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Midterm Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is the holy book and leader of religious services for Islam? | Quran is the holy book, and the leader of religious services is Imam |
| WHat do Muslims believe about Muhammad? | He was the last and greatest prophet |
| Explain one way in which Islam is similar to Judaism and Christianity. | They all teach the same ethical values, are monotheistic, and have the same basic founder |
| What is the key difference between then Sunni and the Shiites? | How their leader is chosen= Shiites - bloodline relative, Sunni - Any male religious Muslim from Muhammad's tribe |
| How can Muslim centers of learning best be described? | Places that made advances in medicine, literature, science, and math |
| The Muslim civilisation was most known for the development of what field of math? | Algebra |
| What are the holy days for the 3 religions we learned about? | Islam - Friday Judaism - Saturday Christianity - Sunday |
| Where are the customs and laws of Islam such as business practices and marriage found? | Sharia |
| What does Islam mean? | To submit to God |
| What is fasting from sunrise to sunset for a month called in the religion of Islam? | Ramadan |
| Which of the following was the body of civil law created for the Byzantine Empire? | Justinian's code of law |
| What city commanded key trade routes linking Europe and Asia, and was the capital of the Byzantine Empire? | Constantinople |
| What empire did the Abbasids rule? | The Muslim Empire |
| What title did Ivan III use? | Tsar, or Czar |
| What helped cause the decline of the Byzantine Empire? | When the Mongols and Turks took over Constantinople, the disruption of trade, and the Bubonic plague |
| As a result of Mongol rule over medieval Russia, Russian rulers continued the Mongol's use of what? | Absolute rule |
| The Seljuks converted to what religion? | Islam |
| What did the Turk's political and cultural preference for the persian cause? | It caused the Seljuks Empire to weaken and the Persian culture to grow |
| Which civilizations most influenced the development of Russia? | The Byzantine and the Mongols Empire's |
| What culture most influenced the Seljuk culture? | The Persian Empire |
| Why did the Age of Chivalry eventually decline? | New technology: long bow |
| Which developments did the most to end the Middle Ages? | The long bow, the Bubonic Plague, the Hundred Years War, and the Great Schism |
| What impact did the second agricultural revolution have on Medieval society? | It increased population because of food surplus |
| The most important effect of the Hundred Years' war was that it caused the development of what? | National Identities in England and France |
| What was the group of people most responsible for spreading the Bubonic Plague? | Traders |
| How was the Great Schism finally resolved? | All three popes were forced to resign, then one pope was finally selected |
| What was the central issue of the Hundred Years war? | The throne of France |
| What were the rights that the Magna Carta originally defended? | The English Nobility |
| What was the main effect of the Commercial Revolution? | More money was available for building businesses |
| What did the decisions of the English royal courts justice create? | English Common Law |
| What function did craft guilds not perform? | Borrow and loan money |
| How did the Battle of Hastings change the course of English history? | Normans took control of England |
| Who led the Norman conquest of England? | William the conquerer |
| Describe or define the nature of a guild. | An association of people who worked at the same occupation |
| What problems were identified by church reformers during the Middle Ages? | Village priests marrying, simony - bishops selling positions in the church, and lay investiture - kings appointing bishops |
| What was the main goal of the crusades? | To regain the holy land |
| What was the organized effort to drive Muslims from Spain called? | The Spanish Reconquista |
| Who had the authority to declare a squire a knight? | A knight |
| What was the main job of a squire? | To help the knight he is apprenticed to, and to learn how to become a knight |
| What was a page supposed to learn? | Manners, and fighting skills |
| What best describes the events after Charlemagne's death? | Left his kingdom to his son, but he wasn't a good leader, so he left it to his three sons, and they fought over the kingdom, resulting in the treaty of Verdun |
| Who was the leader who brought Christianity to the Franks? | Clovis |
| The feudal system was based on what? | A system of loyalties |
| Who was a knight supposed to fight bravely for? | His earthly lord, his heavenly lord, and his lady |
| Who was a serf? | A person who worked on a manor, and was at the bottom of the feudal system? |
| What was excommunication and interdict? | Excommunication was when a church banished a person from the church, and interdict was when a town was excommunicated because of the leader |
| What was the role of women? | Most were powerless, noblewomen had more power than peasant women |
| What were monasteries? | They were religious towns, built by the church, where monks and nuns lived, and copied religious texts |
| What was the most important contribution that Charlemagne gave to the empire? | He united Germanic tribes and the Western Roman Empire |
| In feudalism, what was a fief? | A granted piece of land |
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