World History ch 12 – Flashcards
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Which of the following was a feature of the communities in Australia in the fifteenth century?
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The practice of "firestick farming"
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Which of the following was a motivation for European expansion but not for Chinese expansion in the fifteenth century
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To gain direct access to the goods and wealth of the Indian Ocean basin
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In the fifteenth century, what did the Igbo people in West Africa have in common with the Iroquois League in North America?
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Institutions for resolving conflict in the absence of a state
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Which of the following reflected the fragmented and competitive political environment in Europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?
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The Hundred Years' War between England and France
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In its efforts to recover from the disruption of Mongol rule, where did the Ming dynasty look for inspiration?
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The culture of past Chinese dynasties
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The wars carried out by the Aztec Empire were linked to
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the practice of Human sacrifice
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Which of the following was the most centralized, unified and prosperous of the world's major civilization in the fifteenth century?
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China
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What was a principle underlying the Great Law of Peace of the Iroquois League?
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Limited Government
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in the fifteenth century, the gathering and hunting way of life associated with the Paleolithic era persisted in
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Australia
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Which of the following pairs of societies shared a common religion
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Songhay and Ottoman
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Which empire ended the Byzantine Empire and came the closest to conquering Europe?
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Ottoman Empire
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The ruler of the Songhay Empire made the pilgrimage to Mecca and asked to be given which title?
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caliph of the Land of the Blacks
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Which of the following was a web of connection that linked many of the peoples in the world of the fifteenth century?
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Empire
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What did the Inca Empire do that the Aztec Empire did not do?
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Build an elaborate bureaucracy to integrate and control its subjects
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in what way were the Aztec and Inca empires similar
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Both started out as marginalized peoples who conquered and absorbed older cultures
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Which city emerged as a major Muslim port city in the Indian Ocean basin in the fifteenth Century
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Malacca
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What did the Aztec Empire require conquered people to do
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Pay Tribute
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In the fifteenth century, long-distance trade shifted to
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East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean
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In which century did European peoples begin to take on a more prominent role on the global stage
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Fifteenth
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What could women do in both the Aztec and Inca Empires?
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Exercise political authority
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*What differences can you identify among the four major empires in the Islamic world of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?
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• The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal empires had Turkic origins, while the Songhay Empire did not. • The Ottoman and Safavid empires ruled over the heartland of the Muslim world, where a majority of their subjects followed Islam; the Mughal and Songhay empires ruled over regions where Islam was a minority faith. • The rulers of the Safavid Empire were the only ones to impose a Shia version of Islam as the official religion of the state. -Ottoman: Sunni Islam, HUGE territory, long-lasting, diverse, culturally sophisticated, wanted to bring unity to the Islamic world, politcal expansion -Safavid: Shia Islam, created a sharp divide in the middle east, hostile toward Ottomans -Songhay: impressive state system, HUGE traders, taxed commerce, Islam was for elites, major center for Islamic learning -Mughal: religiously diverse, largest religion an Islamic/Hindu mix, inclusive of natives
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*What European groups supported overseas exploration, and what were their motivations?
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Rivalry would drive the Europeans to the ends of the earth. Much of Europe's elite had an interest in overseas expansion because of its budding merchant communities saw opportunity for profit, its competing monarchs eyed the revenue that could come from taxing overseas trade or from seizing overseas resources. The Church foresaw the possibility of widespread conversion and impoverished nobles might imagine fame and fortune abroad.
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*what powers did the great law of peace give to the iroquois league of five nations
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* Conpare and contrast the Confucian revival in Ming China and the Renaissance in Europe
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*? Distinct features of gathering and hunting societies, agricultural village societies and pastoral societies
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Gathering & hunting- nomadic, small population w/o social class Agricultural- grows food Pastoral- raise and take care of animals
