Test Short Answer Part 2

Question 1

How does the Chinese practice of foot binding illustrate social and gender changes during the Song dynasty?

Answer 1

• It kept Woman within a beauty standard
• It limited a woman’s ability to move around, which would keep her reliant on men

Question 2

Islam had a revolutionary impact on every society that it touched.” What evidence might support this statement, and what might challenge it?

Answer 2

• All of these areas were influenced by the Chinese writing system.

Question 3

What changes did the Indian Ocean Trade Network bring to East Africa?

Answer 3

• political
• languages
• independant city state

Question 4

What changes did the trans-Saharan trade network bring to West Africa?

Answer 4

• brought Islam to West Africa
• significant urban development

Question 5

How was Christian civilization in Western Europe different from that in Eastern Europe?

Answer 5

Eastern Europe:
- each cultural zone developed its own patriarch, or religious leader.
Western Europe:
has a central religious figure (the Pope).

Question 6

What distinguished the Aztec and Inca empires from each other?

Answer 6

• The Inca Empire was much larger.
• The Aztec Empire controlled only part of the Mesoamerican cultural region, while at
  its height the Inca state encompassed practically the whole of the Andean
  civilization.

Question 7

What problems arise in defining the word “civilization”?

Answer 7

• The term “civilization” can be a problem for historians because it denotes superiority over other forms of societies, and because there were both good things (art, architecture, writing, increased control over nature) and bad things (extreme poverty alongside extreme wealth,
  cruelty, groveling, warfare) that these societies created.

Question 8

What distinguishes the civilizations of the Americas from those of Afro-Eurasia?

Answer 8

• America:
• were isolated
• There were more empires in Afro-Eurasia than in North and South America

Afro Eurasia:
- There was more exchange across long-distance trade networks in Afro-Eurasia.

Question 9

In what different ways were civilizations spreading beyond their traditional heartlands between 1200 and 1450?

Answer 9

• biggest difference could be the size of the expansion.
• The Aztec empire was much smaller than the Muslim empires or Song China.

Question 10

Identify ONE new technology adopted by Europeans between 1200 and 1450.

Answer 10

(clock)

Question 11

. Explain ONE social or economic consequence of Europe’s use of new technologies between 1200 and 1450.

Answer 11

increased trade and towns became centers of production and markets for goods.

Question 12

Explain how Europe’s interaction with other civilizations after 1200 led to cultural transformations.

Answer 12

Trade caused the Muslim world to increase
- Europeans were reintroduced to Greek science and philosophy.

Question 13

compare cinas influence on vietnam with its influence e on Korea and japan

Answer 13

-Daoism and Buddhism became more popular as well as poeswtry and art