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Chapter 13 Questions

  1. Which regions in Asia were drawn to Chinese cultural and political models?
  2. Who were the Asian satellites of Chinese civilization?
  3. When did Japan borrow heavily from Chinese culture?
  4. Know the term kami.
  5. Why did Buddhism play a key role in the transmission of Chinese civilization to Japan?
  6. Which periods was Chinese cultural influence significant?
  7. What were the Taika reforms?
  8. What was the purpose of Taika reforms?
  9. What group threatened the imperial court in the 8th century?
  10. What was the impact of the imperial move to Heian?
  11. Describe the military organization of the Heian government in Japan?
  12. What was the Tale of Genji?
  13. Describe the primary concerns at the imperial Japanese court at Heian?
  14. What did the Fujiwara family do in the middle of the 9th century?
  15. Know the term bushi.
  16. Describe the rise of provincial military elite during the 10th century.
  17. Know the term samurai.
  18. Describe the relationship of the imperial court to the provincial military elite.
  19. Describe the nature of warfare among the bushi.
  20. Describe the impact of the rise of the samurai on the peasantry.
  21. Know the status of the Japanese court aristocracy by the 11th and 12th centuries
  22. What were the Gempei Wars?
  23. What lead to the creation of the Bakufu in 1185?
  24. What victory marks the beginning of the feudal age in Japanese history?
  25. Describe the results of the growth of power of the provincial warrior elite?
  26. What events in Japan corresponded to the decline of the Tang dynasty in China?
  27. What happened in 838?
  28. Know the term shogun.
  29. What did the Hojo family do?
  30. What was the nature of the Japanese government following the death of Yoritomo?
  31. What did the Ashikaga Shogunate do?
  32. Describe the relationship between the Ashikaga Shogunate and the emperor.
  33. What faction was destroyed by a full scale civil war that raged from 1467 – 1477?
  34. Describe the political result of the wars that destroyed the Ashikaga Shogunate.
  35. How did warfare change under the daimyos?
  36. Describe the society and economy of the warlord era in Japanese History.
  37. Describe the status of women during the era of the daimyos.
  38. What did Zen Buddhism do during the period of the warring daimyos?
  39. Describe the developments during the era of the daimyos that laid a lasting foundation for lasting political unification in Japan.
  40. What year did the Han emperors conquer the first Korean kingdom of Choson?
  41. What was the Silla kingdom?
  42. Give the correct chronological sequence for the Korean dynasties.
  43. Describe the Korean bureaucracy under the influence of China.
  44. What was the religious preference of the Korean elite?
  45. Describe the nature of Korean society.
  46. Contrast the Viet and Chinese cultures prior to the Han conquest.
  47. Describe the Chinese cultural traits that were introduced into Vietnam after the Han conquest of 111 BCE.
  48. Describe the factors that led to the failure of the Chinese to assimilate the Vietnamese.
  49. What aspects of Chinese culture were retained by the Vietnamese rulers?
  50. Describe the political result of the Vietnamese drive to conquer the regions south of the RedRiver basin.

Chapter 14 Questions

  1. During what post-classical period did nomads of central Asia impact other global civilizations of the Eastern Hemisphere?
  2. The Mongols exemplified what type of society and culture?
  3. What did Mongol herds consist of primarily?
  4. What was the basic unit of Mongol society?
  5. Describe Mongol leadership in society.
  6. What did Kabul Khan do in the early 12th century?
  7. Describe Chinggis Khan’s early life.
  8. In what year was Chinggis Khan elected Khagan?
  9. What made up the Mongol military forces?
  10. Know the term tumens.
  11. Which weapons were parts of the arsenal of the Mongol army under Chinggis Khan?
  12. Who was Chinggis Khan’s first campaign directed against?
  13. Who did Chinggis Khan direct his troop against in 1219?
  14. What tacit did Chinggis Khan use most often on the battle field?
  15. What was the capitol under Chinggis Khan?
  16. What was the religious policy under Chinggis Khan?
  17. Describe the positive aspects of Chinggis Khan’s imperial rule.
  18. Who succeed Chinggis Khan>
  19. What happened to the kingdom after Chinggis Khan’s death?
  20. Which Khanate undertook the task of conquering Russia?
  21. Which Khanate undertook the invasion of the Muslim heartlands?
  22. Describe the political organization of Russia at the time of the Mongol invasion in the first part of the 13th century.
  23. Describe the nature of the Russian resistance to the Mongol invasions.
  24. Describe the social impact of the Mongol conquest of Russia?
  25. Why did Moscow profit most under the Mongol invasion?
  26. Who defeated the Golden Horde in 1380 in the battle of Kulikova?
  27. Describe the impacts of the period of Mongol rule on Russia.
  28. Why did the Mongols not pursue the conquest of Western Europe?
  29. Who ruled the Ikhan Horde?
  30. The Mongols ended the Abbasid dynasty in Baghdad, who else did they cause a decline in?
  31. Describe the impact of the Mongol conquest on the Islamic heartland?
  32. Who defeated the Mongols in 1260 at Ain Jalut?
  33. Why did the khan of the Ilkhan horde not follow up on the conquest of the Islamic heartland?
  34. Describe the impacts of the Mongol conquest on the Islamic heartland and Europe.
  35. Who was the commander in the 13th century campaigns against the Song?
  36. Describe the Mongol conquest of Song China.
  37. What is the Yuan?
  38. Describe the Yuan social order.
  39. Describe the methods employed by Kubilai Khan to maintain the separation of the Mongols and the Chinese.
  40. Describe the changes made under the administration of China under the Mongols.
  41. Describe the status of women during the Yuan dynasty of China.
  42. What was the Yuan policy of religion during the Mongol occupation of China?
  43. Which two social groups benefited most from the Yuan dynasty?
  44. Describe the decline in the military reputation of the Mongol Yuan dynasty in China.
  45. Who is Ju Yuanzhang and what social class did he come from?
  46. Who was Timur-i-Lang?
  47. Which areas were exposed to Turkic expansion in the 1360s?
  48. Compare the Turkic expansion from the 1360s to the 1400s to the Mongol expansion.
  49. Describe the shifts that allowed sedentary civilizations to dominate nomadic people after the 15th century.

Chapter 15 Questions

  1. Describe the decline in the Arabic caliphate by 1300.
  2. What was the date that Arabs were completely excluded from European trade?
  3. Describe Arabic trade after 1100.
  4. Describe the political fragmentation of the Arabic world.
  5. Describe the Ottoman Empire.
  6. What area was a new conquest for the Ottoman Empire?
  7. Which civilization attempted to fill the commercial vacuum created by the decline in Arabic trade?
  8. What Chinese dynasty succeeded the Mongol Yuan dynasty in China?
  9. What innovation was launched by the Ming dynasty?
  10. Why is the date 1433 important in the Ming dynasty?
  11. Describe the reasons for the Ming dynasty to halt trading expeditions.
  12. Who was Cheng Ho
  13. Describe the drawbacks to the West’s emergence as a global power.
  14. Describe the factors of the economic crises of the 14th century.
  15. How proportion of the European population died in the 14th century plague?
  16. Describe the sources of Western dynamism in the 14th and 15th centuries.
  17. Where did strong regional monarchies take hold during this period?
  18. From which source did technological innovations arrive in the West during the 13th and 14th centuries?
  19. Where did the Renaissance begin?
  20. Compare medieval culture and Renaissance culture.
  21. Describe the reasons that Italy emerged as the center of the early Renaissance.
  22. Who was Giotto?
  23. What was the importance of the city-state Genoa?
  24. What was another key center for political change, other then Italy, in the 14th and 15th centuries?
  25. Describe the development of states in the Iberian Peninsula.
  26. Describe the international economic difficulty experienced by the West by 1400 and their response.
  27. What was the key theme of Polynesian culture from the 7th century to 1400?
  28. Describe the characteristics of Hawaiian culture.
  29. Contrast New Zealand and Hawaii.
  30. Know the term ethnocentrism.
  31. Describe the European contact with sub-Saharan Africa after 1500.