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Ch 11

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What is the goal of every Tibetan Mahayana Buddhist before crossing into paradise?
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To help others reach enlightenment
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Why did West African poets compose praise poems?
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To gain influence over the poem's subject
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Why did early Buddhists believe portraying Buddha in art was impossible?
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He had passed to nirvana
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Why is a dancing Shiva commonly portrayed within a circle of fire?
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To represent the mystical state dancing creates
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Why did the Benin build the massive earthwork walls and moats around their capital city?
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As protection from raiding elephants
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What do the Yoruba people believe their king links?
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The gods and ancestral heroes
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After the Han dynasty fell in 220 CE, why did the Chinese reject Confucianism for Buddhism?
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They blamed Confucianism for civil and cultural dysfunction
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What fundamental tool of civilization did the Classic Era Mesoamerican cultures lack?
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The wheel
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Why did Song painters value landscape above other subjects?
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It embodied the principle behind all things
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What does the moat surrounding the Hindu temple Angkor Wat represent?
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The oceans
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Why did the Incas build the remote Machu Picchu, high in the Andes?
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As a royal retreat for a ruler
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Why did the court scholar-painters retreat from public life during the Yuan Dynasty?
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They were unwilling to serve under the Mongols
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What development enabled the Chinese to build suspension bridges and pagodas?
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Iron- and steel-casting
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What did bamboo in the exiled scholar-painters' art symbolize?
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Chinese peoples' ability to bend and not break
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What regional samurai clan overthrew the Heians and began the Kamakura Period?
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Minamoto