Post Classical Far East
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- Which of the following statements about Muslim women is not true?
- They often played a role in public life
- To demonstrate their rejection of the Mongols, the Ming emperor
- severed relations with the Middle East and central asia and closed the borders to foreigners
- The rise of literacy in Korea resulted from the
- combination of an improved printing system and the han'gul writing system.
- Much to the distress of the Confucianists the Mongols elevated the status of
- merchants
- The Mongol expansion
- created a flow of disease via the trade routes
- In return for the use of their lord's land, serfs
- had to give the lord a share of the harvest and perform services
- Which of the following has not been a factor in India's habitual political fragmentation historically?
- competition between different claimants for political power
- The test uses the example of Tang style warfare and pottery to demonstarate their
- appreciation for both Turkish and Chinese culture
- To faciliatate communication and trade between North China and South China, the Sui built the
- Grand Canal
- The 1st Mongol conquests under Genghis Khan were in
- China
- The Tang Empire is considered 'cosmopolitan' because
- it mixed styles, goods, and cultures from every part of Asia
- The Greeks viewed the sea as
- an important 'connector'
- The decline of the Tang Empire occurred when
- political decay and military decline undermined the social order
- Chinese maritime innovations included
- compasses and large oceangoing ships.
- Diaspora means
- scattering
- Why didnt ming Chrina develop seafaring for commercial and military gain
- The mongol threat from the north took priority over seafaring.
- Which of the following cannot be said about Zhu Xi's Neo Confucianism?
- The ideal human is the warrior
- By instituting civil service examinations for entrance into the government bureaucracy, the Song
- recruited the most talented men for government service
- Historians state that the song technological innovations led the Song to
- coming closer to having an industrial revolution
- The tributary system was a practice in which
- countries acknowledged the supremacy of the Chinese emperor.
- How did the threat of Mongol invasion affect Japan?
- The Japanese military governments spent a lot of time building coastral defenses, hoping to consolidate the warrior class
- During the Song period, women experiences subordination and social restriction epitomized by the
- footbinding
- Two protracted and bloody wars against the Carthaginians were important because
- Rome won control of the wester Mediterranean
- The Emperor Yongle restored commercial links with the Middle East by
- exploring maritime connections and encouraging the voyages of Zheng He.
- As an advantage of Mongol rule was that
- it promoited the spread of ideas and movement of people in Eurasia
- What metal was crucially important to the Central Asian nomads?
- iron
- How did Mongol control impact Russia's Orthodox Church?
- They were granted great priveleges
- Japanese emperors
- seldom wielded any real political power
- Which of the following Chinese technologies were not among those borrowed by the Koreans to make editions of Buddhist texts?
- moveable type
- Of the many things that Central Asia and the Islamic world introduced to China which of the following was not among them?
- gunpowder
- The religion of the central asian nomads was
- a diverse mixture of various religions.
- Which of hte following was not one of the techniques employed by the Mongols to defeat the armies they faced?
- Diplomacy
- In 1295, the IlKhan ruler Ghazan converted to which religion?
- Islam
- Why did the Mongols refrain from attacking central Europe in 1241
- the death of the Great Khan
- Mongol armies often consisted of
- a multinational force with mongol leaders.
- One impact that the sea treade had on China was the
- transmission of the plague.
- What was the role of Mongol women in politics
- Women from prestigious families were often powerful in negotiation and management
- in 1453 the Ottomans conquered which important Christian city?
- Constantinople
- Which city became Russia's dominant political center under the Mongols?
- Moscow
- Which of the following is not one of the aspects of Mongol rule that created hardship and a sharp population decrease
- their insistence that the Chinese practice agriculture rather than trade.
- After Tibertan government attempts to eliminate the influence of monasteries Tibetan Buddhists responded by
- assassinating the king and controlling the royal family
- The Chinese political system which relied primarily on strict laws and punishments in order to compel the people to behave is called
- Legalism
- Which of the following were not practices connected with monasticism?
- living in society to spread good influence and performing sacraments
- Why didnt China as we think of it today exist before the Mongols?
- The Mongols reunited Chine permanently.
- Which of the followng did the Europeans not learn about from the Mongols?
- porcelain
- The relationship between the leading family in Korea, the Koryo family, and the Mongols was that
- the Koryo family became attatched and loyal to the Mongols.
- The Mongols encouraged the sharing and exchange of all of the following except for
- Confucianism
- The Ming produced one of the most prized commercial products of Eurasia
- porcelain
- in 1368 the Yuan empire was overthrown and replaced by the
- Ming empire
- Why was there a cultural flowering in Iran, Afghanistan, and Central Asia under the Timurids?
- Iran and China shared artistic trends and political ideas