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11/29/2005

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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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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 guild was
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An association of craft specialists from the same trade
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Five main requirements of the Code of the Bushido
1. Fidelity - towards master (lord) and Fatherland, respect towards parents, brothers and sisters
2. Politeness (reigi) - respect and love, modesty and correct etiquette (formality)
3. Virility - valor,
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It was strongly influenced by other eastern philosophies like Zen Buddhism and Confucianism
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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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Africa gained an international reputation for its production of
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Gold
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The empires of Mali in West Africa and Delhi in southern Asia both utilized
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Islamic administration
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The empires of Mali in West Africa and Delhi in southern Asia both utilized
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Islamic administration
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Some of the Òlost knowledgeÓ of the Greek and Arab world came into the Latin West through
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The recapture of southern Italy from the Byzantines and Sicily and Spain from the Muslims
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All of the following were characteristic of nomadic groups in the eras before 1450 C.E. EXCEPT:
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Nomadic societies almost never had positive influence on settled peoples.
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All of the following groups invaded Europe between 400 and 1000 C.E. EXCEPT
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Mongols
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The ideals developed in the Athens of Pericles and in Republican Rome influenced the development of
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a parliament in Britain
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The establishment of the Mongol Empire had all of the following consequences EXCEPT:
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the demand for European products such as wool, porcelain, sugar, spices, and coffee
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This great city of Tenochtitlán is built on the salt lake.... It has four approaches by means of artificial causeways.... The city is as large as Seville or Cordoba. Its streets...are very broad and straight, some of these, and all the others, are one ha
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It had complex urban centers.
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What is suggested about the plague by the picture of a
medieval physician below?
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Physicians had to wear special costumes in order to keep their exposure to the disease at a minimum.
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How did the steppes define Mongol nomadic life?
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. scarcity of resources led to need to search for that which was needed
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What did the practice of foot-binding encouraged by neo-Confucianism reflect about gender attitudes during the Song period?
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Female subjugation was a common feature of Chinese society.
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One of the Inca accomplishments was the construction of
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a vast network of roads.
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The plague has stunned Europe, and everywhere people are desperate for an explanation. Some blame invisible particles carried in the wind, others talk of poisoned wells. Many inevitably, blame the Jews. Immediate responses differ widely. Some choose to ch
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It generated waves of anti-Semitism since Jews were used as scapegoats.
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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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The three field system was
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An agriculboth were more ceremonial figureheads than actual rulerstural 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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What is the most likely reason why technological development slowed down during the Ming period?
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a. All of the answers except none
b. Educated men were drawn into government employment
c. A scarcity of metals
d. A large labor supply lowered the need for mechanization
e. None of the other ansers
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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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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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