Semester 1 Review

Question 1

What are the pillars of Islam?

Answer 1

1. Fasting (Ramadan)
2. Pilgimmage (aka Hajj)
3. Praying toward Mecca
4. Profession of faith (there is no god Allah but Mohammed is his phophet)
5. Alms (donations)

Question 2

What is a pastoralist?

Answer 2

A nomadic sheep or cattle farmer

Question 3

What is the Yam system

Answer 3

The Mongol Pony Express - a way of using horses to relay information quickly

Question 4

How did the Mongols affect the Black Death

Answer 4

They helped spread it because they are nomadic.

Question 5

What was the social order like for the Mongols

Answer 5

It was egalitarian

Question 6

What does egalitarian mean?

Answer 6

People in an egalitarian society have equal rights and opportunities.

Question 7

What is the triple alliance for the Aztec empire

Answer 7

Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan

Question 8

What are some ways that Islam spread throughout the world?

Answer 8

Conquest, Trade (Merchants), Missionaries, Pilgrimmage

Question 9

What are some of the ways Buddhism spread throughout the world?

Answer 9

Via the silk trade

Question 10

Who were Ferdinand and Isabella?

Answer 10

King and Queen of Spain

Question 11

Who was Ferdinand and Isabella’s most well-known employee?

Answer 11

Christoper Columbus

Question 12

Where is mesoamerica?

Answer 12

Mexico, Yucatan Penninsula, Central America

Question 13

What are the major mesoamerican empires in order?

Answer 13

The Olmec.
Teotihuacan. (Teyo-Tih-Hoo-Ah-Khan)
The Maya in the Classic period.
Aztec.

Question 14

How was Ghengis Khan different than other rulers?

Answer 14

he elevated common people and got rid of the rich. his society was egalitarian

Question 15

What are the 3 big geographic zones that are the focus of this class with the World History Project?

Answer 15

Afro-Eurasia, Meso-America, and Oceania.

Question 16

What are the main facts about the Inca empire?

Answer 16

1. Pachacuti was the 9th ruler of the Inca empire, he expanded it and made it more important.
2. The Inca called themselves the Tawantinsuyu.
3. The west coast of south America.
4. Their economy was based on agriculture, so they were farmers.

Question 17

What is an empire?

Answer 17

An empire is a complex political organization where a dominant central state controls weaker other states.

Question 18

What is the Mit’a system

Answer 18

Mandatory service to the Incan government

Question 19

How was the black death spread?

Answer 19

It was spread via trade, rats and fleas

Question 20

What is the Columbian exchange?

Answer 20

The process by which goods (tobacco, cacao, sugar), people, and diseases crossed the Atlantic

Question 21

What’s the importance of the English Wool Trade

Answer 21

in the 1300s wool was the biggest and most valuable and important export from England.

Question 22

Who was Zheng He and what did he accomplish?

Answer 22

Zheng He was an explorer, diplomat, and admiral during China’s early Ming dynasty.
He led the largest ships in the world on seven voyages around the Indian Ocean.

Question 23

Who was Mansa Musa and what did he accomplish?

Answer 23

Mansa Musa was the ninth Mansa of the Mali Empire.

Mansa Musa developed cities into important cultral centers.

Question 24

What technologies and advancements did the Aztec Empire have?

Answer 24

The Aztec Empire developed mathematics, the canoe, and helpful forms of medicine.

Question 25

How were Buddhism and Hinduism similar and different?

Answer 25

They are the same in the way
they both believed in the cycle of rebirth and accepted the law of Karma and Dharma.

They are different in that Buddhism rejects the priests of Hinduism, and they seek enlightenment through meditation

Question 26

What and where is the Indian subcontinent?

Answer 26

The Indian subcontinent is a physiographical region in Southern Asia.

Question 27

What does physiographic mean?

Answer 27

A popular segmentation technique in market research and marketing.

Question 28

How did the trade routes of the Indian Ocean function?

Answer 28

The east coast of Africa provided gold and sold slaves to be transported to other locations.

Question 29

What is Song Dynasty China most famous for and where was it distributed, and who were the creators?

Answer 29

1. Most famous for silk.
2. Distributed to other parts of Asia, Korea, Philippines, Vietnam, etc.
3. Women in households were the main users of silk.

Question 30

How did the people of the Americas interact with the European invaders?

Answer 30

They resisted the efforts of the Europeans to gain more of their land and control through both warfare and diplomacy.

Question 31

Where were the North American networks of exchange primarily located?

Answer 31

The Mississippi river basin.

Question 32

How were the people of Oceania able to travel and how were they organized?

Answer 32

The people who were courageous enough went overseas.

The people of Oceania were separated into 3 distinct classes, the Inner Party, the Outer Party, and the proles.