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| What was most responsible for moving humans toward civilization? |
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| What started in the ME and dev ind in other areas |
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| What was the imp. of cuneiform and other types of writing |
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| It helped org. elaborate polit. structures by record keeping |
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| What was the a direct result of agr. tech. improvements |
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| gupta emp, egypt, mohenjo dar, mesop... |
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| What wer features of the late paleolithic age |
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| stone tools, hunter gatherers |
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| What did confucianism and daoism do for society |
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| originated as responses to societal problems during times of disruption and created a culural balance and stability |
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| When did chinese civ. dev compared to other civs |
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| later, after egypt and mesop |
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| What was the nature of confucian social relationships |
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| est a hierarchy and patriarchy and insistd upon reciprocol duties btw ppl |
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| What did the qin dy due to support and enhance the pwr of the emp |
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| stripped pwr of warlords and paid nomads to prevent invasion |
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| Which chinese culture instituted civil service exams |
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| Who were the largest group of ppl in clasical china |
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| What was the status of chinese women in the classical age |
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| woman were legally subordinated to fathers and husbands at all class levels |
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| Trade rt that connected asia to ME and facilitated trade |
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| What was a major diff. btw buddhism and hinduism |
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| Buddhism is founded by a particular prophet and Hinduism focused on caste system |
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| What was the chief reason buddhism spread |
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| monastic community and related missionary activities |
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| What were some products that china exported along the silk roadd |
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| gunpowder, pottery, spices, jade, paper |
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| How did greco roman philosophers try to understand human nature |
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| rational observation and deduction |
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| What were the reasons for romes successful expansion |
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| roads, trained military, rich agri econ, roman gov was flexible, made conquered elites into citizens |
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| What products did euro learn from the mongols |
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| gunpowder, ideas, weapons, diplomatic sys, passport, moveable type |
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| What was the major reason for the spread of christianity |
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| It became part of the roman emp, constantine adopted christianity and sent missionaries |
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| What was the view towards merchants in classical Rome , Greece, and China |
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| They were ambivalent toward merchants despite their vital roles in commerce |
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| Which 2 religions shared the belief taht all of humanity was brothers under one god |
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| What issue split muslims into shi'a and sunni |
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| problem with succession of caliphate, sunni was for election while shi'a were for descendents |
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| What was teh primary reason for the arabs successful conquest of the middle east and north africa |
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| united muslim armies conquered and defeated persians and byzantine empire |
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| What did the status of women in islamic societies begin to decline during the caliphate |
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| they reverted back to preislamic/bedouin tradition |
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| What societal aspect made islamic societies resemble rome and other classical societies |
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| religious/cultural tolerance, slavery, artistic culture |
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| What is meant by the term islamic flowering during the age of the caliphate |
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| increase of islamic discovery similar to the golden age |
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| What were the reasons of the slow decline of abbasid power |
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| succession dispute, turks growing polit pwr, rebellion |
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| What accounted for the increasing pop of the sufi inthe later abbasid dy? |
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| advocated less academic, more personal/evolutional form of worship |
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| What helped to end the abbasid caliphate in Iraq |
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| Nomadic invasion of mongols |
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| To what did the contancts btw hindus and muslims in south asia lead |
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| Religious dispute, absorption of muslim practices into hinduism |
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| What was the main source of chinese influence on japan |
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| Waht was a common concern for west african muslims like ibn battuta? |
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| each region let too much of their own culture into muslim beliefs |
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| Describe the slave trade from africa to the muslim world |
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| Slave trade existed before muslims came. They saw it as a natural extension of their society |
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| Compare justinians code to hammurabis law code |
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| Both were written documents created to unify the empire and let ppl know where they stand |
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| what did the acts. of cyril and methodius accomplish |
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| Converted s. russia and balkans region to orthodox christianity with the use of Cyrillic. |
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| What group org. the first state in russia |
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| What were the causes for the decline of byzantium |
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| nomad invadors, constantinople fell to seljuk turks, muslims seized provinces holding food and land, crusades |
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| What dev in medieval euro as a result of the rise of trade |
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| tradecenters, guilds, banking system |
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| What was teh primary function of the scholar gentry class in tang and song china? |
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| Why did buddhism become a sig belief sys in Tang and Song China |
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| provided social opportunities, was given support by emperors, mixed with daoism and confucianism, |
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| What were the consequences of new maritime tech advances such as the junk and magnetic compass |
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| Trade increase threatened schol gent |
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| Beside trade, what did trade routes promote |
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| cultural diffision, growth of cities, tech innovd |
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| What was the purpose fo a griot |
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| Story tellers who provided history and also served as advisors |
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| city in Mts along red sea/umayyad Clan, ka'ba, Muhammad, pilgrimage |
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| Most imp. Ruler of babylon emperor (create hammurabis code) |
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| divine source of pwr (chinese)rule |
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| (Rome)A st where power is held by the ppl and their elected reps |
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| Trans saharan caravan routes |
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| Trading network linking North Africa with sub-Saharan Africa across the Sahara. |
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| Group that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed |
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| A group that accepts the first four caliphs as rightful successors to Muhammad.(elected) |
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| Excessive adherence to law or formula |
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| languages spoken by native peoples of central and southern Africa |
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