AP World History Review

3. the practice of having more than one wife at the same time.
5. the belief that elements of the physical world could have supernatural powers.
9. A vast organization in which appointed officials carried out the empires policies.
10. occurred 618-907, extended china's boundaries north into Mongolia, west into Central Asia, and south into Vietnam.
12. extended throughout the eastern half of the Mediterranean world. The reign of Justinian the Great (527-565).

1. a syncretic system combining rational thought with the more abstract ideas of Daoism and Buddhism.
2. was divided into two distinct entities, became the capital of the west.
4. developed in Persia, followers of this faith focus on human free will and the eternal battle between the forces of good and evil.
6. goods and ideas flowed along these land routes in Eurasia and maritime routes in the Mediterranean and Indian ocean.
7. culturally, Japans official religion, beliefs centered on the veneration of ancestors and natures spirit.
8. skilled craft workers.
11. focused on how people could live in harmony with nature.