8/13/2019 Final_Exam World Hist I

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Name:_________________________________Course/Year____________Date:___________

I. Write the letter that corresponds to your answer, before each number for each of the followingitems. Two points each.

1. Traditional Chinese medicine for more than 2,000 years, where a set of four gold needleshas been recovered from the tomb of Prince Jing of Zhongshan, dated to the Western HAN

DYNASTY (206 B.C.E. –9 C.E.).(a. Shiatsu b. Zhen ci c. Diahatsu d. Sensei)

2. Afrasiab is the ancient name for Samarqand, once a province of Russian Turkestan and nowthe name of a city and province in Uzbekistan. ( a. True b. False)

3. The god of fire in early Indian religion, is mentioned in the Rig-Veda around 1500 to 1000B.C.E.(a. Agni b. Agnihotri c. Agnimitra)

4. Angkor is modern name given to a complex of cities, Hindu and Buddhist temples, andreservoirs located north of the GREAT LAKE (Tonle Sap) in northwest Cambodia. Thelargest temple is also called(a. Angkor Vat b. Angkor Borei c. Ankor Art d. Ankor Wat)

5. The coast of western Myanmar (Burma) occupies a key geographic position in the maritimeexchange route that developed during the early centuries C.E.

(a.   Apiyatana b. Aphisira c. Arakan d. Arthasasthra)6. The world’s largest and most impressive Buddhist temple. It is located on the island of Java,

in Indonesia, about 40 kilometers (24 miles) to the northwest of Jogjakarta, and was builtbetween approximately 780 –830 C.E.(a. Borobudor b. Bohu Tong c. Brahmi)

7. Buddhism originated in (a. China b. Thailand c. India d. Indonesia)8. The doctrine of righteousness, with implications for appropriate behavior for the followers of

the Buddha. It can also be a phenomenon or fate, such as conditions of growing old. Ingeneral Buddhist terms, it is best conceived of as the basic moral law of the universe.(a. Nirvana b. Dharma c. Shintu d. Marajika)

9. Ruled in an era of Chinese cultural consolidation, political experimentation, relative economicprosperity and maturity, and great technological advances. There was unprecedentedterritorial expansion and exploration initiated by struggles with non-Chinese peoples.(a. Han Dynasty b. Qin Dynasty c. Ming Dynasty d. Wang Dynasty)

10. Founder of Ming Dynasty, during which feudal system was in great decline following theflourishing of and capitalist market(a. Guang Di b. Xi Ping c. Zhu Yuanzhang d. Ming Xiaoling)

11. The founder of Qin Dynasty, the first Chinese dynasty,(a. Qin Shi Huang b.Qin Xi c. Hongwu Qin d. Wong Fei Hong)

12. Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan empire (Peru) and established a Spanishprovincial capital at Lima by 1533(a. Vasco de Gama b. Victor Hugo c. Francisco Pizarro d. Henry Gonzales)

13. Spanish conquistador  who conquered the Aztec empire (Mexico) by 1521 with a force of 400men, using iron weapons, an alliance with the Tlaxacans, and (according to de Montaigne)treachery.

(a. Vasco de Gama b. Hernan Cortes c. Francisco Pizarro d. Henry Gonzales)14. Treaty in 1494 that designated a line in the Atlantic Ocean to separate the Portuguese and

Spanish empires, and granted the Catholic Church exclusive control over religion in the newlands. It was extended to the Pacific in 1529 by the Treaty of Zaragoza.(a. Paris b. Tordesillas c. Madrid d. Andalucia)

15. German monk who questioned the leadership and theology of the Catholic Church in 1517.His questions provided the basis for the Protestant Reformation.(a. Frederrick b. Hohenzollern c. John Tetzel d. Martin Luther)

16. The values and beliefs of the new "middle class" of merchants, bureaucrats, and other citydwellers who were neither peasant, noble nor clergy.(a. Peasants b. Guilds c. Traders d. Bourgeois)

17. European name for the central Asian forces that made up the Mongol army that conqueredmost of Asia and parts of Europe in the 13th century

(a. Tartar b. Mongols c. Temujins d. Genghis)18. A system of education supported by the Medieval Catholic Church. It assumed that like

everything else, all knowledge came from God, so education consisted of reading everythingthat had ever been revealed.(a. Idealism b. Scholasticism c. Realism d. Humanism)

19. Trading city on the east coast of Italy at the north end of the Adriatic Sea. Venice becameone of the most powerful cities in medieval Europe, and controlled the largest European navyprior to the development of maritime empires.(a. Genoa b. Pavia c. Venice d. Rome)

20. Kingdom in central and northern Spain that was joined with Aragon by the marriage ofFerdinand and Isabella in 1469. Their union provided the basis for the Spanish monarchy.(a. Andalucia b. Castile c. Seville d. Valencia)

II. Essay: Should history be given weight in all academic studies? Why? 10 points. Observe yourgrammar. Write your answer at the back page in not more than five sentences.