unit test Jan 21

Question 1

what were the silk roads

Answer 1

routes that connect china to India and the middle east

Question 2

what were the west African (trans-saharan) trade routes

Answer 2

routes that connected Saharan Africa to the middleast and to the Mediterranean coast of africa

Question 3

what transportation was used on these routes

Answer 3

camel caravans

Question 4

what geographic fueterues impacted the west African trade routes

Answer 4

Sahara desert, savanna, forests

Question 5

what goods where traded on the west African trade routes

Answer 5

gold, salt,

Question 6

what was traded within Africa?

Answer 6

salt from the Sahara was traded to West Africa in exchange for gold

Question 7

what wealthy empires in west Africa formed as a result of the salt trade

Answer 7

GANA, mali, Songhai

Question 8

what impact did the west african trade routes have on culture

Answer 8

Muslim merchants settled south of the Saharan desert and spread Islamic faith.

Question 9

what was timbiktu

Answer 9

a historic city in mali, it became a very wealthy and known for being full of knowledge and scholars

Question 10

what was the byzantine empire

Answer 10

the continuation of the Roman empire after its fall,

Question 11

what was the capital (trade center of the byzantine empire)

Answer 11

constantinople

Question 12

where did the byzantine empire get its culture, laws and traditions from

Answer 12

Rome

Question 13

what culture was the byzantine empire

Answer 13

eastern Orthodox christianity

Question 14

what was the byzantines most famouse ruler

Answer 14

Justinian

Question 15

what was Justinian famouse for doing

Answer 15

building the haiga Sophia
justians code of laws

Question 16

where did justinians code of laws origin from

Answer 16

the Romans twelve tables

Question 17

what was the great schism and why did it happen

Answer 17

the division of Christianity into Roman catholicism in Rome and eastern Orthodox Christianity in byzantines, due to differences and disagreements

Question 18

what did the byzantines do to culture

Answer 18

took some of there culture from Rome and created there own, spread language religion and trade to Russia and eastern Europe

Question 19

what era was all of this

Answer 19

post classical era

Question 20

what are worshippers of Islam known as

Answer 20

muslims

Question 21

who founded Islam and where

Answer 21

prophet Muhammad, arabian penninsula

Question 22

what’s the signifigant writing in Islam religion

Answer 22

quran

Question 23

where do Islam’s worship

Answer 23

mosques

Question 24

what was the Islamic caliphate

Answer 24

an empire that formed after muhammades death,

Question 25

who was the caliph

Answer 25

the person that formed the Islamic caliphates, he replaced Muhammad after his death

Question 26

who was allah

Answer 26

the god of Islamic religion

Question 27

where was the Islamic caliphates located

Answer 27

middle east, north Africa, spain

Question 28

what was different about Islamic religion that made it so popular

Answer 28

racial equality, religious tolerance, highly equipped military and weapons

Question 29

what where the Islamic dynasty's that came after the Islamic caliphates

Answer 29

the ummayad dynasty the Abbasid dynasty

Question 30

what was the umyadd dynasty known for

Answer 30

conquering new lands and spreading islam

Question 31

what was the Abbasid dynasty known for

Answer 31

for having the golden age of the Islamic empire

Question 32

what was the capital of the Islamic caliphates

Answer 32

baghdad

Question 33

what was signifigant about baghdad

Answer 33

very diverse city, had advanced medicine, knowledge, poetry, algebra

Question 34

what post classical empire was known for advanced healthcare and medicine

Answer 34

the Islamic caliphates empire

Question 35

what is every Muslim expected to do

Answer 35

follow the five pillars of islam

Question 36

what are the five pillars of islam

Answer 36

. confession of faith . pray .give charity . fasting during ramadan .make a pilgrimage to mecca (Hajj)

Question 37

what are the laws of the Islamic caliphates called

Answer 37

shari'ah based on the quran

Question 38

what where the west African empires

Answer 38

Ghana and mali

Question 39

how did the empire Ghana become wealthy

Answer 39

through the gold and salt trade

Question 40

what religion was ghana

Answer 40

Islam, because it spread to Ghana through trade routes

Question 41

how did mali form

Answer 41

gold and salt trade

Question 42

what was mali known form

Answer 42

strongly based of islamic culture,

Question 43

what was a hajj

Answer 43

something every Muslim must do, a journey they must take to mecca to worship Allah

Question 44

what empire was timbiktu located in

Answer 44

mali

Question 45

what was timbuktu known for

Answer 45

a major center of Islamic scholarship, kingdom of wisdom and some of the smartest people

Question 46

where was the haiga Sophia located

Answer 46

byzantine mpire

Question 47

what was the haiga sophia

Answer 47

famouse place where all religions could come to worship

Question 48

what are the different part of this unit

Answer 48

Islamic caliphates, byzantine empire, west African citys

Question 49

who was ibn battuta

Answer 49

famous Muslim traveler who documented his travels

Question 50

what empire was known for medicine

Answer 50

Islamic caliphates

Question 51

what caliphate had a capital city of bahdad

Answer 51

the Abbasid

Question 52

what are the famouse Islamic caliphates

Answer 52

the abbasid caliphates the ummayad caliphate

Question 53

where were Islamic caliphates

Answer 53

all over Spain Africa and middleeast

Question 54

where were mali and ghana

Answer 54

west africa