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Chapter 7 Test

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The earliest long-distance traders in the Sogdiana area were the ____
Ferghanese
General Zhang Jian is credited with introducing which of the following to China?
Alfalfa and wine grapes
Critical to the functioning of the Silk Road were ___________
pastoralists who provided animals, handlers and protection along the road
what military technologies did the Silk ROad spread?
chariot warfare, mounted bowmen, and the stirrup
the mariners involved in the Indian Ocean trade were ________
a multilingual and multiethnic group
ships in the Indian Ocean Maritime System were better prepared for long-distance travel than the Greeks because ________
they could take advantage of monsoon winds to drive their ships
one difference between Indian Ocean and Mediterranean seafaring was that ___________
Mediterranean seamen rarely sailed far from shore
significant differences between ships of the Indian Ocean and those of the Mediterranean were _______
triangular lanteen sails
bitumen calk of boat bottoms
rare use of oars
pierced planks tied together
the early inhabitants of the East African island of Madagascar came from __________
the islands of SEA
transplanted foods carried by seafarers to Africa include ______
yams and bananas
family life in the Indian Ocean coastal areas was considered more cosmopolitan because ____
blended families were bicultural and bilingual
the best primary evidence of early Saharan history consists of _______
a vast number of rock paintings and engravings
which animal was most important to Saharan transportation?
camels
what natural resource provided the incentive to trade for southern Saharan dwellers?
salt
the agricultural area bordering the Sahara Desert is called the Sahel, which in Arabic means _____
the coast
the importance of trans-Saharan trade was that it ______
connected North and South Africa
the savannah region of Africa was characterized by ______
long grasses and scattered forests
the most important African network of cultural exchange can be described as ___
mainly internal folk migrations within sub-Saharan Africa
which of the following does not constitute a shared cultural heritage, or "great tradition"?
political unity
a written language
ethical codes
intellectual traditions
common legal and belief systems
political unity
according to a theory for explaining cultural unity in the sub-Saharan areas, populations moved into the Sahel because of ________
climate change
one of the greatest promoters of Buddhism was _______
King Ashoka of India
Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam all spread _______
without dependency on a single ethnic or kinship group
the Silk Road and Indian Ocean trade fostered the spread of which religion?
Buddhism
what facilitated the spread of Christianity to Armenia?
the invention of an Armenian alphabet
the head of the Ethiopian Christian church is ________
the patriarch of Alexandria
the most convincing evidence indicates that camels were introduced to the Sahara from _______
Arabia
Africa is the home to approximately how many languages, emphasizing its diversity?
2,000
the development of metallurgy in Africa involved _______
iron
an example used in the text that demonstrated the transfer of practices between civilizations was ________
use of dye-cast coins
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