Stats: AP World Quiz 1

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
was smaller in territory but very advanced, with new farming (Champa rice), money and markets, and big inventions like gunpowder, printing, and the compass.	Song	88%
a huge waterway built by the Sui Dynasty to connect northern and southern China. It made it easier to move grain, goods, and people, helping feed cities and armies	Grand Canal	75%
was a golden age with strong government, the civil service exams, expansion along the Silk Roads, and a mix of Buddhist and Confucian influence.	Tang	75%
reunited China and built the Grand Canal, which helped trade and farming but collapsed quickly from high taxes and wars.	Sui	69%
Moral and Ethical Basis of China and East Asia. It has five pillars that Include Ruler-Subject, Father-Son, and Brother-Brother. Ren (Benevolence and Humaness), Li (Ritual, propriety, and etiquette, and Xiao (Filial piety)	Confucianism	63%
A drought-resistant, quick-ripening Vietnamese strain adopted in Song China. It enabled multiple harvests, population growth, and urbanization.	Champa Rice	56%
An Indian religion that spread into East Asia via Silk Roads/monasteries. It reshaped art, philosophy, and monastic economies, and provoked state debates (Tang suppression, Song balancing). It’s central to cultural exchange and syncretism.	Buddhism	50%
Devotion to parents/ancestors; the family as a microcosm of the state. It structures inheritance, gender roles, and social order. Explain Continuity despite political change.	Filial Piety	50%
This practice signaled status, beauty, and female domesticity	Foot binding	50%
initially for fireworks; evolves into military use, diffused across Eurasia—reshapes warfare.	Gunpowder	44%
A merchant from Mecca (7th c.) who received revelations forming the Qur’an.	Muhammad	44%
leadership should remain with Ali’s line.	Shia	44%
Invention used for navigation and spiritual uses	Compass	38%
woodblock → movable type; spreads literacy, bureaucracy, and Buddhism/Neo-Confucian texts.	Printing	38%
accept caliphs chosen by the community	Sunni	38%
an ancient and complex astronomical instrument that functions as a physical model of the sky, allowing users to determine time, calculate the position of celestial bodies, and find latitude	Astrolabe	31%
This is the Confucian ideal—ethical, learned, self-disciplined—achieved through merit, not birth. It legitimized exams and the scholar-gentry.	Junzi/Meritocracy	31%
Song-era revival responding to Buddhism/Daoism. It keeps Confucian ethics but adds metaphysics (e.g., Zhu Xi), reinforcing family order, education, and state orthodoxy. It becomes the curriculum for exams across East Asia, shaping Korea/Japan/Vietnam.	Neo-Confucianism	31%
high-value export shaping global tastes and trade balances.	Porcelain	31%
Mystical Muslims emphasizing inner devotion, saints, lodges (khanqahs/zawiyas), and local languages/practices. Sufis were superb missionaries and community builders, easing conversion in India, Central Asia, and SE Asia through syncretic accommodation.	Sufis	31%
A Baghdad translation and research center under the Abbasids. Scholars rendered Greek, Persian, and Indian works into Arabic, advancing math, astronomy, medicine, geography. It symbolizes the circulation and creation of knowledge that later reached Europe.	House of Wisdom	25%
Chinese vessel that ruled the waves. Lots of crewmates and lots of masts. Biggest ships in the world.	Junk Ship	25%
Literate landholders who pass exams and serve the state. They embody cultural hegemony (they define “proper culture”), administer law and taxes, and often mediate local society. Their rise correlates with printing, education, and an urban economy.	Scholar Gentry	25%
Based in Baghdad; famed for translation, science, and commerce. A hub for scholars, merchants, and artisans with sophisticated finance. Its fragmentation (provincial dynasties, Seljuks) shows how decentralization can coexist with cultural unity.	Abbasid Caliphate	19%
This let people use a more efficient form of land transportation	Camel Saddle	19%
a triangular sail that lets you sail upwind	Lateen Sail	19%
Popular in China/Korea/Japan; emphasizes Bodhisattvas, compassion, and a wide path to salvation. Its adaptability (pilgrimage, lay devotion, Pure Land) eased integration with Confucian society.	Mahayana Buddhism	19%
Originally enslaved soldiers (often Turkic/Caucasian) trained as elite cavalry/administrators. Their rise shows how military slavery produced loyal, professional forces in Islamic states.	Mamluk	19%
A Chinese school stressing meditation (dhyāna), direct experience, and teacher–student lineages. It appealed to elites and warriors for its discipline and aesthetic, influencing art, poetry, and tea culture when transmitted to Japan as Zen.	Chan Buddhism	13%
Latin Christian holy wars to the Levant. Beyond warfare, they intensified Mediterranean trade, knowledge transfer (texts, tech), and cross-cultural contact/conflict. They’re a case study in religion-state interplay and network effects.	Crusades	13%
large-scale iron/steel output powers tools, weapons, and construction.	Metallurgy	13%
Invention that made easier access to trade	Paper Money	13%
Islamic legal framework drawn from Qur’an, Hadith, consensus (ijmā‘), and analogy (qiyās), articulated by law schools (madhhabs). It governed family, commerce, crime, ritual, providing predictable rules that supported interregional trade.	Sharia Law	13%
Focuses on the historical Buddha, monastic discipline, and personal enlightenment; dominant in Sri Lanka/SE Asia.	Theravada Buddhism	13%
Centered in Damascus, it spread Arabic, minted coins, built monumental architecture (e.g., Dome of the Rock), and expanded to al-Andalus. It standardized administration and roads, knitting early Islamic rule to existing infrastructures.	Umayyad Caliphate	13%
A mix of Chinese religion and Japanese spiritualism focuses on Kami and emphasizes religious blending	Zen/Shinto Buddhism	13%
Islamic Iberia (756–1031 caliphate; later taifas, then North African dynasties). Córdoba was a center for philosophy, medicine, architecture (Great Mosque), and translation that bridged Arabic learning to Latin Europe.	Al-Andalus	6%
astronomer/mathematician; observatories; refined models later used in Europe; advances in trigonometry.	Al Tusi	6%
flowing line design	Arabesques	6%
Cool writing patterns	calligraphy	6%
A merit-filtered admin staffed by exam-tested scholars in classics and law. It produced stable governance and a shared elite culture. It's a model of state-building through institutions rather than just personal loyalty.	Chinese Civil Service	6%
Emperor → bureaucrats/scholar-gentry → peasants → artisans → merchants	Chinese Social Structure	6%
The Mongols sacked Baghdad, ending Abbasid temporal power there; an Abbasid shadow caliphate survived under the Mamluks in Cairo. After 1258, Islamic power shifts to regional sultanates (Mamluks, Delhi Sultanate, later Ottomans). This marks political fragmentation but continued cultural and commercial unity across the umma.	Fall of Abbasid Caliphate	6%
philosopher-jurist; commentaries on Aristotle; argued for reason and revelation compatibility—hugely influential in Latin Europe.	Ibn Rushd	6%
It seized power in Cairo, stopped the Mongols (Ayn Jalut, 1260), protected holy cities, and profited from Red Sea trade. They maintained Islamic institutions and tax systems—key for trade continuity after the Abbasid fall.	Mamluk sultanate	6%
Expanded by conquest, trade diasporas, marriage, Sufi missions, and state patronage from Spain to India/SE Asia. Islam’s legal, commercial, and educational institutions made conversion socially/economically attractive, especially in cities.	Spread of Islam	6%
Networks: merchants and diasporas linking ports/caravan cities. State power: caliphates/sultanates patronizing law/Arabic. Sufism: local accommodation and community services. Social incentives: legal equality within the umma, tax relief (jizya avoidance), and access to patronage. Cultural prestige: literacy, law, and urban life. These factors made Islam portable, practical, and appealing.	Spread of Islam	6%
An 11th-century Japanese court novel (Murasaki Shikibu). It reveals Heian elite culture, literacy (including women’s), and aesthetics.	Tale of Genji	6%
The global community of Muslims bound by faith and law, transcending tribe and ethnicity. It enabled trust across distance, facilitating long-distance trade,	Ummah	6%
Islamic law granted property, inheritance, dowry (mahr), and contract rights to these people; they participated in education, commerce, and patronage (with regional variance). Social practice (e.g., veiling/seclusion in some urban elites) differed by time and place.	Women	6%
prolific Sufi poet (Damascus/Cairo), illustrating women’s learned participation and devotional literature.	al-Ba'uniyyah	0%
With Muhammad as a merchant, commerce held moral legitimacy. Profit was permitted within rules (ban on riba/usury; contracts, weights). States upheld markets via the hisbah (market inspection), minted dirhams/dinars, and maintained caravanserais—a legal-institutional pro-trade environment.	Islamic View on merchants and State	0%
Song-era household and workshop production (textiles, ceramics, metal goods) for markets, before factory industry. Backed by credit, paper money, and infrastructure.	Proto-Industrialization	0%
Pastoral nomads who adopted Islam, took Baghdad (1055) as protectors of the Abbasids, and defeated Byzantium at Manzikert (1071). They catalyzed Crusader responses and reshaped Anatolia’s demography and faith.	Seljuk Turks	0%

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