<p>Thanks for reaffirming my beliefs Rak. Any other questions you can think of?</p>
<p>Do you remember what the trade answer was exactly, Nash?</p>
<p>Since both gold and trade were substantial reasons for Mali's power / wealth, if one of the other answer choices really said that than I think we should write a complaint.</p>
<p>Incidentally, did anyone else notice the grammar error (don't remember where, but early on the test in one of the answer choices)? They really should have better proofread it. ;)</p>
<p>Goldfish:</p>
<p>Sure. Greek geography was noteworthy because it created physical barriers in the country that increased political and cultural fragmentation (rise of the city-state).</p>
<p>Buddhism during the Han dynasty: there was no penetration of Buddhism during the Han dynasty.</p>
<p>What about the ancestor-worship question? I guessed heads of family, but I haven't been able to find a satisfactory answer.</p>
<p>Damn I really blew it...
I have at best 20-30 questions wrong</p>
<p>Yeah, I noticed the spelling error too. It was like philosophes or something like that. </p>
<p>Are you sure there was no penetration of Buddhism. On encarta it said Buddhism arrived from india and became an important religion, though I don't think it was made the state religion. </p>
<p>Do you remember what the full question for the answer-worship question was?</p>
<p>the Chinese combined Buddhism with ingeneous traditions</p>
<p>ah, ok. 8 wrong then.</p>
<p>other questions?</p>
<p>"Yeah, I noticed the spelling error too. It was like philosophes or something like that."</p>
<p>Philosophes is the correct spelling of that group of Enlightenment thinkers, actually. It was something involving the word "certain."</p>
<p>"the Chinese combined Buddhism with ingeneous traditions"</p>
<p>That's what I put on the test. However, the period specified was the Han period. It was immediately following the Han period (during the warring states period) that Buddhism became an important force in Chinese society. To quote from Encarta:</p>
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During this period of near-constant political and military strife, Buddhism found a receptive audience in China, while the influence of Confucianism waned.
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<p>Now, I don't remember if there was a choice saying that Buddhism was not influential in China during the Han period, but if there was (and I imagine there had to have been) then it would've been the correct answer.</p>
<p>"Do you remember what the full question for the answer-worship question was?"</p>
<p>It was asking who in Chinese society had a responsibility for maintaining contact with dead ancestors or something along those lines. I narrowed it down to Shamans and Heads of Families and then guessed the latter.</p>
<p>Are you sure it wasn't shamans?</p>
<p>I don't know, that's why I'm asking. I tried looking online and in a review book but could find no exact answers.</p>
<p>And one last question, on the agricultural one (#2), I put that agricultural allowed people to support larger populations. Is that the best answer of the 5 choices?</p>
<p>That's exactly right.</p>
<p>18th century philosophers = intellectuals sought social reforms?</p>
<p>I think thats what I put. Do you remember the other choices?</p>
<p>think another choice was outspoke supporters of democractic ideals</p>
<p>I was divided between social reforms and democratic ideals. I ended up putting democratic ideals because they wrote so much about politics and political theory, but you could definitely make a good case for both statements.</p>
<p>Yeah I couldnt make up my mind between those two choices. What made you choose the first one?</p>
<p>just as you guys, I was really divided. Then I turned to try to differentiate the phrases (that's I remembered the exact wording).</p>
<p>the reason I choosed social reforms was that I think 18 century phisophores was definitely more leaned toward intellectuals than outspoken supporters, which gave you a sense of political demagogues.</p>
<p>Rak, I think you were right now the ancestor-worship question.</p>