdom of __________ represents the culmination of the southern African kingdoms.

great zimbabwe

Humanism was an intellectual movement focused on human culture, in such fields as philosophy, philology, and literature, and based on the corpus of ___________ texts.

greek and roman

y the fall of the _________ dynasty in 220 CE, we have the earliest remnant examples of wood-block printing.

han

In 1498, the king of Portugal sent Vasco da Gama on a voyage to

india

The works of a handful of literate Japanese women such as Murasaki Shikibu were often written in:

kana script

Copernicus began his studies at the University of __________, the only eastern European school to offer courses in astronomy.

krakow

Crusade of the Three Kings

led by fredrick of germany, philip ii of france, richard of englad.

After being kidnapped by Christian pirates, Al-Hasan Ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan was baptized under the name of Pope _________.

leo x

The portolan (nautical chart) drawn by Pedro Reinel is the earliest known map to include _____________.

lines of latitude

Despite the appearance of his beaming benevolence at Versailles, the "absolutist" rule of ____________ was a complex mixture of centralized and decentralized forces.

louis xiv

The main goal of Gustavus II Adolphus's intervention in the Thirty Years' War was the creation of a Swedish-_________ centralized state around the Baltic Sea.

lutheran

Isaac Newton's ___________ Principles of Natural Philosophy, published in 1687, was the towering achievement of the New Sciences.

mathematical

Toward the first half of the fifteenth century, the Ottoman sultans equipped their Janissaries with cannons and ________

muskets

Ghana came to resemble the states on the Swahili coast and their hinterlands, where only the rulers and merchants were ____________.

muslims

In the course of his 14th-century journeys, Ibn Battuta passed through western Anatolia and Constantinople and was impressed by the rising power of the _______

ottomans

The first attempt to open up gloomy Romanesque interiors

paris

In 1295, King Edward I convened the so-called Model _________, comprised of an upper house of nobles and a lower house of 'knights of the shires and burgesses of the towns'.

parliament

The East and West African expansion of trade under the impact of Islam may have also indirectly led to a __________ in the interior of Africa.

population increase

Auto-da-fé" means "act of faith" in the ___________ language.

portugese

A ruling in the mid-800s by an Egyptian Muslim judge allowed Nubian Muslims to acquire __________.

private property

Among the golden objects found among the items of the royal dynasty of Mapungubwe, signifying the power and magic of the kings, was a ____________.

rhinoceros

The Danish mariner Peter von Sivers rose to the position of admiral in the _________ fleet.

russian

______ means 'the way of the gods', and Japanese mythology recognized a staggering array of deities.

shinto

The Shehzade and Süleymaniye mosques in Istanbul and the Selimiye mosque in Edirne were designed by __________.

sinan

Stationary theaters with stages, main floors, balconies, and boxes appeared in the main cities of Spain during the ________ century.

sixteenth

Introduced from China by the Zen monk Eisai (1141-1215), ___________ in Japan became widely adopted as an aid to discipline and meditation among monks in the twelfth century.

tea drinking

Mansa Musa established the city of ________ as a center of learning, focusing on Islamic law but also offering courses in a wide variety of sciences

timbuktu

Southeast Asia is crossed by several major river systems, including all of the following except:

tonkin

Mehmet II besieged and conquered Constantinople within ________ in 1453.

two months

Nubian kingdoms prospered in large part as the result of the rapid spread of the animal-driven ________ invented in Egypt in the first century CE.

waterwheel

Many small rivers open into the Indian Ocean, but only the _________ River in the south was large enough to allow longer-range water traffic and the building of inland towns.

zambezi

A member of the _________ family of rulers, Frederick II "the Great" of Prussia enlarged his army and pursued an aggressive foreign policy.

Hohenzollern

Like the codes of chivalry current in Europe at the time, daimyo and samurai prided themselves on acting according to a strict system of ____________ called 'bushido'.

Honor and loyalty

In spite of the innovative nature of scholasticism, the Aristotelian logic upon which it was based was suspected of being:

Incompatible with Christian doctrine.

A Mongol armada was smashed by a typhoon in 1281, known ever after by the Japanese as kamikaze, '_______'.

The divine wind

The Jewish community of ___________ excommunicated Baruch Spinoza for heresy, since he seemed to make God immanent in the world.

amsterdam

On St. _______'s Day in August 1572, the Catholic king and aristocracy of France perpetrated a wholesale slaughter of thousands of Huguenots.

bartholemew

The Ottomans benefited from the trade of a new commodity, _____________, which was produced in Ethiopia and Yemen.

coffee

All territories within France controlled directly by the king, as in the case of the lands controlled by Hugh Capet between 987 and 996 were called his ___________.

demesne

'Nam Viet' was the local name for the Chinese 'Nanyue' ('___________'), as the Qin had called their new province.

far south

Fought in the Eastern Mediterranean in 1571, the Christians won the Battle of _________ thanks to their superior naval tactics.

lepanto

By 1400, Swahili city-states included all of the following except:

limpopo

Sungbo's Eredo is a ___________ combination up to 70 feet deep/high and 100 miles long.

moat and rampart

Education in the 'vernacular' language was especially popular in the city-states of _________, where the emphasis was on educating students for productive careers in the secular world.

northern italy

The religious heritage of the Solomonids still lives on in Ethiopia, and among the _________, who form a small minority in Jamaica and are associated with Bob Marley.

rastafarians

The Karagöz was a:

shadow puppet theater

The stripes on the faces of some Ife figures are believed to distinguish one lineage from another or to represent:

the passage from youth to adulthood