History

Portuguese

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

Far South

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

The divine wind

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

Burial mound

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

Vijayanagar

A new Hindu state emerged in 1336 with the founding of the city of ___________, which was deemed fabulously wealthy by the first Portuguese traders in the sixteenth century.

Private property

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

Leo X

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

Well run, wealthy, and justly administered.

After his visit to Harsha's kingdom, Xuan Zang pronounced it:

1290

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

Seven captured Caribbean islanders

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

Magna Chartists

All of the following rebellions resulted from the Black Death except the: Jacquerie Peasant's Revolt Ciompi Magna Chartists

Demesne

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 BLANK

Rhinoceros

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

Murdered her child in her quest to achieve political power.

Among the scurrilous accusations made against Empress Wu was that she had:

Henry

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

Great Zimbabwe

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

Guinea

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 __________.

Guilds

BLANK were associations of merchants and artisans intended to protect and promote affairs of common interests.

Buddhist monk

By 1368, a coalition led by Zhu Yuanzhang, who was both a soldier and a ____________, had driven the Mongols from their capital and proclaimed a new dynastic line, the Ming.

Limpopo

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

Han

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

Lisbon

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.

15 million

By the second half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was a vast multiethnic and multireligious state of some ______________ inhabitants.

cities

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

The interpretations and approaches to understanding its core teachings.

Debates on Neo-Confucianism in China centered on ___________.

Anointed with Holy Oil

During the Coronation of PepinIIII 'the short,' the Pople included the ceremony of untion (used earlier by the Visigoths), in which the newly crowned person was:

Northern Italy

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.

Passing a series of examinations.

Entry into the Tang government's bureaucratic service was possible only after:

Lepanto

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

Vassals

Fudalism consisted of powerful landed aristocrats (lords) who assembled small private armies consistency of dependents (BLANK) in order to meet military emergencies.

Muslims

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

Attend a government-sponsored academy.

If a promising young man attained the rank of shengyuan, he was enabled to __________ and to draw a small stipend.

Mongol

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

Parliament

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

Chivalry

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

Given tax-exempt status

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

Venice

In spite of an exocommunication pronounced by Pope innocent III, crusaders from BLANK plundered Constantinople in 1204.

Incompatible with Christian doctrine

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

Ottomans

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 ____________.

Roman

In the mid-1400s, Ethiopian kings adopted a Christianized version of _______________ law, The Law of the Kings (Fetha Nagast) from the Egyptian Copts.

Tea drinking

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.

1429

Joan of Arc's victory at Orleans in _________ inspired the French to one success after another (even though Joan was burned at the stake two years later).

Honor and loyalty

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'.

Economic and Social

Manorialism was primarily an (BLANK) system that came to dominate medieval life in the wake of the carolingian empire's collapse.

Timbuktu

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

Zambezi

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.

Two months

Mehmet II besieged and conquered Constantinople within ________ in 1453.

Their surveillance and intelligence networks within the Song bureaucracy.

Mongol armies had all of the following advantages over their opponents EXCEPT:

Actively 'seek truth through facts'.

Neo-Confucianism holds that one cannot sit passively and wait for enlightenment, as the Buddhists do, but must __________.

The most durable opposing elements of two traditions merge into a compatible whole.

Neo-Confucianism resulted from a synthetic social and political formation, a pattern in which:

Waterwheel

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.

Grand Secretariat

One of Hongwu's first steps in reshaping the government was to create the ______________, a select group of officials who served as an advisory board to the emperor on all imperial matters.

Belgian

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.

An offshoot of Islam created by the prophet Muhammad's grandson.

Sikhism could be described in all of the following ways except: -A faith that emphasized a direct emotional experience with the divine. -An attempt to combine elements of Hinduism and Islam. - An offshoot of Islam created by the prophet Muhammad's grandson. -A faith that was persecuted by both Hindus and Muslims.

Tonkin

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

Sixteenth

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

Moat and rampart

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

Mosque

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

Japan

Tang rulers opened diplomatic relations with __________, which in 645 announced the Taika (Great Reform), a wholesale adoption of Tang imperial institutions, record keeping, and Buddhism.

Frederick I of Germany, Philip II of France, and Richard I of England.

The "Crusade of the Three Kings" was led by:

the appointment of clergy members

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

Yalu

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

Population increase

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.

Madrid

The El Escorial palace complex was built by Juan Bautista de Toledo in _____________.

Baltic

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

Shadow puppet theater

The Karagöz was a:

Chinese-style imperial histories

The Kojiki and Nihongi were:

Altaic

The Korean language may be distantly related to the __________ family of languages, which include Turkish, Mongolian, and Manchu.

Coffee

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

Minaret

The Qutb, built next to Delhi's first mosque, is said to still be the world's largest _________.

Sinan

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

Genji

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

Hanoi

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

Multiauthored adventure novel

The Water Margin (or All Men Are Brothers) is a representative example of a:

Shogun

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

Government-sponsored distribution of land.

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

Presence of refugees from Mongol raids in the Muslim sultanates.

The development of Sikhism resulted, in great measure, from the:

Paris

The first attempt to open up gloomy Romanesque interiors

1492

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

Long-distance trade

The medieval economy profited from several innovative financial and legal instruments, like the Commenda, which were devised to facilitate BLANK.

Benedict

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

Heavy taxation, including the jizya tax on non-Muslims

The northern sultanates, such as the regime of Ala-ud-din of the Tughluqs, supported their economies through __________.

Hokkaido

The northernmost of Japan's four main islands is:

Greatly increasing the number of bureaucratic positions to aid clan heads.

The official Wang Anshi (1021-1086) proposed all of the following reforms EXCEPT:

Toledo

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

Rastafarians

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.

The passage from youth to adulthood.

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

Hairy ones

The term "Ainu" means:

Kana script

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

Abyssinia

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

Muskets

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

Topkapi Palace

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

Ethiopia

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.

Daoism

With the coming of the Song dynasty, China would become a religious civilization in which people reemphasized the indigenous traditions of Confucianism and __________.

Shinto

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

Coptic

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

Charles V

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

India

n 1498, the king of Portugal sent Vasco da Gama on a voyage to __________.

Sister

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

Mongols

n the eighth century, Tang armies experienced a series of defeats at the hands of all of the following except: