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The collection of Confucian sayings and teachings is known as the
A) Mencius
B) reflections on things at hand
C) memoirs of a philosopher
D) reflections on a quiet life
E) analects |
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The philosophy of Confucius
A) formed a throroughly practical and secular approach to life
B) called for a strict adherence to the will of the gods
C) addressed abstruse philosophical questions
D) was deeply religious
E) was inspired by the Hindu Upanishads |
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| A) formed a thoroughly practical and secular approach to life |
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Confucius believed that political ad social harmony
A) could only be imposed by a powerful king
B) depended on the proper structuring of a strong centralized gov.
C) arose from the proper ordering of human relationships
D) was available to human beings if they expressed a deep devotion to the gods
E) came for a retreat into a quiet life of meditation |
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| C) arose from the proper ordering of human relationships |
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Through the efforts of Confucius the literary works of the Zhou period
A)were included in the Persian Gathas
B) became the core texts of traditional Chinese education
C) were replaced by newer and more important texts
D) were translated from the original cuneiform
E)were completely destroyed |
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| B) became the core texts of traditional Chinese education |
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Chinese philosophers often spoke of the following term which means "the way"
A) junzi
B) li
C) ren
D) dao
E) dasas |
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The most important text of daoism is the
A) analects
B) wuwei
C) dao of reflection
D) book of songs
E) daodejing |
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During the time of the aryans, the Indian political landscape was characterized by
A) a series of small kingdoms
B) constant bloody civil war
C) efficient centralized gov.
D) a turbans but profitable union with china
E) two equally matched rival states |
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| A) a series of small kingdoms |
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The Indian political scene changed dramatically in 520 bce when new administrative techniques were introduced after the invasions of the
A) austronesians
B) Greeks
C) Persians
D) aryans
E) Chinese |
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Alexander of Macedon's invasion of which country in 327 bce caused political chaos that eventually led to the country's unification?
A) Greece
B) china
C)Egypt
D) India
E) Persia |
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The first ruler to unify India was
A) chandragupta Maurya
B) Ashoka Maurya
C) harsha
D) Cyrus The great
E) shihuangdi |
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The arthashastra reflected the political authority of
A) Chandra Gupta
B) Cyrus the great
C) Ashoka Maurya
D) Qin shihuangdi
E) chandragupta maurya |
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The high point of mauryan success came during the reign of
A) harsha
B) Ashoka
C) Chandra Gupta II
D) kautalya
E) chandragupta Maurya |
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After the collapse of thd mauryan empire India
A) suffered through a long period of chaos by later Dravidian uprising
B) was immediately reunified in a new empire
C) returned to a series of regional kingdoms
D) was united by a new wave of invaders
E) was absorbed into the expanding Chinese empire |
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| C) returned to a series of regional kingdoms |
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Politically the guptas
A) created a much larger and more powerful state than the mauryans did
B) left local government and administration in the hands of their allies
C) achieved thd same level of centralized power that had exhausted under the mauryans
D) were able to bring complete unification to India by spreading a state supported religion
E) Brought unprecedented Civil strife to India |
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| B) Left local government and administration in the hands of Their allies |
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The eventual collapse of the Gupta state was partially caused by an invasion by the
A) White Huns
B) Chinese
C) Romans
D) Persians
E) mauryans |
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The Homeric epic the lilad deals with
A) The journey home of the hero Odysseus
B) The adventures of the hero Rama
C) tHe war to capture Troy
D) The adventures and tragic end of Jason and Medea
E) The adventures of Aeneas |
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| B) the war to capture Troy |
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The political structure of the ancient Greeks
A) Was very similar to that of Egypt
B) Achieve unification under Pericles
C) Usually consisted of independent autonomous city states
D) Was a history of early long-lasting centralized government
E) Stabilized after conquest by Persia |
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| C) Usually consisted of independent Autonomous city states |
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Of the natural disasters that plagued the Minoans the most devastating was the volcanic eruption and 1628 B.C.E. on the island
A) salamis
B) Atlantis
C) Corsica
D) Crete
E) Thera |
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Minoans Wrote with a script not yet deciphered that was known as
A) Linear B
B) Linear A
C) Coptic
D) Hieroglyphics
E) Harappa |
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The Greeks used the word polis to refer to
A) barbarians
B) thd notion of loyalty to the centralized gov
C) the pursuit of truth
D) the concept of excessive pride
E) the city state |
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The Spartans were constantly afraid of the prospect of an uprising by the serfs known as
A) poleis
B) Minoans
C) helots
D) Athenians
E) Dravidians |
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Distinction among the ancient Spartans came from
A) Discipline and military talent
B) family lineage
C) social status
D) accumulated wealth
E) political infighting |
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| A) Discipline and military talent |
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Athenian democracy was open to
A) all male citizens
B) all males
C) all Athenians
D) both men and women as long as they owned property
E) all Greek citizens |
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Which of the following events occurred during the time of Pericles
A) Athenian democracy it reached its High Point
B) Athans became the most sophisticated of the poleis
C) Athenian expansion and arrogance help spark thr Peloponnesian war
D) Athens underwent a massive building program
E) All of the above |
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Which of the following did not come because of Greek colonization
A) The spread of Greek language and cultural traditions
B) And increase any size and diversity of trade
C) a centralized imperial state
D) Increased contact with other societies
E) a quickening of the tempo of social life |
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| C) a centralized imperial state |
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Who won the Peloponnesian war
A) Sparta
B) Carthage
C) Athens
D) Thebes
E) Persia |
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According to legend Rome was founded by
A) Paul of tarus
B) cincinnatus
C) Romulus
D) Tarquin the proud
E) none of the above |
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During its early history Rome was dominated by
A) Greeks
B) Assyrians
C) Persians
D) Minoans
E) Etruscans |
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During times of crisis the Romans would appoint an official with absolute power known as an
A)tribune
B) archon
C) emperor
D) dictator
E) consul |
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The turning point in Roman history was there struggle in the Punic wars with the
A) Carthaginians
B) Greeks
C) Persians
D) Sassanids
E) Phoenicians |
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The leading figure in the expansion of Christianity beyond Judaism was
A) Mithras
B) Jesus of Nazareth
C) Paul of tarus
D) st Augustine
E) Marcus tullius Cicero |
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The Essenes were
A) The aristocratic class rome
B) The political officials chosen by the plebeians
C) Rome's main rival in the Punic wars
D) a Jewish sect that looked for the appearance of a Savior
E) The followers of the colt Isis |
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| D) a Jewish sect that looked for the appearance of a savior |
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The easternmost point of the silk roads was the Han capital of
A) dunhaung
B) erlitou
C) kashgar
D) Beijing
E) chang'an |
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Be most important port on the Red Sea instructed to by the ptolemies was
A) Berenice
B) Alexandria
C) tyre
D) Thebes
E) Meroe |
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Which of the following deserts was one of the most dangerous spots along the Silk Road ? its name means " he who enters just not come back out"
A) Sahara
B) taklamakan
C) Bactrian
D) gobi
E) geodrosian |
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The land toute of the silk Road spread from the Han capital of blank to the Mediterranean port of blank
A) dunhuang; Antioch
B) nanjing; Alexandria
C) Beijing; tyre
D) chang'an; Rome
E) chang'an; Antioch |
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Buddhism was spread to China by
A) foreign merchants
B) the Koreans
C) the Buddha
D) Indian holy men
E) the mauryan emperor Ashoka |
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The "hearers" were
A) manchiachs Who lived a normal life but strict code
B) slave of " the elect"
C) devout man. Who exchange for personal comfort
D) First disciples of the Buddhism and carried into China
E) Christians who brought their faith to Asia |
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| A) manchiachs Who lived a normal life but strict code |
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Devout Manichaeans, Who abstained from marriage and sexual relations and who devoted their lives to prayer and fasting were called the
A) chosen
B) pure
C) mani
D) elect
E) hearers |
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The Roman empire was divided into two parts by
A) Constantine
B) Attila
C) Augustus
D) theodosius
E) Diocletian |
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The phrase" one who has submitted "is the meaning of the term
A) Muslim
B) Jain
C) Christian
D) Hindu
E) Buddhist |
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In 595 Mohammed married a wealthy widow named
A) ibn rushd
B) Sufi
C) sharia
D) Khadija
E) Hadith |
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The Koran following the example of Mohammed allowed men to have up to how many wives
A) two
B) four
C) seven
D) ten
E) one |
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The Sufis believed
A) In an emotional and mystical union with Allah
B) That they and not the umayyads were the legitimate rulers of the Islamic world
C) thAt the leadership of the Islamic world has to pass through the line of Ali
D) In a strictly logical and rational definition of the divine
E) And it reconciling the spiritual and rational world |
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| A) In an emotional and mystical union with allah |
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The greatest contribution of Sui yangdi the second Sui emperor was
A) His conversion to Buddhism
B) His formation of a lasting trading network with the Byzantines
C) The construction of the grand Canal
D) a series of reforms that allowed the Sui to survive for another 300 years
E) His conquest of Vietnam |
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| C) The construction of the grand Canal |
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The success of the tang dynasty was due to its energetic second ruler who was he
A) yang Jian
B) Qin shihuangdi
C) tang taizong
D) song taizu
E) Confucius |
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During the tang dynasty the Imperial civil-service examinations
A) Where expanded allowing post to be filled with officials of genuine intellectual ability
B) Were restricted to the wealthier families
C) Were monopolized by the foreign Manchus and used for their advantage
D) Or halted and not restarted until the Ming dynasty
E) Declined dramatically in importance |
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A) Were expanded allowing post to be filled with officials Of
Genuine intellectual ability |
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After the collapse of the Gupta dynasty in the fifth century India would not be completely reunited until the
A) Seventh century
B) Ninth century
C) 13th century
D) 16th century
E) 20th century |
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Islam reached India by all the following routes except
A) Missionaries sent by the Emperor Harsha
B) Islamic merchants
C) Conquests by a Arabic invaders and missionaries sent by harsha
D) Conquest by arabic Invaders
E) migrations from Turkish speaking people's from Central Asia |
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| A) missionaries sent by the emperor Hershey |
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Hindu temples
A) Remained centers of women's rights
B) Played and important role in the agricultural and financial development of southern India
C) Held southern India back economically because of the Hindu law against lending money
D) Are never able to compete with the strong Buddhist temple of northern India
E) Disappeared in southern India because of the prominence of Islam |
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| B) Played an important role in the agricultural and financial development of southern India |
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During the post classical age the cast system
A) Rejected migrants coming into India
B) Disappeared because of the arrival of Islam
C) Created chaos in local community
D) Was merged into modern Buddhist thought
E) Became securely established in southern Indiana for the first time |
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| E) Became securely established in southern India for the first time |
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Byzantine major advantage was its
A) Huge army
B) Strategic position on the Bosporus
C) Position as the greatest trading center of the Greek world
D) Status as the most populous city in the Mediterranean basin
E) Magnificent library which contained the cultural treasures of the Hellenistic world |
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| B) Strategic position on the Bosporus |
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The most important political feature of the Byzantine state was
A) It's division of power under the tetrarchs
B) It's reliance on Achaemenid ruling
C) It's docile acceptance of Rome superiority
D) It's tightly centralized role under a powerful emperor
E) It's republican governmental structure that resembled early Rome |
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| D) It's tightly centralized role under a powerful emperor |
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A mixture of secular and religious authority that Marked Constantine's reign as well as that of the Byzantine emperors is known as
A) ceasaropapism
B) divine right rule
C) corpus iuris civilis
D) Byzantine
E) secularism |
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The wife of Justinisn to prove to be an invaluable adviser was
A) livia
B) belisarius
C) Hagia Sophia
D) Olympia
E) Theodora |
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The largest empire of all time was created by
A) Romans
B) Chinese
C) Mongols
D) incas
E)Indians |
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The invasions of the nomadic Turkish and Mongol tribes between the 11th and 15th centuries
A) Facilitated greater cross cultural communication and integratation
B) Was brought to an end by increasingly powerful European states
C) Was inspired by their devotion to Islam
D) Left nothing but devastation in their wake
E) Lead to the rise of a centralized imperial state that ran from China to Persia |
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| E) Led to the rise of a centralized imperial state that ran from China to Persia |
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During period of Mongol domination
A) Interactions between people of Eurasia was limited by Mongol cruelty
B) Trade slowed because of taxation
C) Long trade became less risky |
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| C) Long trade became less risky |
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