Ch.7 Commerce and Culture
What did silk worms eat?
Mulberry leaves
Whom "picked up the pieces" when Chinese states occasionally broke down?
Which Islamic sect allowed women the most freedoms?
The Sufi Islam.
Jesus Sutras.
Which two empires took inspiration from the Xiongnu Empire.
The Turkic and the Mongol empires.
Which region introduced dyes on the Silk Road?
The Middle East
Despite being refer to as the "Golden Age" what evidence proves it to be less than golden?
The patriarchal rule pressuring foot binding on women- not a "golden" age for half the population.
What was the tax called to practice your own religion within the Islamic world?
jizya, tax which secured protection to practice a different religion.
What year was the conversion to Orthodoxy of the Kievan Rus?
988.
Which region and or peoples relied on the Bactrian (two humps) camel?
Inner Eurasian Steppes (Xiongnu, Yuezhi, Turks, Uighurs, Mongols, Huns, Kipchacks)
Which major scholar visited the Swahili cost in the early 14 century?
Ibn Battuta, Arabic scholar, merchant, and public official.
Where did the Xiongnu Empire reach to?
From Manchuria to Central Asia.
Which of the caliphates was deeply hated?
The Umayyads (661-750)
Who came after Charlemagne as Holy Roman Emperor?
Otto I of Saxony, gathered much of Germany under his control.
Which peoples prospered the most from the Mongolian trade of plants and crops.
Europeans.
What did oral traditions and mythologies have to say about the relationships between sexes in Western Africa?
Complementary relationship- power was derived from creating things- not hierarchal.
Which dynasty came after the Unified Silla (688-900) in the Korean peninsula?
Koryo Dynasty (918-1392) followed then by Joseon (1392-1910)
By 1000, about what precent of the population had converted to Islam?
~75%. The remaining pop. adopted Islamic ways and learning Arabic.
The warming trend in the environment, leading to more prosperous agriculture, was spanned by which years?
Roughly 750-1100 especially in northern highland regions.
Where would the internal bleeding occur in peoples infected with the Black Death?
Just below the skin.
What did the Andean Inca Empire during the 15th century use to record their stored good and transactions?
quipus (knotted cored used to record numerical data)
Whom launched the large scale invasion attempts into Japan?
Shotoku Taishi
Who order the building of a separate bridge for women over the Euphrates River?
The caliph Mansur.
What was the reason for the Ethiopian fascination with King Solomon?
Ethiopian Queen of Sheba was seduced by King Solomon and bore the next Ethiopian ruler in line- Ethiopians can now trace their lineage to Jesus.
under which name was the Khanate of the Golden Horde known to the Mongols?
Kipchak Khanate- incorporation of the Russians into the Mongol Empire.