Ch 18 example #74347

On what Daoist principle is the Forbidden City's grid within a grid based?

Prior to the arrival of the Portuguese, who were the Africans' slaves?

What Italian mosaic technique did the Moguls use to decorate the Taj Mahal and Shah Jahan's palace?

What must the Noh drama's main character resolve before his or her soul can find peace?

What did the tea ceremony allow the Japanese merchant class to do?

Why did the Benin equate their sacred mudfish with the Portuguese?

For what did the Inca use gold and silver?

How did the Spanish plan to raise the native populations from "barbarous" conditions?

Why did Chan Buddhism appeal to the twelfth- and thirteenth-century Japanese daimyo?

Why beginning in 1587 did Japan become closed to the rest of the world?

Why did the Ming Chinese avoid cultural syncretism?

Why is Zhu Di's palace complex known as the Forbidden City?

What had the Aztecs done that caused other native tribes to resent them and thus be willing to help Cortes in his conquest?

What group influenced the growing interest in portraiture in Islamic India?

What did the eighteenth-century Spanish-American casta paintings depict?