APWH:M Unit 1 Review: The Global Tapestry

Question 1

What was the significance of Confucianism to state-building in China?

Accepted Answer

It created a highly educated elite due to the civil service examinations., It encouraged loyalty to the imperial bureacracy and family relationships., It justified the rule of the emperor over his subjects (Mandate of Heaven).

Question 2

What was the condition of the Abbasid Caliphate as the Song Dynasty thrived?

Accepted Answer

The Abbasids were fractured by invaders and falling apart.

Question 3

Why was the introduction of champa rice so important for the Song Dynasty?

Accepted Answer

It could be harvested multiple times throughout the year., It provided China with more food, leading to more population., It was a crop that resisted drought.

Question 4

How did Catholicism significant to state-building in Europe?

Accepted Answer

Towards 1450, Catholicism began to lose its power to more secular kings., The Roman Catholic Church provided structure to weak European states.

Question 5

Which phrase does NOT describe the Mamluks?

Accepted Answer

Remained enslaved to the Egyptian sultan until the fall of the Abbasids.

Question 6

What did all major religions have in common in this era and what effect did they have?

Accepted Answer

Christianity, Buddhism, and Islam sent missionaries to convert unbelievers., Local indigenous religions began to weaken and fade.

Question 7

What was the significance of Islam to state-building in the Middle East?

Accepted Answer

Islam united people with a shared belief system and language (Arabic).

Question 8

How were Hinduism and Buddhism significant to state-building in South and Southeast Asia?

Accepted Answer

Buddhism was used to centralize power under a benevolent ruler., The Hindu caste system cemented the social structure of many Hindu states.

Question 9

Which of the following does NOT describe a state?

Accepted Answer

One unifying culture.

Question 10

How did the Aztecs use the tribute system to maintain control of their empire?

Accepted Answer

Conquered people were forced to ensure safety with payment of goods/labor.

Question 11

In South Asia, what did the Vijayanagara Empire and Chola Kingdom use to expand their influence?

Accepted Answer

Trade across the Indian Ocean routes

Question 12

What innovation from China helped to improve education as it spread westward?

Accepted Answer

paper-making technology

Question 13

How did the rulers of the Mali Empire increase their power?

Accepted Answer

Centralized their power through the adoption of Islam and foreign trade.

Question 14

How did the role of nomadic pastoralists change in this time period?

Accepted Answer

They were no longer transmitters of culture and technology between empires.

Question 15

Which other Muslim states were growing in power as the Abbasid Caliphate declined?

Accepted Answer

The Delhi and Mamluk Sultanates

Question 16

TRUE or FALSE: Throughout 1200 to 1450, the Song Dynasty thrived, while the Abbasid Caliphate declined.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

In what ways did Europe change through 1200 to 1450 and create more powerful states?

Accepted Answer

Kings began to gain more power through military conquest., The feudal system began to break down as kings grew in power over nobles., Religion centralized power in the monarch, uniting warring kingdoms.

Question 18

What was the Abbasid Caliphate's House of Wisdom in Baghdad?

Accepted Answer

A place where scholars gathered to study and translate texts from Eurasia.

Question 19

How did the creation of the Delhi Sultanate and the expansion of trade help to spread Islam?

Accepted Answer

Merchants brought goods and shared Islam with people they interacted with., People converted to Islam in order to avoid paying the jiyza tax.

Question 20

Which of the following does NOT describe world civilizations from 1200 to 1450?

Accepted Answer

Military expansion stops.

Question 21

What innovations was NOT among those that kept China an economic powerhouse and unified the empire?

Accepted Answer

Printing press

Question 22

How did the Incas use the mit'a system to improve and maintain their state?

Accepted Answer

Incas required citizens to engage in mandatory public service or labor.

Question 23

What continuities existed in Chinese culture and government during the Song Dynasty?

Accepted Answer

The possibility for anyone to improve social status based on merit, The revival of Neo-Confucianism, The expansion of the civil service exams

Question 24

What is feudalism?

Accepted Answer

An economic system based on relationship between landowners and serfs., Kings were a part of this social system, but did not have much power., A rigid hierarchy that gave power to landowners who controlled peasants.

APWH:M Unit 1 Review: The Global Tapestry

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APWH:M Unit 1 Review: The Global Tapestry

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