Ancient and Medieval World History
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Course Introduction
This course offers a comprehensive survey of world history from the earliest civilizations through the end of the Middle Ages. Students will explore major political, social, economic, and cultural developments in regions including Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, Greece, Rome, and Medieval Europe. Key topics include the rise and fall of empires, the spread of religions and philosophies, technological and artistic innovations, and patterns of global interaction and exchange. Emphasis is placed on understanding how ancient and medieval societies shaped the modern world, fostering critical thinking about continuity and change across time and cultures.
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World History Volume I To 1800 7th Edition by William J. Duiker
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Chapter 1: Early Humans and the First Civilizations
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Q1) The annual flooding of the Nile River
A) enabled Egyptian civilization to thrive by leaving deposits of fertile silt.
B) was an unwanted event that occurred suddenly and generally without warning.
C) did not require an organized irrigation system.
D) produced many large urban centers that served as havens from the raging waters.
E) inhibited the evolution of civilization in ancient Egypt.
Answer: A
Q2) Homo sapiens
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q3) Judaism can be defined or described as a religion of
A) amoral monotheism.
B) ethical monotheism.
C) ethical polytheism.
D) amoral polytheism.
E) monotheistic relativism.
Answer: B
Q4) "Sea Peoples"
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Chapter 2: Ancient India
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Q1) The Mahabharata
A) describes the peaceful relations between Aryan cousins.
B) primarily details the activities of Hindu rulers.
C) provides an elaborate discussion of the ethics of the dharma.
D) contains Krishna's sermon in which he advocates the value of success or failure as the paramount objective in all activities.
E) sharply attacks belief in the dharma as being irrational.
Answer: C
Q2) Chandragupta Maurya
A) may have been a member of the army of Alexander the Great. B) feared assassination and had a secret police.
C) was the last major Mauryan ruler.
D) worshiped the god Mithras.
E) abolished Buddhism in India.
Answer: B
Q3) Mauryan Empire
Answer: Answer not provided.
Q4) dharma
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 3: China in Antiquity
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Q1) Most of the currently standing Great Wall of China,and which is the most photographed,was
A) built by Qin Shi Huangdi.
B) built during the Ming dynasty.
C) the solitary South Chinese construction project built to keep out nomadic invaders.
D) thirty thousand kilometers long and ten meters high.
E) built to keep rabbits and wild yaks from destroying crops.
Answer: B
Q2) Which of these ancient civilizations survived,intact,until the twentieth century?
A) Egyptian.
B) Aztec.
C) Hittite.
D) Chinese.
E) Aryan.
Answer: D
Q3) Legalism
Answer: Answer not provided.
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Chapter 4: The Civilization of the Greeks
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Q1) battle of Chaeronea
Q2) Plato's ideal forms
Q3) Epicurus
Q4) Sparta was located in
A) the Attica Peninsula.
B) the Peloponnesus.
C) Boeotia.
D) Macedonia.
E) the Strait of Corinth.
Q5) Thera
Q6) Under Pericles,
A) Sparta dominated the Greek world.
B) Thucydides developed the first comedy.
C) Athenian democracy became less democratic.
D) the Delian League was used to expand Athenian imperialism.
E) Athens conquered Sparta.
Q7) Peloponnesus
Q8) Athens
Q9) Alexandria
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Q1) Iron casting and paper
Q2) Senate
Q3) The "good news" concerning Jesus was contained in the written A) gospels.
B) Old Testament.
C) Sermon on the Mount.
D) Dead Sea scrolls.
E) Analects of John the Baptist.
Q4) Compare Han China with the Roman Empire.What are the similarities and what are the differences between the two empires?
Q5) paterfamilias
Q6) Which of the following were among the Jewish population of Judea?
A) Latians
B) Essenes
C) Mithraists
D) Kuomintang
E) Zanj
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Q7) Critically examine the various theories advanced to explain the fall of the Roman Empire.Which do you believe to be most convincing,and why?
Chapter 6: The Americas
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Q1) El Niño
Q2) Pachakuti/Pachacutec
Q3) Most of the Aztec population belonged to large kinship groups called A) texcocos.
B) chinampas.
C) calpulli.
D) quipu.
E) jatis.
Q4) Olmec
Q5) Itzamna
Q6) Mexica
Q7) Apache and Navajo
Q8) Which of the following was true about Teotihuacán?
A) It did not engage in trade because of its infertile lands.
B) It produced great industrial structures.
C) It met its demise due to unexplained reasons.
D) It was conquered by the Maya.
E) It left no historical records.
Q9) Lake Texcoco
Q10) Mayan Long Count Page 9
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Chapter 7: Ferment in the Middle East: The Rise of Islam
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Q1) What role did the expansion of the Seljuk Turks play in the origins of the Crusades? How would you characterize the behavior of the European Crusaders as they entered Jerusalem?
Q2) The capital of the Umayyad caliphate was Baghdad.
A)True
B)False
Q3) The poet who wrote the Rubaiyat was
A) al-Mutanabbi.
B) Omar Khayyam.
C) Rudaki.
D) Sadi.
E) Tarafah.
Q4) Charles Martel
Q5) Mu'awiya and Umayyad Caliphate and Damascus
Q6) Ibn Rushd/Averroës and Ibn Sina/Avicenna
Q7) How did the social structure and religious ideas of the Islamic world compare and contrast with those of India after the Aryan invasion?
Q8) "fleets of the desert"
Q10) Almoravids and the battle of Badajoz Page 11
Q9) Abu al-Abbas and the Abbasid Caliphate and Baghdad
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Chapter 8: Early Civilizations in Africa
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Q1) Zagwe churches
Q2) The king of Mali who went on a famous pilgrimage to Mecca in the fourteenth century was Mansa Musa.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Khoisan
Q4) the Periplus
Q5) Bantu
Q6) Social practices typical in many African societies included
A) election of kings by all adult males.
B) a lineage system that was often matrilineal rather than patrilineal.
C) behavior patterns between the sexes that were more relaxed than those found in societies in other parts of the world.
D) both a lineage system that was often matrilineal rather than patrilineal and behavior patterns between the sexes that were more relaxed than those found in other societies.
E) none of these
Q7) Describe African societies in terms of urban life,family relationships,and the parts played by women and the institution of slavery in their social fabrics.
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Chapter 9: The Expansion of Civilization in South and Southeast Asia
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Q1) Because of impenetrable jungles and dangerous seas and oceans,travel between the islands and regions of Southeast Asia was extremely difficult.
A)True
B)False
Q2) According to the text,the penetration of the islands of the Pacific was one of the greatest maritime feats of human history.Using outside sources,discuss the extent of this migration and the manner in which it was accomplished.Focus on the continuity of Malayo-Polynesian culture in the course of this migration
Q3) Which of the following is not true about the caves of Ajanta?
A) They served only as shrines that were nothing more than holes in the cliffs.
B) They contain elaborate wall paintings relating to Buddha and his incarnations.
C) They are great sources of historical knowledge of fifth-century India.
D) They are examples of some of India's greatest artistic achievements.
E) Most of them were carved in an eighteen-year period.
Q4) Kanishka
Q5) Mamallapuram
Q6) Samarkand
Q7) Chola and Pallava
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Chapter 10: The Flowering of Traditional China
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Q1) The main purpose for the development of Neo-Confucianism was to A) deal with the issues of the universe that had been introduced into China by Buddhism and Daoism and which were able to fit into the original Confucian value system. B) counteract the appeal of Islamic ideas.
C) turn the Chinese people away from Buddhism, Daoism and Christianity. D) fortify the believer's responsibility to withdraw rather than participate. E) act as a buffer against Muslim missionaries.
Q2) Neo-Confucianism/the "investigation of things" and Zhu Xi
Q3) The Turkish-speaking tribal group that ultimately overthrew the Tang were the A) Mongols.
B) Magyars.
C) Uighurs.
D) Jurchens.
E) Kirghiz.
Q4) Compare and contrast the status of women in Tang and Song China with the status of women in two other societies of your choice.What are the similarities and what are the differences,and why?
Q5) blast furnace and steel,gunpowder,paper currency,and the abacus
Q6) Grand Canal
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Chapter 11: The East Asian Rimlands: Early Japan, korea, and Vietnam
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Q1) Ashikaga era
Q2) Korea
A) was more influenced by Chinese ideas and practices than any other East Asian society.
B) did not develop a full governmental structure until the Yuan Dynasty imposed one in the thirteenth century.
C) has a warm, humid climate, never experiencing sub-freezing temperatures.
D) during the Koryo Dynasty, curbed the power of the nobility, permanently establishing a centralized administrative structure..
E) had almost no contact with Japan until the nineteenth century.
Q3) The four Japanese islands are
A) Honshu, Luzon, Hainan, and Guam.
B) Kyushu, Taiwan, Ryuku, and Kamchatka.
C) Shikoku, Kyushu, Hokkaido, and Honshu.
D) Okinawa, Tinian, Ryuku, and Diego Garcia.
E) Olane, Hokkaido, Sakhalin, and Shikoku.
Q4) Yi Song-gye
Q5) bakufu
Q6) genin and eta
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Chapter 12: The Making of Europe
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Q1) Magna Carta
Q2) The reason so many European place-names end in borough,burgh,burg,or bourg was:
A) most of them were established by the powerful Boringian family.
B) the term means "cross-roads," a common place to build a city.
C) the names refer to the fortified centers around which cities and towns were built.
D) boros was an early name for a trade guild.
E) a boroman was a ferry-man who insured safe passage across a river. Most towns with such names were founded around river crossings.
Q3) In what ways were the Crusades similar in nature and effect to the Islamic concept of jihad? What were the most significant causes and results of the Crusades? Consider religious,economic,and social factors in your analysis.Were the Crusades,on balance,a major mistake? Why or why not?
Q4) Participants in the Third Crusade included all of the following except
A) Richard the Lionhearted.
B) Belisarius.
C) Saladin.
D) Frederick Barbarosa.
E) Philip II Augustus.
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Chapter 13: The Byzantine Empire and Crisis and Recovery in the West
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Q1) "little ice age"
Q2) The Great Schism
A) resulted in the capture of Jerusalem by Saladin.
B) saw two different individuals claiming to be the true pope.
C) was the result of the investiture controversy between Gregory VII and Henry IV.
D) led to the Hundred Years' War between England and France.
E) led to the sacking of Constantinople by crusaders from the West.
Q3) Justinian's most lasting accomplishment was
A) his victory over the Ostrogoths.
B) his defeat of the Muslim armies outside Constantinople.
C) the Corpus Iuris Civilis.
D) his victory over the Nika rioters.
E) the construction of Notre Dame.
Q4) As a result of the Black Death,
A) peasants were worse off.
B) social unrest increased.
C) social unrest decreased.
D) the Roman Church gained power and authority.
E) citizen-ruled republics replaced divine-right monarchies in much of Europe.
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Chapter 14: New Encounters: The Creation of a World Market
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Q1) Songhai
Q2) The Dutch and Portuguese
A) worked together in Southeast Asia to counter the strength of the French and the Danes.
B) tried to induce the inhabitants of areas under their control to accept Islam, and thus make them easier to control.
C) played no part in European trade with Africa.
D) jointly administered Brazil until after 1750.
E) were bitter trade rivals in Southeast Asia until the Dutch won out.
Q3) Hernán Cortés
Q4) Alfonso I
Q5) What geographical advantages did Western Europe have in its encounters with the non-Western world in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries? How did the Portuguese lead the way in exploration? What role did Prince Henry the Navigator play? How did imported eastern ideas and innovations spur the Portuguese advance?
Q6) John Cabot
Q7) manioc
Q8) Leo Africanus
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Chapter 15: Europe Transformed: Reform and State Building
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Q1) the Puritans,Oliver Cromwell,and the New Model Army
Q2) the Spanish Armada
Q3) After the Council of Trent,the Catholic Church had a clear body of doctrine under the supremacy of the pope.
A)True
B)False
Q4) An important reason why Henry VIII broke with the Roman church was because A) he became a Lutheran.
B) he wanted to develop a distinct English Christianity for nationalistic reasons.
C) the Archbishop of Canterbury had a direct confrontation with the Patriarch of Constantinople.
D) he could not get Rome's permission to divorce his wife, Catherine of Aragon.
E) his dislike of women caused him to become an Anglican priest.
Q5) The legacy Louis XIV left to France was
A) control, finally, over the foreign trade of the Netherlands.
B) a hugely expanded territorial domain.
C) a nation that was financially destitute and surrounded by enemies.
D) the friendship of the rest of Europe.
E) an entrenched and powerful nobility
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Chapter 16: The Muslim Empires
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Q1) sultan
Q2) Indian painting
A) was drab and unimaginative during the Mughal period.
B) made significant progress after the introduction of paper to Indian society in the 1400s.
C) blended Turkic, Nepalese and Indian styles.
D) disappeared under Mughal rule because of Islamic prohibitions against any art. E) was based upon Western models.
Q3) Aurangzeb
A) issued orders to prohibit sati and the castration of eunuchs.
B) ended the zamindar system and created an efficient tax revenue.
C) ended the forced conversions to Islam.
D) expanded the tolerant religious policies of his predecessor.
E) abdicated in favor of his son, Babur.
Q4) Janissaries were Hindu rajputs who were converted to Islam by the Ottoman.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Babur
Q6) Serbs
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Chapter 17: The East Asian World
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Q1) Manchus/Jurchen
Q2) The primary fighting force of Qing China was the
A) Persian and Uzbek janissary corps.
B) dyarchy.
C) green standard.
D) bannermen.
E) queues.
Q3) Lord Macartney convinced Emperor Qianlong to open Chinese ports to British trade.
A)True
B)False
Q4) the "Forbidden City"
Q5) What were the most significant developments of the reigns of Kangxi,Yongzheng,and Qianlong?
Q6) Gia Long and the Nguyen dynasty
Q7) Zhu Yuanzhang
Q8) The activities of Western Christian missionaries reached their height of influence during Kangxi's reign.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 18: The West on the Eve of a New World Order
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Q1) Outside Europe,the major scenes of battle in the Seven Years' War were
A) North America and Africa.
B) Central America and India.
C) India and North America.
D) Latin America and Africa.
E) North America and Latin America.
Q2) What was the relationship of the Enlightenment to the Scientific Revolution? Could the Enlightenment have occurred with the Scientific Revolution?
Q3) The new United States Constitution of 1787
A) employed Montesquieu's conception of the separation of powers.
B) was rejected by most Americans until it was finally passed on a third referendum. C) was created by delegates who, like the nation's population, were mainly small farmers.
D) was soon abolished and replaced by the Articles of Confederation.
E) abolished slavery.
Q4) In your opinion,was the American Revolution or the French Revolution most "revolutionary"? Why? Be specific.
Q5) Toussaint L'Ouverture
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