quiz 4
The majority of the Jewish population in Granada was forced to emigrate by __________.
1492
Dinh Bo Linh, the first emperor of Vietnam, solidified his control of the region in __________ and the next dynasty modeled its institutions on those of Song China.
968 CE
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.
Altaic
The enclosure complex of the Zimbabwe seems to have been all of the following except:
An Islamic law school
The Christian hierarchy in Nubia was:
Appointed by and responsible to the patriarch in Alexandria
According to the official foundation narrative, the kings of Aksum were not only the descendants of the Queen of Sheba and the Israelite King Solomon but also the heirs to the Israelite __________________.
Ark of the Covenant
All of the following are true EXCEPT:
Asian literacy rates grew in the twelfth century, but never reached the levels attained in Europe.
One of the chief catalysts for printing was the growing popularity of _______ throughout east Asia.
Buddhism
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.
Burial mound
All of the following statements are true of Vietnamese agriculture EXCEPT:
By the mid-fifteenth century, there were about 50 strains of rice cultivated in northern Vietnam.
_________ inherited Habsburg territories throughout Europe and the Inca and Aztec Empires in the Americas when he became Emperor in 1516.
Charles V
A __________ bearing a date around 1505 was found in a burned and collapsed structure in the Great Zimbabwe compound, suggesting that trade routes were still viable at this period.
Chinese porcelain dish
In his preface, Cervantes claimed he had written Don Quixote of La Mancha to "ridicule the absurdity" of notions of ___________.
Chivalry
________ Christianity, centered in Egypt, emphasizes the sole divine nature of Jesus.
Coptic
_________ were autonomously-operating Christians or Muslims who pirated ships, confiscated their cargoes and held their crew and travelers for ransom.
Corsairs
The elites of Heian Japan saw themselves as part of a(n) ____________.
Cosmopolitan world, held together by Confucian and Buddhist principles
Unlike his counterparts like Isabella and Ferdinand, the Ottoman sultan:
Could prevent noble sons from inheriting lands from their fathers.
The sixth century was momentous in Japanese social, political, and cultural development in all of the following ways EXCEPT:
Daoism was formally adopted as the state religion by the Yamato empress Suiko.
After instituting their version of the Confucian examinations, Koreans:
Developed four basic classes: the high-ranking scholar/gentry; the lower or minor officials; commoners, such as artisans and peasants; and then the lower group, bond slaves, laborers, and prostitutes.
The dramatic changes in Japanese society and political organization during the period between 1250 and 1600 were made possible by:
Dramatic increases in food production
The onset of ___________ eventually led to the shrinking of the Malian empire by 1450
Drought
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
Geographically, Korea could be described as:
Generally mountainous in the north and hilly in the south.
The Tale of _________, credited to Murasaki Shikibu, is often considered the world's first novel.
Genji
In contrast to their Swahili colleagues, the kings of ______ avoided a combination of traditional notions of kingship with Islam.
Ghana
In many cases, the shoen, or clan estates, were ____________ because of their military contributions.
Given tax-exempt status
The chongjon system of Silla, begun in 722, mandated a(n):
Government-sponsored distribution of land.
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
By the fall of the _________ dynasty in 220 CE, we have the earliest remnant examples of wood-block printing.
Han
The Temple of Literature in _________ was the first national academy for Confucian training in Vietnam, founded in 1076.
Hanoi
An expedition sent out the Portuguese king ___________ the Navigator captured the city of Ceuta on the North African coast in 1415.
Henry
The northernmost of Japan's four main islands is:
Hokkaido
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
Sometime after 250 CE, Japan's first fully evolved state, Yamato, centered on the Kanto Plain near modern Tokyo, emerged and absorbed its weaker rivals on the island of __________.
Honshu
Christopher Columbus hoped to reach ___________ (and subsequently Jerusalem) by sailing westward across the Atlantic:
India
Since the Portuguese had pioneered a direct route from Europe to India via Africa, the _________ became another front of confrontation between Christians and Muslims in the race to gain dominance over the lucrative spice trade.
Indian ocean
All of the following are true of Japan EXCEPT:
Japan is fortunate in that an unusually high proportion of its land is suitable for agriculture.
In the 970s, the mysterious Queen Gudit or Judith:
Led several destructive campaigns in which churches were burned.
By 1400, Swahili city-states included all of the following except:
Limpopo
______________ was the most famous ruler of Mali and a staunch promoter of Islamic culture, science, and religion, especially in the city of Timbuktu.
Mansa Musa
The kingdoms of _______________ and Great Zimbabwe represent the high points of southern African kinship.
Mapungubwe
The epic of Sundiata demonstrates that:
Marginal figures in village life can cut across the established social order.
The ___________ Wong Kon (d. 943) subdued the crumbling kingdom of Silla and reconstituted it as Koryo, from which comes the name 'Korea'.
Merchant
Their conquest of the Balkans made the Ottomans the owners of the largest precious metal production centers prior to the Spanish Habsburg acquisition of the _________ mines in the mid-1500s.
Mexican and Andean
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
Toward the first half of the fifteenth century, the Ottoman sultans equipped their Janissaries with cannons and _________.
Muskets
During the period 600-1450, the Swahili people emerged as an indigenous African population of:
Muslims
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
It may seem strange that an avowedly _________ creed like Zen Buddhism came to be adopted by the Japanese warrior nobility.
Pacifistic
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
A ruling in the mid-800s by an Egyptian Muslim judge allowed Nubian Muslims to acquire __________.
Private property
Chinese cultural diffusion:
Proceeded more quickly in Japan than on the Asian mainland, perhaps because they were voluntary and not imposed from the outside.
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
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 Solomonid kings continued to embrace their Christian identity in legal matters, adopting a Christianized version of ____________, called The Law of the Kings or Fetha Nagast.
Roman law
The regularization of a trans-Saharan trade by the __________ in the mid-500s had a profound effect in the Sahel.
Romans
A practitioner of Zen Buddhism aims to transcend the self, reaching a state in which one is able to apprehend through extreme 'mindfulness' the ultimate insights that bring the flash of enlightenment or __________.
Satori
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 Karagöz was a:
Shadow puppet theater
______ means 'the way of the gods', and Japanese mythology recognized a staggering array of deities.
Shinto
Wealthy Swahili merchant families came to associate themselves with the capital of the Shiite dynasty of the Buyids in __________.
Shiraz
The chief military official of Japan was called a _____________, and the office would become hereditary in the Tokugawa period (1603-1867).
Shogun
The earliest Muslim merchants in East Africa were primarily interested in the ______________, a profitable enterprise in the Islamic empire.
Slave trade
In an effort to deal a definitive blow to the Ottoman naval threat, the Holy Christian League was formed consisting of _________.
Spain, the Pope, Venice and Genoa
The Empire of Mali was founded by Malinke King _____________.
Sundiata
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
The following events/circumstances were important in the development of the Yamato regime EXCEPT:
The Chinese concept of the "Mandate of Heaven" was rejected in favor of more concrete notions.
________________ is one of the earliest written histories in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Glorious Victories of Amda Seyon
All of the following are true of the Mongol conquests on the Korean peninsula EXCEPT:
The Mongols kept themselves separate from the Koreans, prohibiting intermarriage or the overt adoption of Korean culture.
Korea's final imperial dynasty was:
The Yi
One of the signs of the conversion of Nubians to Christianity in the 500s was:
The conversion of pagan temples into churches.
A Mongol armada was smashed by a typhoon in 1281, known ever after by the Japanese as kamikaze, '_______'.
The divine wind
Problems arising during the Heian period in Japan include all of the following EXCEPT:
The effectiveness of political organization in the outlying area diminished as power was absorbed by the capital.
The authors of the textbook consider the influence of China in northeast and southeast Asia to be analogous to:
The influence of the Greek-Hellenistic and Roman cultures in Europe.
All of the following are generally accurate about the institutions governing Vietnamese politics, labor, and trade EXCEPT:
The notion of a balance between the central and local governments was promoted, but it was always a sham.
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.
The Shogunate era in Japan refers to:
The time when real power was vested in a hereditary military dictator, with the emperor largely acting as a figurehead.
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
The expulsion of the Jews from "Sefarad", as Spain was called in Hebrew, was designed:
To strengthen the "Christian unity" of Iberia.
The _________ Sarayi or "Palace of the Gun Gate," begun in 1459, incorporated a royal residence, an imperial administrative school for the training of bureaucrats, barracks for the troops of Janissaries, an armory and a hospital, and it became an object of both fear and fascination for the Sultan's subjects.
Topkapï
All of the following Chinese cultural influences could be found in the kingdom of Koguryo by the fifth century CE except:
Translations of the poetry of Li Bai
In 1498, _________ reached India by way of Africa, becoming the first European to sail directly from Europe to India.
Vasco Da Gama
All of the following is true of the first Korean state EXCEPT:
We are able to reconstruct the history of early Korea from the copious written records of the first dynasty.
The examples of Murasaki Shikibu and Sei Shonagno reveal that:
Women could develop a highly influential cultural world, despite being sequestered.
Under the shoguns, the Japanese warrior class witnessed the union of bu and bun, the 'dual way' of the sword and __________.
Writing brush
The earliest of the rainforest village clusters to urbanize, Ife was the spiritual center of the _________ ethnic group and its oral traditions.
Yoruba
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
The __________________ of southern Africa was the first region of the interior where a pattern of increasing wealth and population density became visible, during the period 600-1505.
Zimbabwean Plateau
In the 400s, Nubian chiefs established three small kingdoms that prospered in large measure as a result of the rapid spread of ________________.
animal-driven waterwheels
The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans was possible through the use of _________ bombardment.
cannon
Ancient Ghana emerged in the 600s as the strongest group of ___________ between the Niger inland delta in the east and the Senegal valley in the west.
chiefdoms
Mali's supply of _________ enjoyed an increased demand in the Islamic realm on the other side of the Sahara.
gold
Archaeologists have so far discovered _____________ of a kingdom-wide taxation system in Christian Nubia.
no evidence whatsoever
Swahili _____________ were Muslims claiming Middle Eastern descent and, by virtue of profiting from long-distance trade with the countries around the Indian Ocean, either ascended to the throne of their cities as kings or governed their cities in a council along with their peers.
patricians
Under a king ruling by divine right, Ethiopia was a confederation of:
provincial lords.
Governmental auction of the taxes in kind of a particular district to the highest bidder was known as _________.
tax-farming
The following is one major difference between the Ottoman and the Spanish Habsburg Empires:
the cavalry ruling class of the Ottoman Empire was non-hereditary
