Unit 2

Question 0

What are the Five pillars of Islam?

Answer 0

Fasting, Pilgrimage, Faith, Prayer, Charity

Question 1

Who spread Islam and Arabic to other societies in Europe, Asia, and North Africa?

Answer 1

Muslim Merchants

Question 2

What modern day country and what region in African did Islam dominate?

Answer 2

Egypt

Question 3

List important consequences of the rise of the Islamic caliphates:

Answer 3

diffusion of Arabic, and Islam

Question 4

Define Eastern Orthodox Church:

Answer 4

A branch of christianity that developed.

Question 5

what is the Black Death? and how did it spread?

Answer 5

A plague that spread along the trade routes from Asia to Europe. It spread from fleas and rats.

Question 6

What factors resulted in the end of the middle ages in Europe? (hint there are 4 causes)

Answer 6

The great Schism, Hundred year war, crusades, and Black Death

Question 7

What were some political, economic, and cultural developments of the Tang and Song China?

Answer 7

Expansion of territory, paper, porcelain, and block printing

Question 8

What were some technological advancements of the Tang and Song Dynasties?

Answer 8

Grand canal, compass, and block printing

Question 9

what natural resource does the kingdom of Ghana trade?

Answer 9

salt&gold

Question 10

what kind of an impact did the Mongols have on the conquered territories?

Answer 10

positive impact- safety, new rules, and trade

negative impact- death and war

Question 11

true or false? individual rights increased as the English legal system developed?

Answer 11

true, the magna carte states that the king is not above the law.

Question 12

Constantinople was a major trading route between what two areas?

Answer 12

Eastern& western Europe to Asia

Question 13

what modern day empire dominated Peru and conquered by the Spanish?

Answer 13

Inca civilization

Question 14

what Mesoamerica civilization used the writing form called quipu?

Answer 14

Inca