Chapter 12 Quiz A with Explanations

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. In an effort to expand education during the ninth century, European bishops began to establish

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. Why did the Cistercians come into conflict with cathedral schools after the eleventh century?

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. European intellectuals gained access to valuable Greek and Muslim philosophical, scientific, and medical texts in the twelfth century from

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. Which thirteenth century theologian wrote the Summa Theologica as a way to bridge the gap between Christian theology and Greek philosophy?

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. Which language became the language of the court and upper-class society in England after the eleventh-century Norman Conquest?

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. How were the ulama (religious scholars) in the Islamic world different from Christian clergy in Western Europe?

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. Which school of Islamic law became popular among the inhabitants of Baghdad under Seljuk rule?

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. What served as a unifying force for the Islamic world after the decline of the Abbasid Empire?

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. What was the dominant mode of transmission of knowledge in the madrasa system?

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. What happened to Islamic literary culture during the decline of the Abbasid caliphate?

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. What language was commonly used in cosmopolitan culture in South and Southeast Asia by the sixth century?

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. What was one way in which Southeast Asian rulers expressed their growing power between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries?

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. Which Muslim state emerged to rule over most of India by the fourteenth century?

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. What group helped lessen the Muslim-Hindu divide in India?

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. In general, how did the rulers of the Delhi Sultanate treat their Hindu subjects?

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. Under which Chinese dynasty did the civil service exam become the key to entry into the bureaucracy?

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. The opening of private academies in China was inspired by the teachings of the twelfth-century Neo-Confucian scholar

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Education in the Koryo and Yi dynasties was limited to

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. What encouraged the spread of reading and writing in Eurasia and Africa after the first millennium B.C.E.?

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. How did Mayan rulers utilize the written word in their states?

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