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Ap Chapter 7

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Earliest long-distance traders in the Sogdiana area
ferghanese
General Chang Joan 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
Turkish nomads were noted to live in what form of dwelling
portable felt huts
Sassanid empire was centered in the area that is present day
Iran
What did the Sasanid and Byzantine empires have in common
central control of imperial finances
Establishment of Zoroastrianism and Christianity as official faiths set the prevent for
The rise of Islam as the focus of an empire
Religious conflicts in the Byzantine empire resulted in treatment of Nestorian Christians as
heretics, seeking refuge under the sasanid shah
Manichaeism is a faith derived from Zoroastrianism and is founded on the idea that
There is a cosmic struggle between good and evil
The Arabs' involvement in Byzantine and Sasanid conflicts led to
The penetration of Christian knowledge in to the Arabian peninsula
Most subjects of both Byzantine and Sasanid rulers found common identity in
religion
The mariners involved in the Indian ocean trade were
A multilingual and multiethnic group
The Indian Ocean maritime system forged economic and social ties between
East Africa, Arabia, India, China, and Southeast Asia
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 day from shore
A significant difference between ships of the Indian Ocean and those of the Mediterranean was
all of these
The early inhabitants of the easy African island of Madagascar came from
The islands of Southeast Asia
Transplants foods carries by seafarers to Africa include
Yams and babanas
Why was maritime trade better in Southeast Asia than in Western Asia
Ports had better
access to fresh water and could sustain a permanent settlement
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 consisted of
A vast number of rock paintings and engravings
Saharan horse breeders were
We don't know
Which animal was most important to Saharan transportation
Camels
What natural resource provided the incentive to trade for southern Saharan dwellers
Palm oil
Most convincing evidence indicates that camels were introduces to the Sahara from
Arabia
Sahel literally means
the coast
The importance of trans-Saharan trade was that it
connected North and South Asia
The savannah region of Africa was characterized by
long grasses and scattered forests
Africa is home to
2000 languages
Most important African network of cultural exchange can be described as
mainly internal folk migrations within subsaharan africa
Which does not constitute a shared cultural heritage or ''great traditions"
political unity
which is not an example of a broad common element underlying African life and culture
a common language
Populations moved into the sahel because of
climate change
Pan african cultural patterns may have been shaped by
environmental changes that inspired southern migration
the development of metallurgy in africa involved
iron
most sub-zaharan languages come from
bantu
An example that demonstrated the transfer of practices between civilizations was
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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
buddhism
what facilitated the spread of christianity to armenia
the invention of an armenian alphabet
the head of the ethiopian christian church is
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