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Which of the following is NOT a nomadic group that pressured dynastic rule at some point over the course of Chinese history? • Mongol • Turk • Manchu • Tibetan
Which dynasty built the largest land empire? • Zhou • Tang • Song • Ming
Which do historians point to as the key infrastructural development of the Tang-Song era? • Construction of the Great Wall • Construction of a national highway system • Construction of the Grand Canal • Construction of the port at Canton
Which is most true about the staffing of the central administration of the imperial bureaucracy in the Tang-Song era? • Gifted females were targeted for rapid promotion • Positions were dominated by sinicized nomads • The staff comprised individuals from prominent families • Administrators were selected based on most effective tax collection
c. The staff were comprised individuals from prominent families
Which of the following does NOT belong in a list of similarities between Byzantine and dynastic Chinese political rule in the Tang era? • An imperial bureaucracy staffed by persons from all social classes but generally drawn from the aristocracy • An emperor whose rule has God’s approval • Regional governors appointed by the imperial center • Focused initiative to expand territorial boundaries of the empire
d. Focused initiative to expand territorial boundaries of the empire
Which Inca city remains an important urban center in Peru today? • Tenochtitlan • Machu Pichu • Bogota • Cuzco
Which class played a central role in the Aztec economy and was more highly respected there than in contemporary China? • Warrior • Aristocracy • Merchant • Artisan
What is the name of the family units into which Aztec society was organized and accounted for by the state bureaucracy? • Ayllu • Calpulli • Clans • Tribes
Which of the following best describes the region where the Inca civilization flourished? • Andean highland and Pacific Coast • Amazon basin and Valley of Mexico • Mississippi River basin and Andean highlands • Valley of Mexico and Andean Highlands
Which was the most densely populated region of the Americas by the end of the postclassical era? • Pacific northwest region of North America • Southern cone of South America • Amazon river basin of South America • Valley of Mexico in Mesoamerica
Which group was most likely to be literate in the period of European history often called the Dark Ages? • Aristocrats • Monks • Knights • Monarchs
Which of the following do historians most closely associate with the period of Western history known as the High Middle Ages? • Carolingian France • Enclosure movement and the rise of commercial agriculture • Gothic architecture, the Crusades, and the rise of the Western University • Frequent Viking incursions and raids along European coastlines and rivers
c. Gothic architecture, the Crusades, and the rise of the Western University
Which of the following regions of Western Europe remained most insulated from the general trend toward disorder following the fall of the Roman Empire? • France • England • Spain • Italy
What is the name of the conflict that consumed England and France in the late postclassical era? • Seven Years’ War • Hundred Years’ War • Thirty Years’ War • World War II
Which of the following possessed the greatest unified organizational capacity across the largest land area in Western Europe in the centuries immediately following the fall of the Roman Empire? • Islamic caliphates • Catholic church • Carolingian monarchy • Mongol Empire
Which practice dates from the Song era? • Foot binding • Concubinage • Divorce rights • One-child policy
Which of the following organizations grouped town dwellers by occupation, regulated apprenticeships, and upheld standards of workmanships? • Parliaments • Estates General • Guilds • Communes
By which route would medieval women have been most likely to find an alternative path in life outside of marriage? • Practicing witchcraft • Joining a crusade • Becoming a nun • Joining the preisthood
Which is not a native Chinese invention? • Explosive powder • Magnetic compass • Paper money • Steam-powered machinery
Where in the world did the literary form of the novel emerge? • United States • Japan • France • England
Which term do historians associate with medieval Western inquiry that sought to reconcile reason and religious faith and is most closely associated with the thinking of St. Thomas Aquinas? • Confucianism • Existentialism • Scholasticism • Eclecticism
Which is NOT an effect of the emergence of neo-Confucianism in the Tang-Song era? • Preference of Chinese ideas and practices over foreign ones • Growing egalitarianism in gender roles • Development of public works • Institution of a more rigorous education and examination system
Neo-Confucianism incorporated ideas from which of the following belief systems that had frown in popularity in China? • Hinduism • Buddhism • Daoism • Islam • I and II • II and III • III and IV • II, III, and IV
Which ideology gained influence in the period of disorder that followed the collapse of the Han dynasty? • Buddhism • Daoism • Mao Zedong Thought • Legalism
Which of the following statements best described the status of the Buddhist faith in China after the persecution of the Tang era? a. Chinese emperors continued to practice Buddhism. b. Buddhism disappeared completely from Chinese society. c. Presence of Buddhist monasteries and practice remained relatively unchanged. d. Buddhism continued to exist, but on a much reduced scale.