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WHAP Review Ch 11-16
Review for 9wk CA (Chapters 11-16)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| India's influence on SE Asia | forms of government; did not take castes; religions (Buddhism and Hinduism (supported idea of a monarchy)) |
| Manichaeaism | promoted strict ascetic lifestyle, away from material and physical temptation, and promised individual salvation and eternal association with forces of light and good |
| Effect of epidemics on classical civilization | Decreased population by at least 25% |
| Yellow Turbans | Rebels in China who were rebelling against the Han Dynasty and the land distribution |
| Odovacar | deposed Ramiulus (the last Roman emperor), odovacar captured Ramiulus when he was twelve (didn't kill him; shipped him off somewhere) |
| Byzantian, why? | controlled a water and land route, and trade in all direction |
| Caesaropapism | defined the realationship between church and state in Byzantium |
| Justinian's major legacy | codification of Roman law |
| Theme system | an idividual province that was placed under the jurisdiction of a general |
| Greek fire | the secret weapon of the Eastern Roman emperors; hurled onto the ships of their enemies and caught fire instantly |
| Language/culture shift in empire | Byzantines spoke greek rather than roman latin, and considered themselves heirs to greek literacy legacy. |
| Fourth Crusade (1204 CE) | Re-take the holy sites from the Turks; supposed to depart from Europe to Egypt (never made it) by way of sea. |
| Schism of 1054 CE | Event that separated the Byzantine and Roman churches |
| Hajj | pilgrimage to Mecca; is one of the five pillars of Islam |
| "Islam" means... | the religious faith of Muslims, based on the words and religious system founded by the prophet Muhammad and taught by the Koran, the basic principle of which is absolute submission to a unique and personal god, Allah. |
| Islamic holy book | Quran |
| Shia vs. Sunni | Shia = party of the elite (miniority) Sunni = believed that any decent muslim could be a calif. |
| Umayyads and conquered peoples | Allowed retention of peoples' faith; required a tax payment (jizya) to continue religious practices |
| Fall of the Abbasads | regional civil wars, peasant rebellions, and foreign conquests |
| Islam and marriage | Women could inherit property / had their own rights / weren't considered property of men / women could divorce men / men allowed to have four wives |
| Indian and Persian influence on Islam | Persian: literary works, persian used as language of literature, poetry, history, political reflection Indian: mathematics |
| Grand Canal | ordered for trading purposes, as well as a means to ship ample supplies north in case his forces should engage the northern states of Song and Lu |
| Civil service during Tang and Song dynasty | They had to take the civil service exams, if you pass, you can be a part of the Chinese bureaucracy |
| Huang Chao | a general rebelling against the Tang dynasty, known for taking money from the money and giving it to the poor, massacred 120,000 foreigners |
| Footbinding | Practice in Chinese society to mutilate women's feet in order to make them smaller; produced pain and restricted women's movement; made it easier to confine women to the household. |
| Japanese Zen based on... | type of Chan Buddhism (peace of mind) |
| Korea borrowed ________ but not ________ from China | Confucianism; the Civil Service System |
| Vietnamese women vs. Chinese women | Vietnamese played a prominent role in society; Chinese women were expected to stay home. |
| Bushido | roughly translated as "the way of the warrior," is a Japanese code of conduct and way of samurai life. Stressed courage and loyalty and self-discipline and simple living |
| Political structure of post-classic India | Heavily decentralized, like Europe (no one empire) |
| Cause of the major decline of Buddhism | Turkish man (Mahmud) destroyed Hindu and Buddhist temples |
| Monsoon effects on agriculture | a comprehension of the monsoon system was essential for understanding the agriculture of India.; only solution for successful agriculture was irrigation. |
| Social role of Hindu temples | Possessed large tracts of land, hundreds of employees; Temple administrators were to maintain order, deliver taxes; Served as banks; engaged in business ventures |
| Bhakti beliefs, similar to? | syncretic faith (combo. of Hinduism and Islam); similar to Manichaeaism |
| What was unique about Melaka? | was the first kingdom in Southeast Asia to embrace Islam |
| Political structure of post-classic Europe | Decentralized (regional kingdoms) |
| Charlemagne's diplomatic relations | called the Holy Roman Emperor (he wasn't even Roman) |
| Purpose of the missi dominici | Used to oversee local authorities |
| Viking expansion, where? | from Scandinavia; went to Italy and Byzantium (South), Caspian Sea (East), Newfoundland, Canada (West) |
| Feudalism and state building | used to describe the political and social order of medieval Europe. |
| Reasons for Europe's increased agricultural production | advent of the moldboard plow, constructionof watermills, and the development of a useful horse collar. |
| What was unique about Theodora's background | she was a striptease |
| How did Abu al-Abbas get rid of his rivals? | massacred them after he invited them to dinner |
| How did introduction of new crops extend the growing season for Muslim farmers? | brought in new crops from other lands that could be grown in different kinds of weather |
| How did Mongols weaken the Persian economy? | Wrecked their agricultural systems (wrecked their underground irrigation systems) |
| Footbinding vs. Child marriage | To keep women in check; limit the public role of women |
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