Contemporary World Civilizations

Yanıt Açıklaması: Since the beginning of the 21st century, manga (comic book) has gained global renown to such an extent that its name is now surfacing in various discourses far beyond Japanese shores.

Yanıt Açıklaması: In 1054, the quarrel gained so much intensity that a great Schism took place. Christianity was divided between the Roman Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox Church.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Western civilization is divided into four groups;1. Western-West Civilization, 2. Western-Central Civilization, 3. Western-Latin Civilization,4. Western-Jewish Civilization.

Yanıt Açıklaması: German sociologist Max Weber see that the Jews were organized firstly as tribal confederacy of peasants, and then become hegemonic leaders in Canaan and finally prepared a holy book, The Bible, foundational work for Western Civilization.

Yanıt Açıklaması: African civilization embodies uniting  sociological, historical, anthropological and ethno-linguistic characteristics in its own right.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The Buddha initially maintained that there were three truths about life in this world: sickness, old age, and death. One of them sickness, choice C is the correct answer.

Yanıt Açıklaması: In 641 CE, Islam reached North Africa when Alexandria fell under the mighty arm of Islamic warriors.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The European Coal and Steel Community drew together the chief continental Western consumers and producers of coal and steel, the two materials most essential for the rebuilding of Western European civilization. This organization followed by the similar ones became the launching pad for the European Union.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Buddhism is spread throughout East Asia. It affected every country including China and Indonesia, the two largest in population. Currently, Buddhism is the most extensive religious element in Sri Lanka (Ceylon); Myanmar (Burma); Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Tibet, South Korea, and Mongolia. However, 90% of Hindus live in India .

Yanıt Açıklaması: The idea given in the statement above is reflected in all of the items given.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The ascent of Christianity was marked by many significant events, such as the Crusades, Inquisition, Schism and Reformation, not Renaissance.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The interior of Africa was shrouded behind thick forests and jungles, making it not so easy for outside contact with Europe. For this reason, Africa was often referred to as the “Dark Continent,” indicating the ignorance of Europeans regarding Africa.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The classical period of Hinduism begins by 400 BCE and ends about 500 CE and is characterized by two great literary epics: the Mahabharata and the Ramayana.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The Aryans from Central Eurasia, interspersed their beliefs with those of their predecessors. From the Aryans came the custom of associating gods with natural elements as well as a hierarchy of gods; this is reminiscent of other Aryan deities worshipped in Greece, Rome, and Persia.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Unlike Buddhism in other lands, it has a head who is also a political head, Dalai Lama. He has been in exile since 1959, since the arrival of Han Chinese and the direct annexation of half of Tibet by China. Because of the previous political system, this religious practice is sometimes called Lamaism.

Yanıt Açıklaması: A French diplomat, Jean Monnet, and Józef Retinger, a Polish émigré-diplomat and founder of the Bilderberg Group in 1954, a club of very influential active and former politicians, inspired the formation of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951. In 1973 the original six were joined by Great Britain, Ireland, and Denmark. These nine lands now began calling themselves the European Community.

Yanıt Açıklaması: the Communist Party

Yanıt Açıklaması: The region above tropical Africa is the Savanah; it is the connecting bridge between the northern and southern regions of the continent.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Japan

Yanıt Açıklaması: The march of civilization, inspired by Islam, was gaining a new revolutionary momentum for African civilization. And this civilization was to bring new ways of governance, and newer society called as the Ummah.