Characterize the cultural, political, and religious diffusion from India to neighboring lands like Burma. - answer-
How was Islam's arrival in India affected by trade? - answer-
How did Northern India differ from southern India during the postclassical era? - answer-Northern India was loosely...
MEDIEVAL AFRO-EURASIAN EMPIRES APWH
Characterize the cultural, political, and religious diffusion from India to neighboring lands like Burma. -
answer-
How was Islam's arrival in India affected by trade? - answer-
How did Northern India differ from southern India during the postclassical era? - answer-Northern India
was loosely controlled with strong Islamic authority while southern India had regionalized districts and
Hindu authority.
How were people impacted by adapting agriculture to a monsoon environment? - answer-The people lit
fires in jungles, also known as Swidden, which increased irrigation tactics and defined an urban density.
What contributed to India's developing into an "emporia" and clearinghouse for the Indian Ocean Trade
Network? - answer-Similar to Amazon, India was a middleman for travel, a rest stop, allowing for
business transaction within the kingdom.
How did the Viking, or Norse, expand out of their Scandinavian homelands beginning in the late eighth
century? - answer-The Vikings were masters of open water and inland river navigation and were also
capable of long distance sailing with shipbuilding skills.
Why did the Vikings expand out of Scandinavia beginning ca. 790 C.E.? - answer-Too much invading left
to foreign people leaving, dying out, or retaliating, so vikings had to venture out to establish better trade
networks and reestablish healthy relationships.
What were the motivations for the Norse explorations? - answer-Raids for wealth and plundering,
searches for access to existing trade networks, and migrations seeking new territories for settlement
were the strongest motivations for Viking exploration.
How did the Norse invaders differ from those of other cultures in eighth century western Europe? -
answer-The Norse ability to navigate through both open waters and inland rivers with well built ships
gave them a leg up from other cultures.
Why was it easy for Vikings and other invaders to attack the Frankish realm in the late eighth century
C.E.? - answer-A decline in Frankish authority.
Why did Justinian create his Civil Code? - answer-To maintain continuity (similar to Roman Empire),
which reflected medieval social standing and thus restored order.
Although Justinian's Code was based heavily on Roman law, how was it a reflection of societal
developments? - answer-Because the world had changed from the Roman era, Justinian compiled
Roman influenced ideas with a medieval twist on them that reflected the activities and concerns of his
era.
What political challenges were faced by Justinian and the Byzantine Empire? - answer-Justinian's main
obstacles and political challenges were the post-germanic invasions.
, Describe the main legacy of the development of the Justinian Code. - answer-Left as European civil code
seen as a justice legacy.
What were Justinian's main accomplishments? - answer-The construction of the Hagia Sophia, a
generalized codification of law, and his Cyrillic writings.
Explain the main reason for changes in the combined populations of western Europe and the Byzantine
Empire from ca. 200- 1000 C.E. - answer-Increased political stability and the introduction of new food
crops from Muslim lands.
What political system gradually replaced the Roman empire in western Europe? - answer-Germanic
kingdoms based on systems of raiding, pillaging, and overwhelming the European population.
Explain resettlement during the early postclassical era in Europe. - answer-
How did the economy of western Europe compare with that of the Byzantine Empire? - answer-
Why was expansion of Islam into Spain effective? - answer-The transformation of tribal loyalties into an
alliance to Islam.
How did Islamic armies effectively acquire wealth- or the spoils of war in Europe? - answer-Most
successfully through the establishment of base camps and raiding purposes.
What were the Arab conquerors' policy toward conquered people? - answer-They were religiously and
ethnically accepting, however established Jizya, special head taxes, that had to be paid in refusal to
religiously convert.
Why did the Islamic conquering dynasty decline by the mid eighth century? - answer-The decline was
most directly connected to growing discontent among populations of conquered peoples.
Why did relations between Christian religious groups ca. 1054 C.E. change? - answer-The split of the
Christian church into the Roman Catholic church caused a major shift in perspective for some followers-
compare to Shi'ite and Sunni.
Describe the social organization among the Mongols prior to the establishment of the Mongol empire
under Chinggis Khan ca. 1206 C.E. - answer-The Mongol social order was defined through 2 classes:
nobles and commoners. Clan and tribal loyalties were strong. Commoners were capable of moving into
the nobility if they displayed exceptional guile or courage in warfare.
Why was there a significant increase in trans- Eurasian trade through Central Asia ca. 1300 C.E.? -
answer-
How did the evolution of the religious beliefs of Turkish tribes in central and southwest Asia and India
ca. 1000- 1300 C.E. impact the conversion of Turkic peoples? - answer-
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