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Exam 13: D: The Worlds of the Fifteenth Century
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Question 1
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Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -Major Turkic empire of Persia founded in the early sixteenth century,notable for its efforts to convert its populace to Shia Islam.
Question 2
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Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -Major Islamic state centered in Anatolia that came to include the Balkans,the Near East,and much of North Africa.
Question 3
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Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -The continuance of gathering and hunting societies in substantial areas of the world despite millennia of agricultural advance.
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Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -The Western Hemisphere's largest imperial state in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries;built by a relatively small community of Quechua-speaking people,the empire stretched some 2,500 miles along the Andes Mountains,which run nearly the entire length of the west coast of South America,and contained perhaps 10 million subjects.
Question 5
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Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -People whose lands were east of the Niger River in what is now southern Nigeria in West Africa;they built a complex society that rejected kingship and centralized statehood and relied on other institutions to provide social coherence.
Question 6
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Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -The capital and almost the only outpost left of the Byzantine Empire that fell to the army of the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II "the Conqueror," an event that marked the end of Christian Byzantium.
Question 7
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Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -Group of Native American peoples who inhabited present-day New York State and who spoke a language of the same name.They became agricultural about 1300 and lived in villages.Increased conflict among the peoples led to the establishment of a confederation around the fifteenth century among five of the subgroups within this group: the Mohawk,Oneida,Onondaga,Cayuga,and Seneca.
Question 8
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Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -West Africa's largest pastoral society;its members gradually adopted Islam and took on a religious leadership role that led to the creation of a number of new states.
Question 9
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Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -Major Islamic state of West Africa that formed in the second half of the fifteenth century.
Question 10
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Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -A "rebirth" of classical learning that is most often associated with the cultural blossoming of Italy in the period 1350-1500 and that included not just a rediscovery of Greek learning but also major developments in art,as well as growing secularism in society.
Question 11
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Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -Dynasty (1368-1644) that succeeded the Yuan dynasty of the Mongols;noted for its return to traditional ways and restoration of the land after the destructiveness of the Mongols.
Question 12
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Select the word or phrase that best matches the definition or example. -Turkic warrior (1336-1405) ,also known as Tamerlane,whose efforts to restore the Mongol Empire devastated much of Persia,Russia,and India.