Chapter 14 Quiz C with References

. 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.

. One of the factors that gave settled societies an edge over nomadic ones in the 14th century was _____.

Technology that expanded overland trade

The spread of gunpowder weapons.

The ravages of the Black Death.

All of the above.

. 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.

. The population loss due to the Black Death caused a shift in Europe to a social order based on _____.

Private property and entrepreneurship.

Nobility and serfdom.

Shared ownership of all resources.

Equality before the law.

. 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.

. The advance of Islam in Africa and Asia came about through _____.

Diffusion by merchants and missionaries.

A new wave of conquest.

The conversion of Mongol leaders to Islam.

Divine intervention.

. 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.

. The heart of the Ottoman army, the janissary corps, were made up of _____.

The sons of the nobility.

Nomadic warriors.

Only the most religious soldiers.

Christian conscripts.

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

True.

False.

. Among Muslims in Southeast Asia, women _____.

Were forced to don the veil.

Were treated as property for the first time.

Maintained active participation in public life.

Lost many of their rights.

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

Mediterranean Sea.

Atlantic Ocean.

Pacific Ocean.

Indian Ocean.

. Indian fabrics came to dominate Eurasian markets because of technological innovations that made them both more available and more desirable.

True.

False.

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

True.

False.

. China's main export by the 14th century was _____.

Silk.

Pepper.

Porcelain.

Rice.

. 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 rise of the samurai was accompanied by the increasing independence of Japanese peasant communities.

True.

False.

. 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.

. The political strength of medieval Japanese peasants came from _____.

Improvements in the agrarian economy.

Improved transportation.

The weakness of the samurai culture.

The influence of Confucian thought.

. 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.

. The dominance of the samurai class did not cause women to lose freedoms or the rights they traditionally held.

True.

False.

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