Islam, Byzantine, Trade Routes Test
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- According to the book, which of the following cannot be said to contribute to India's Diversity?
- It has great regional dietary differences.
- One early Russian chronicle reports that Vladmir 1 chose Orthodox Christianity over Islam because
- he knew that Islam forbade alcohol consumption.
- Which of the following is not one of the ways that Confucian philosophy attempts to create societal harmony?
- By emphasizing individual freedom.
- Although Minoan writing is undeciphered, Minoan artifacts indicate that
- they had widespread trade connections
- What military technologies did the Silk Road spread?
- chariot warfare, mounted bowman, stirrup.
- Among Byzantine cultural acheivments are
- their architectural tradition and cyrillic writing.
- After the seventh centurry, Byzantine women
- won increased rights to property and inheritance.
- Which of the following were not among the impressive navigational skills developed by the Malay people?
- the astrolab
- Though Greek sources depict Persian women as political pawns, recent findings suggest that Persian women of the elite class
- owned property and had political influence
- Umayyad Spain developed a distinctive Islamic culture because of the
- blending of Roman Germanic Jewish Arab and Berber traditions
- The Phoenician alphabet writing system was a great gift to Greece because
- it allowed for widespread literacy without years of study.
- The sixth century 'plague of Justinian' was
- an outbreak of the bubonic plague during justinians rule
- The Greek Dark age was a period of
- poverty, isolation, and depopulation.
- Schisms, the foremost threat to the Christian church in the Middle Ages, were
- formal divisions over differences in doctrine
- Coins were significant in all of the following ways except
- they were used to pay the professional soldiers.
- Which of the following has not been a factor in India's habitual political fragmentation historically?
- competition between different claimants for political power.
- The father of history in western tradition is
- Herodotus
- The habit of the Hindu pilgramage is most important because it promotes
- contact, exchanges of ideas, and a broad Hindu identity.
- A Greek population explosion led to
- the colonization of North africa, sicily, southern italy, and the black sea region
- Although Greece is described as 'resource poor' in the chapter, it economically prospered
- through access to foreign resources, markets, and ideas.
- One difference between Indian Ocean and Mediterranean seafaring was that
- Mediterranean seamen rarely sailed far from shore.
- Muhammad's teachings seem to be in agreement with
- Judaism and Christianity.
- Your book contends that which of the following theories for the development of Trans Saharan trade routes is most plausible?
- camel domestication
- The growth of settled agricultural communities resulted in
- trade and craft specializations
- The mariners involved in the Indian Ocean trade were
- a multilingual and multiethnic group
- The class and caste systems in India were connected to
- a widespread belief in reincarnation
- In Keivan Russia, power derived from
- Trade
- One of the most important contributions made by Gupta intellectuals was the
- concept of zero
- The Indian Ocean maritime system forged economic and social ties between
- East Africa, Arabia, India, China, and Southeast Asia
- Early Greek cultural unity can best be explained by
- extensice contacts and commerce between kingdoms
- Sub Saharan Africa's cultural unity emanated from
- people who once occupied the sub Saharan region.
- WHich of the following is not an example of a borad common element underlying African life and culture?
- a common language
- The Chinese political system which relied primarily on strict laws and punishments in order to compel the people to behave is called
- Legalism
- The Vedic Age was a new historical period in India marked by
- the dominance of Indo-Europeans over India
- The most important African network of cultural exchange can be described as
- mainly internal folk migrations within sub saharan africa
- Which of the following about Muslim women is not true
- they often played a role in public life
- Which of the following is not one of the reasons that the Assyrians were able to conquer vast territories
- they had accomplished and wily diplomats
- Which of the following areas was not brought under Muslim control under the leadership of the caliphs
- eastern europe
- Darius used art and sculpture to carefully craft a vision of a vast empire where
- all the subject peoples willingly cooperated
- Which of the following is not an element of the Hindu religion
- the denial of the existence of the soul
- The Silk Road was a trade route connecting
- China & the Middle East
- The Archaic Greek development of humanism, a lasting feature of Western Civilization, was
- a valuing of the uniqueness, rights, and talents of individuals
- In the 7th century, the Byzantines experienced an economic transformation similar to, though less pronounced than, Western Europe. This was evidenced by all the following except
- The rapid growth of the merchant class
- Muslim religious practice is based on the
- 5 Pillars
- By the end of the 12th century, the Byzantine Empire had lost a great deal of territory to
- Muslim Invaders from the Arabian Peninsula
- The decline of the Umayyad dynasty was due to
- growing unrest among non Arab Muslims who demanded access to political power.
- Which of the following statements is not true about Arab armies in their empire?
- They wanted to convert as many people as possible to Islam
- Which of the following is not generally considered to be an attribute of civilization?
- the absence of social class divisions
- Early Greek communities such as Mycenae, Thebes, and Pylos were organized around
- monumental building complexes on fortified hilltops.
- The division of the Muslim community grew because some believed that
- Ali was the legitimate religious leader after Muhammad