Chapter 14 Student Quiz - World in the Making Volume 1 Student Resources

. A pandemic is _____.

The same as an epidemic.

A disease that is widespread, but not particularly deadly.

An epidemic that spreads over a large geographical area.

A manmade disease.

. The death toll of the Black Death was incredibly high throughout western Eurasia because the population there had no immunity to the disease.

True.

False.

. Unlike the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming based their rule on _____.

The dominance of Mongol culture.

The goal of a worldwide empire.

Populist rule.

Chinese culture.

. Sufism spread to new territories because _____.

Of its focus on military conquest.

Of its ability to assimilate into local cultures.

Of the conservative form of shari'a that it favored.

Of its focus on material wealth.

. In West Africa, Islam existed side by side with ancestral beliefs in nature spirits.

True.

False.

. The most dynamic international trade in the 14th and 15th centuries occurred in the _____.

Mediterranean Sea.

Atlantic Ocean.

Pacific Ocean.

Indian Ocean.

. The expansion of India's textile industries was driven by demand for luxury, specialty fabrics.

True.

False.

. The motivation behind the first voyages of Zheng He was _____.

To assert Chinese authority over maritime trade in Southeast Asia.

To bring back treasure.

To discover the Americas.

To colonize Europe.

. The main factor that kept Japan from being influenced by developments in Chinese society, as other East Asian countries were, was _____.

Their conquest by the Mongols.

The dominance of Confucian ideals in Japan.

The militarization of Japanese culture.

A series of peasant uprisings that installed a Populist national government in Japan.

. Under the Ashikaga shogunate, an increased focus on Japanese culture over Chinese included _____.

Fashions drawn from court nobility.

Japanese poetry.

No theater.

All of the above.