How did the Mongol empire allow a transfer of new ideas and inventions across Eurasia? What are two specific examples of such a transfer?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Results of the Mongol peace
1. Mongol peace policing of the routes that linked the extremities of Eurasia
a. ended Europe's relative isolation
b. stimulated trade and travel between Europe and China
2. most intense period ever in trans-Eurasian communications
a. European traditions were rechanneled
b. new technologies reached Europe
1. use of paper made written communication cheap, easy, and prolific
2. maritime technology
a. long-range trade and most long-range imperialism depended
b. compass
c. maritime charts
3. gunpowder and the blast furnace
3. Western science grew more empirical
a. more reliant on the reality of sense perceptions
b. more committed to the observation of nature
4. innovations in art
a. realism Western painting increasingly favored was a tribute to
the enhanced prestige of the senses
b. art linked the science and piety of the age
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A new leader for a Mongol band was chosen by
a. An election of the khuriltai. b. Religious rituals led by the shaman. c. Demonstrating the ability to vanquish all one's rivals. d. Being selected by the chief still in power. e. Wealth; the man who had the largest herd was proclaimed chief.
Which European country created a limited monarchy?
A) France B) Austria C) Prussia D) England
All of the following contributed to the problems experienced by the American confederation EXCEPT
A) a financial crisis caused by the dropping of the nation's credit rating and a lack of faith in the government's ability to pay its bills. B) the risk of losing its western lands because of a weak U.S. Army and threats of attacks by Indian tribes. C) the inability and unwillingness of state government to conduct judicial trials free of interference from groups of debtors who objected to state efforts to raise taxes or enforce debt repayments. D) the absence of capable citizens in the states to provide political leadership.
Great Britain is the homeland of "classical liberalism."
a. True b. False Indicate whether the statement is true or false