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| Japanese and European feudalism were similar in all of the following ways EXCEPT: |
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| Feudalistic ties were sealed by negotiated contracts |
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| In what ways were the "new monarchies" able to raise funds? |
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| Taxes on lands, taxes from merchants, and voluntary contributions from the church |
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| What is the most likely reason why technological development slowed down during the Ming period? |
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A large labor supply lowered the need for mechanization
Educated men were drawn into government employment
A scarcity of metals |
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| The spread of Islam between 1200 and 1500 encouraged |
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The study of Islamic law, theology, and administration
The study of classical Greek scholarship in mathematics, medicine, and science
The introduction of new technology like papermaking |
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| The Emperor Yongle restored commercial links with the Middle East by |
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| Encouraging the voyages of Zheng He |
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| What prevented the Mongols from invading Japan |
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| A storm prevented them from establishing a base |
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| The three field system was |
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| An agricultural method of rotating crops |
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| Based on the chart above, in the feudal system of Japan and medieval Europe, the emperor was similar to the pope in that |
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| both were more ceremonial figureheads than actual rulers |
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| How did the collapse of the Mongol Empire in the fourteenth century affect trade? |
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| The Indian Ocean trade route grew in importance |
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| Cultural differences among American peoples are |
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| due to environmental and climatic variations |
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| Swahili, a common language to East African trading city-states, can be described as |
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| A combination of African and Arabic elements |
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| dominated trade in the Baltic region |
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| Mansa Musa made a famous pilgrimage that |
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| Served to demonstrate the enormous wealth of his country |
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| A social result of the Black Death epidemic was |
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A demand by laborers for higher pay
Peasant revolutions
The beginning of the end of serfdom for all intents and purposes |
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| Mongol rule created a sharp population decrease due to |
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Bubonic plague
Migration
Warfare |
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| "It is the imminent peril threatening you and all the faithful, which has brought us hither. From the confines of Jerusalem and the city of Constantinople a horrible tale has gone forth" The above quote describes which of the following events |
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| the capture of the Holy Lands by the Seljuk Turks |
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| In 1453, the Ottomans conquered which important Christian city? |
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| All of the following groups invaded Europe between 400 and 1000 C.E. EXCEPT |
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