1. Unit 3 Review

2. What did Muhammad receive in 610 CE?
The revelations from the angel Gabriel

3. What is the correct chronological order of the West African Islamic kingdoms?
Ghana, Mali, Songhay

4. What are the two main sects of Islam?
Sunni and Shi’a

5. What sort a relationship was created in European feudalism between lord and vassal?
Reciprocal relationship

6. He united the Mongols
Genghis Khan

7. Place the social groups that were part of the European feudal system in the proper order from the bottom to the top.
Peasant, Knight, Nobel, King

8. This dynasty came to power after they defeated the Chen during the 3 Kingdoms Period.
Sui

9. Who was King Lalibella?
Ruler of Ethiopia

10. This group of Muslims believe that the caliph should be selected from the umma or community.
Sunni

11. Who was crowned emperor in 800 CE?
Charlemagne

12. What are the five pillars of Islam?
Faith, Prayer, Fasting, Alms, Pilgrimage

13. What is the holy text of Islam?
Qur’an

14. What event marks the first date in the Islamic calendar?
Hijra (622)

15. What was the manor?
The house that a lord lived in and the center of the Manorial system

16. Who is the political and religious leader of Islam?
Caliph

17. Who was most likely to be literate during the middle ages in Europe?
Monks/ upper class

18. What was Ali’s relationship to Muhammad?
His son in law

19. Over a 200 year period beginning in 1095 the Islamic world was invaded by who?
European Crusaders

20. Why were there no significant trade routes between northern Africa and southern Africa during the Middle Ages?
The jungle was too dense to allow for large number of travelers.

21. What was a fief?
A land granted to a lesser noble

22. What clan replaced the Umayyad as the dominant Islamic clan?
Abbasid

23. What are the three Chinese dynasties of the Middle Ages.
Sui, Tang, Song

24. Why is the Battle of Tours in 732 significant?
Charles Martel stopped the spread of Islam into northern Europe.

25. What as the most common form of the plague?
The Bubonic Plague

26. What effect did the plague have on the feudal system?
It caused the system to decline

27. North and West Africa became more connected to the outside world due to trade along which trade network.
Trans-Saharan Trade Network

28. Who established the Yuan dynasty?
Kublai Khan

29. What groups of people did Islam appeal to once it arrived in India?
Low-caste Hindus and Buddhist

30. This sect of Islam believes the caliph should be a direct descendent of Muhammad.
Shi’a

31. What was the term for non-Muslims specifically Hindus and Buddhist?
Dhimmi

32. What happened to the Mongol empire after Genghis Khan’s death?
Spilt into 4 Khanates

33. What was a dhow?
A new type of ship

34. In 1066 who decided he was going to invade England?
William the Conqueror

35. How do we know that Mansa Musa was a practicing Muslim?
He made the hajj

36. How was Islam spread to North Africa?
Through Merchants and traders

37. What secular functions did the church and monasteries serve during the Middle Ages?
Education, Shelter, Large Estates

38. What was the main religion in Ethiopia?
Christianity

39. What group in Africa migrated south and are responsible for a language group that persists to this day?
Bantu

40. Muslims viewed ____________ as a process in the conversion of pagans to Islam.
Slavery

41. Which of the three West African kingdoms was able to thrive due to its trading cities of Timbuktu and Jenne?
Mali

42. What social class was more likely to convert to Islam in West Africa?
The elite

43. Name two of the trading ports along the Swahili Coast
Mogadishu, Kilwa, Malindi, Pate, Zanzibar, Mombasa, Madagascar

44. What government concept was established in England by the Magna Carta in 1215?
Limited Government

45. What trade network was the Swahili Coast apart of?
Indian Ocean Trade Network

46. What took place between 1000 and 1492 on the Iberian Peninsula?
The Reconquista of Spain for the Islamic Moors

47. What was the economic component of feudalism that came to dominate Europe during the middle ages?
Manorialism

48. What is a vassal?
A person that is subordinate or holds allegiance to a noble

49. What was the major impact of the three- field system?
Increased food supplies which increased population

50. Who established the Yuan Dyansty?
Kublai Khan