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Final Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| How did people adjust to life in the Arabian Desert? | moved from place to place, used camels, became herders |
| How did people adjust to life in the oasis environment? | settled, farmed, traded with traveling nomads |
| Who were people who move from place to place? | nomads |
| What are groups of people that are related to each other? | clans |
| Why was the Arabian Peninsula well situated for trade? | surrounded by bodies of water in between 3 Asia, Africa, Europe; unique resources |
| Who was Muhammad? | founder of Islam, conquered Mecca; took over Ka’aba |
| What is the Monotheism? | Belief in 1 god |
| Who is Allah? | the god of Islam |
| What are the 5 Pillars of Islam | statement of faith, prayer, charity, fasting, pilgrimage (the hajj) |
| How did Umayyad Dynasty unify its empire? | Arabic language, common money, the hajj pilgrimage |
| What advancements took place during the Golden Age of the Abbasid Dynasty? | arabic numbering system, paper making, calendar, books on math and medicine |
| What did the Abbasid Empire’s standing army do? | controlled the Abbasid empire in times of war and peace |
| What happened at the Battle of Tours in 732 CE? | Charles Martel and the Franks stopped Muslim Empire from expanding into rest of Western Europe |
| What made al Andulas and Cordoba the leading city of Europe during the Middle Ages? | Great Mosque of Cordoba, paved and lighted streets, libraries, scientific and medical advancements |
| What is the savannah? | grassland with scattered trees in West Africa |
| Why were rivers important to the survival of Africans? | irrigation, transportation, trade, communication |
| What was the major west African river? | the Niger River |
| How did Ghana kings of West Africa become wealthy? | by taxing trade |
| Why were people willing to trade salt for gold? | Gold was needed as currency in many empires salt was needed to preserve food; as part of diet |
| Why did Mali King Mansa Musa bring so much on his pilgrimage to Mecca? | to impress others; to establish trade; to encourage people to visit his capital, Timbuktu |
| What is the griot? | African storyteller who passes down oral history |
| What is the following:kinship to village to city to kingdom? | the development of an African Kingdom (urbanization) |
| What religion did the North African Berbers (traders) bring to West Africa? | Islam |
| How did Islam influence West African Culture during the Middle Ages? | Arabic first written language, 5 Pillars of Islam, Muslim Architecture |
| Mali capital that was a center of trade and learning where the “camel met the canoe”? | Timbuktu |
| Large desert in the Northern section of West Africa? | Sahara |
| What was traded during Kongo and Portugal alliance of the Middle Ages? | Kongo got guns, horses, and manufactured goods Portuguese got slaves |
| What did King Afonso of the Kongo Kingdom when the slave trade went out of hand? | Afonso cut off the slave trade, but later called on the Portuguese for help, which reopened it. |
| Country bordering China in the north that invaded China for its resources? | Mongolia |
| Why did China look to the sea to trade? | traveling west on land was too difficult |
| What type of people served in the bureaucracy? | scholars, aristocrats, foreigners |
| What is the civil service exam? | Test scholars had to take for government job |
| What were China’s Golden Age discoveries and advancements? | gunpowder, paper money, compass, clocks, movable type |
| Why did China begin to use paper money? | copper supply running out, paper supply unlimited, lighter to carry and trade |
| Why did the population of China grow rapidly during the Tang and Song Dynasties? | new faster growing rice and better farming technology |
| Why were the Mongols able to take over China? | nomadic people, could move quickly, excellent fighting and horse riding skills |
| Why did Mongol Ruler of China Kublai Khan appoint foreigners instead of Chinese to government jobs? | foreigners were more loyal and dependent on him |
| Ways the Ming Dynasty was powerful and successful? | Forbidden City, finished the Great Wall of China, Zheng He’s fleet |
| Name some causes for the decline and Fall of Roman Empire. | split into 2 parts, capital moved from Rome to Constantinople, bad emperors, Germanic tribes invaded |
| Name of leader and tribe that conquered Western Roman Empire in 486 and later converted to Christianity. | Clovis and the Franks |
| Name of Eastern part of the Roman Empire that remained 1,000 years longer than the Western part? | Byzantine Empire |
| Term for the split in Christianity over icons that formed the Roman Catholic and Orthodox groups? | schism |
| Spiritual and political leader of the Roman Catholic Church? | pope |
| Name the order of the Roman Catholic Church Pyramid. | 1st-pope, 2nd-cardinals, 3rd-bishops,4th-priests, 5th-monks and nuns |
| Why was the Roman Catholic Church so powerful? | had control over peoples’ faith, control over kings, center of culture and education |
| King of Franks that unified Western Europe by partnering with pope to create the Holy Roman Empire? | Charlemagne |
| People group from Scandinavia that terrorized Europe during the reign of Charlemagne? | Vikings |
| What was the order of the European Feudal pyramid? | 1st-King, 2nd-nobles/lords, 3rd-knights, 4th-peasants, serfs |
| Why did European armies fight in the Crusades despite ultimately not gaining land after 9 of them? | to take Jerusalem (Holy Land) from the Muslim Empires |
| What was the Black Death (the Plague)? | disease spread by rats and fleas through trade that killed half of Europe |
| What rebirth in art, learning, and advancement ended the Middle Ages and brought in the Modern Era? | The Renaissance |
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