Deck 8: C: Commerce and Culture 500-1500

Question 1

How did Buddhism change as it spread along the Silk Roads?

A) Buddhist practices increasingly emphasized asceticism and withdrawal from society.
B) Buddhist doctrines became more esoteric.
C) The Buddha became more human and less divine.
D) The gods of many peoples along the Silk Roads were incorporated as bodhisattvas.

Answer 1

The gods of many peoples along the Silk Roads were incorporated as bodhisattvas.

Question 2

The Silk Roads built on earlier trading connections between Eurasian civilizations and

A) Bantu migrants.
B) Indian merchants.
C) pastoral peoples.
D) Paleolithic societies.

Answer 2

pastoral peoples.

Question 3

The Sahara held rich deposits of which highly valued commodity?

A) Salt
B) Gold
C) Oil
D) Nickel

Answer 3

Salt

Question 4

The states that emerged between 500 and 1600 that controlled the long-distance trade across the Sahara were concentrated in which part of Africa?

A) The Arabian Peninsula
B) Western and central Sudan
C) Madagascar
D) South Africa

Question 5

How did the Silk Road trade affect peasants in China?

A) Peasants focused more on producing luxury goods.
B) Peasants abandoned farming to go into commerce.
C) Peasants converted to Buddhism in large numbers.
D) Peasants only cultivated crops for subsistence.

Question 6

Which of the following technological innovations facilitated Indian Ocean commerce?

A) Quipus
B) Pochteca
C) Junks
D) Nyama

Question 7

Swahili civilization was influenced by which of the following cultures?

A) Chinese
B) Indian
C) Bantu
D) European

Question 8

The absence of which of the following made long-distance trade in the Americas difficult?

A) Wheeled vehicles
B) Llamas
C) Rivers
D) Organized governments

Question 9

Trade along the Silk Roads was facilitated by

A) the collapse of the Indian Ocean trade network,which benefitted land routes.
B) large and powerful states that provided security for merchants and travelers.
C) the migration of Bantu-speaking people into South Asia and the Middle East.
D) the emergence of powerful states in Southeast Asia that controlled the trade.

Question 10

In which third-wave civilization did the state largely control trade,preventing a professional merchant class from emerging?

A) China
B) Inca
C) Aztec
D) Mali

Question 11

The spread of the Black Death from China to Europe in the fourteenth century occurred during an era of increased contact facilitated by

A) monsoon winds.
B) the spread of Buddhism.
C) the spread of Islam.
D) Mongol rule.

Question 12

The trade conducted along the Silk Roads was largely a relay trade because

A) it linked the entire world into a single trade network.
B) it linked the civilizations of coastal Eurasia but bypassed the pastoral peoples of the interior.
C) goods were passed down the line rather than carried by one merchant along the entire route.
D) it sustained the long-distance trade in the Americas.

Question 13

Which of the following luxury goods came to symbolize the Eurasian exchange system?

A) Silk
B) Porcelain
C) Nutmeg
D) Slaves

Question 14

Which of the following states had the greatest control over economic exchange within its borders?

A) The Aztec Empire
B) The Byzantine Empire
C) The Roman Empire
D) The Inca Empire

Question 15

Between 500 and 1500,the civilizations of Mesoamerica and the Andes

A) ran similar regional economies controlled by the state.
B) created a long-distance trade network in the Americas.
C) fought with one another for control of the fur trade.
D) seem to have had little direct contact with each other.

Question 16

What was one characteristic of Indian cultural influence in Southeast Asia?

A) It resulted from the political conquest of the region by Emperor Ashoka.
B) It spread through the voluntary adoption and adaptation of Indian ideas.
C) It began with the travels of the Buddha to this region toward the end of his life.
D) It resulted in the region rejecting the influence of Islam.

Question 17

Which of the following was a consequence of the exchange of diseases along the Silk Roads?

A) The Christian church in the Byzantine Empire weakened.
B) Europeans developed some immunity to Eurasian diseases.
C) Chinese officials sought to suppress long-distance trade.
D) The population in the Americas was virtually wiped out.

Question 18

In contrast to the Silk Roads,the Sea Roads of the Indian Ocean

A) carried more products for a mass market.
B) had much higher transportation costs.
C) dealt exclusively in the trade of luxury goods.
D) were centered on the ports of East Africa.

Question 19

What development between the seventh and thirteenth centuries increased and expanded trade in the Indian Ocean basin?

A) The missionary zeal of Christian merchants who viewed religious conversion as their primary goal
B) The encouragement of maritime trade by an effective and unified Chinese state
C) Global warming trends that increased agricultural production worldwide
D) The discovery of a new route linking Asia to the Americas

Question 20

How did the spread of Islam affect Indian Ocean commerce?

A) Islamic religious leaders decreed that Muslim merchants could have no dealings with non-Muslim traders.
B) Early rulers of the Arab Empire promoted trade within the empire by banning trade beyond its borders.
C) Islamic rulers were suspicious of merchants and succeeded in shutting down all trade on the Silk Roads.
D) Muslim merchants and sailors established communities of traders from East Africa to the south China coast.

Question 21

Which of the following characterizes the networks of exchange in the Americas?

A) Networks were local,with the most active links within rather than between regions.
B) Networks crisscrossed cultures,creating a hybrid culture that encompassed all of the Americas.
C) The isthmus at Panama operated as the center for trade between North and South America.
D) The Incas controlled all long-distance trade and spread their culture from South to North America.

Question 22

Which of the following highlights an effect of the international trade in silk?

A) The declining price of silk by the tenth century as demand diminished
B) The association of silk with the sacred in Buddhism and Christianity
C) The widespread use of silk materials among commoners
D) The economic decline of China as competitors produced better quality silk

Question 23

The political structure of Swahili civilization was similar to the

A) large empires of ancient Rome and China.
B) stateless cities of the Niger River Valley.
C) complex societies of the Eastern Woodlands in North America.
D) competitive and independent city-states of ancient Greece.

Question 24

In the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries,Eurasia experienced a period of intensified interaction under the rule of the

A) Swahilis.
B) Berbers.
C) Mongols.
D) Chinese.

Question 25

Which of the following describes the Swahili civilization's relationship with the people who lived in the interior?

A) Swahili kings expanded into the interior,eventually establishing an empire that stretched from coast to coast.
B) Swahili states demanded that people living in the interior pay an annual tribute to gain access to the coastal trade.
C) Swahili cities operated as intermediaries for people from the interior to sell their goods to Arab merchants.
D) Swahili culture spread throughout most of the interior,as evidenced by widespread acceptance of Islam.

Question 26

Which of the following is an example of the Indianization of Southeast Asia?

A) The architectural expression of Hinduism at Angkor Wat
B) The use of Arabic script to write the Swahili language
C) A bronze African lion with Indian designs
D) The adoption of Islam as the state religion in Champa

Question 27

Which statement characterizes the networks and webs of exchange that connected different parts of the world from 500 to 1500?

A) Competition for control of trade routes sparked numerous wars.
B) Trade operated as a means of establishing diplomatic relations between states.
C) Regional trade organizations formed to establish monopolies on certain goods.
D) Interaction among the major civilizations operated on a relatively equal basis.

Question 28

The Sand Roads linked North Africa and the Mediterranean world to the land and peoples of

A) interior West Africa.
B) the Swahili civilization.
C) Borobudur.
D) Great Zimbabwe.

Question 29

Ships sailing along the trade routes shown in Map 7.2 in the textbook were dependent on

A) hinterlands.
B) oil.
C) monsoons.
D) slaves.

Question 30

What made possible the long trek across the Sahara?

A) Donkeys
B) Camels
C) Salt
D) Slaves