Chapter 11 Quiz C with References

. Commercial growth during this time period was rooted in _____.

. The collapse of the Roman Empire had little direct impact on the lives of people in the countryside.

. Rural people who were bound to the land they worked as well as to the will of their lord were called _____.

. The Islamic empire's trade with Asia brought _____.

. Rice agriculture is efficient and has a high yield, meaning that _____.

. People invested in inventing labor saving technology during this period because labor was cheap or free.

. The ability to sail against the wind was invented by _____ merchants.

. The monetary standard throughout the Mediterranean world was the _____.

. In the 12th century, the manufacture of _____ radically changed throughout Eurasia, moving into industrial workshops.

. The main driving force behind the invention of paper money was _____.

. Increased international trade caused the creation of new, more sophisticated forms of merchant organization, for example _____.

. The Indian Ocean trade was dominated by _____ merchants by the ninth century.

. The most important export driving the trans-Saharan trade was _____.

. In West Africa, blacksmiths were a closed caste, seen to hold secret knowledge and have magical powers.

. It took Northern Europe until the _____ century to re-develop a system of international trade.

. The Hawaiian islands had a complex system of market exchange by 1400.

. Ahupua'a tracts of land consisted of _____.

. In Hawaii, land ownership belonged to _____.

. Hawaiian society had a highly stratified system of social ranking.

. In Hawaiian society, a system of taboos served _____.

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