Ways of the World: Chapter 12

which city emerged as a major muslim port city in the indian ocean basin in the fifteenth century?

Malacca

In what way were the aztec and inca empires similar?

both started out as marginalized peoples who conquered and absorbed older cultures

In which century did european peoples begin to take on a more prominent role on the global stage?

fifteenth century

The wars carried out by the Aztec Empire were linked to...

the practice of human sacrifice

which of the following reflected the fragmented and competitive political environment in europe in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries?

the hundred years' war between england and france

in which empire was shia a version of islam made the official religion in the sixteenth century?

safavid empire

what did the inca empire do that the aztec empire did not do?

build an elaborate bureaucracy to integrate and control its subjects

after the fifteenth century, how did the chinese state resolve the problem created by a growing population and land scarcity?

more intensive use of available land

which of the following was the most centralized, unified, and prosperous of the world's major civilizations in the fifteenth century?

china

in its effort to recover from the disruption of mongol rule ,where did the ming dynasty look for inspiration?

the culture of past chinese dynasties

why did the maritime expeditions of indian ocean basin sponsored by the ming emperor suddenly stop in 1433?

the emperor's successors viewed expansion as a waste of resources

what did the aztec empire require conquered people to do?

pay tribute

which of the following is true of the mughal empire?

it established unified control over most of the indian peninsula

how was islam introduced into southeast asia and west africa?

by traveling merchants

which empire ended the byzantine empire and came the closest to conquering europe?

ottoman empire

which of the following pairs of societies shared a common religion?

the songhay empire and the ottoman empire

the inca and aztec empires practiced similar gender-based systems in which women and men operated in two separate but equivalent spheres, a system that scholars call

gender parallelism

what feature did the mughal empire and songhay empire share?

the rulers were muslim, but the majority of the population was not

which of the following was a motivation for european expansion but not for chinese expansion in the fifteenth century?

to gain direct access to the goods and wealth of the indian ocean basin

what could women do in both the aztec and inca empires?

exercise political authority