whap chapter 12

Which of the following was a feature of the communities in Australia in the fifteenth century?

The practice of "firestick farming"

In the fifteenth century, what did the Igbo people in West Africa have in common with the Iroquois League in North America?

Institutions for resolving conflict in the absence of a state

What was the largest pastoral society in West Africa in the fifteenth century

The Fulbe

Why did the maritime expeditions of the Indian Ocean basin sponsored by the Ming emperor suddenly stop in 1433?

The emperor's successors viewed expansion as a waste of resources.

In its efforts to recover from the disruption of Mongol rule, where did the Ming dynasty look for inspiration?

The culture of past Chinese dynasties

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 a Shia version of Islam made the official religion in the sixteenth century?

Safavid Empire

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 wealth of Africa and Asia

Which of the following is true of the Mughal Empire?

it established unified control over most of the Indian peninsula

What feature did the Mughal Empire and Songhay Empire share?

The rulers were Muslim, but the majority of the population was not

The wars carried out by the Aztec Empire were linked to

the practice of Human sacrifice

What did the Inca Empire do that the Aztec Empire did not do?

Build a bureaucracy to integrate and control its subjects

What could women do in both the Aztec and Inca Empires?

Exercise political authority

Which of the following pairs of societies shared a common religion

Songhay and Ottoman

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

in the fifteenth century, the gathering and hunting way of life associated with the Paleolithic era persisted in

Australia

Refer to Map 12.1 in the textbook. The empire that encompassed Persia and Afghanistan in the fifteenth century marked

The last military conquest by nomadic people from Central Asia

What was a principle underlying the Great Law of Peace of the Iroquois League?

Limited Government

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

China

Which of the following was a value emphasized in the Renaissance

Individualism

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 empire ended the Byzantine Empire and came the closest to conquering Europe?

Ottoman Empire

The ruler of the Songhay Empire made the pilgrimage to Mecca and asked to be given which title?

caliph of the Land of the Blacks

How was Islam introduced into Southeast Asia and West Africa?

By traveling merchants

In what way were the Aztec and Inca empires similar?

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

What did the Aztec Empire require conquered people to do

Pay Tribute

In the fifteenth century, long-distance trade shifted to

East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean

Which city emerged as a major Muslim port city in the Indian Ocean basin in the fifteenth Century

Malacca

Which of the following was a web of connection that linked many of the peoples in the world of the fifteenth century?

Empire

What contributed to the decline of inter-island exchanges in Pacific Polynesia by 1500?

The Little Ice Age