Chapter 12 Quiz C with References

. The elite of Latin Christendom developed a unified culture primarily because of _____.

The Crusades.

Education.

Adherence to the Catholic Church.

Loyalty to hereditary monarchies.

. Schools across Europe were supervised by the Church and trained students everywhere in Latin.

True.

False.

. Medical schools developed primarily because _____.

Of a growing distrust in faith-based medicine.

Of rapid advances in medical science.

Of urban professionals who demanded trained physicians.

All of the above.

. A vernacular language is _____.

A Church language, like Latin.

b) The language spoken by the elite.

The language spoken by the common people.

A common tongue spoken by merchants across Europe.

. The ulama, religious teachers in the Islamic world, came from which group?

Those with government jobs.

Shopkeepers and merchants.

Keepers of mosques.

All of the above.

. Shari'a is _____.

The word of God.

The sayings of Muhammad.

Holy war.

Islamic law.

. The Sufi ethic of personal responsibility, tolerance, and sympathy toward human failings was appealing _____.

To the poor.

To the educated elite.

To all social classes.

Primarily to non-Muslims.

. Muslims were required to master the Qur'an in Arabic in order to fulfill their religious duty.

True.

False.

. Before 400 Sanskrit was already a cosmopolitan language, used for religious and political purposes across India and Southeast Asia.

True.

False.

. The impetus for Sanskrit to become a political language was _____.

The influence of the Brahman class.

Its adoption by rulers.

The demands of Chinese merchants.

The influence of Arab traders.

. From the tenth century onward, kings in Southeast Asia asserted their authority by _____.

Stressing their identification with a regional culture.

Stressing their universal sovereignty.

Stressing the parallels between themselves and the gods.

All of the above.

. The Delhi sultans cultivated close relationships with Sufi masters because _____.

It showed off their piety.

Sufism had a strong regional identity in India.

It helped strengthen the sultans' claims to universal rule.

It strengthened their control over Indian territories.

. Beginning with the Song Dynasty, Chinese political life and literary culture were dominated by _____.

Buddhism.

The civil service examination.

Hinduism.

Conflict with Sufism.

. The civil service examination was firmly rooted in _____ ideology.

Confucian.

Buddhist.

Hindu.

Jainist.

. It is like that the motivation behind the invention of printing in China was _____.

To spread the glory of the emperor.

To standardize manuals for new machinery.

To facilitate trade.

To reproduce religious texts.

. In Japan, Chinese was _____.

Almost unknown.

The language of the elite and learned.

The common language.

Only learned by merchants and traders.

. In Mesoamerica, like in Eurasia and Africa, writing served to make knowledge and success more accessible to everyone, rather than just the elite.

True.

False.

. Mesoamerican written languages took the form of symbols much like _____.

Egyptian.

Phoenician.

Sumerian.

Sanskrit.

. The majority of written texts from Mesoamerica are inscriptions on temples.

True.

False.

. Classic Maya became extinct precisely because knowledge of it was limited to a tiny elite.

True.

False.

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