1. Accelerated World History November 11-12, 2015

2. Warm Up – November 11-12, 2015

3. Agenda Reminders:

4. What does Islam mean in Arabic? “Submission to the will of Allah”

5. What do Muslims believe about Muhammad? He was the last and greatest of the prophets.

6. What division of Islam believes that only a relative of Muhammad is qualified to be a caliph? Shi’a (or Shi’ite)

7. Toward what city do Muslims pray? Mecca

8. What are the Five Pillars of Islam? The major duties required of all Muslims

9. Where were significant conquests made between 632 and 661? Asia & Africa

10. By what year had Islam extended south of the Equator? 1200 AD (CE)

11. What city was in lands under Muslim control at the time of the death of Muhammad? Mecca

12. In which faith(s) are spiritual leaders required to remain unmarried? Catholicism

13. Which faith(s) make no efforts to convert nonbelievers? Judaism

14. How do Muslims lead a moral life? Through submission to God’s will

15. Who did Muslims consider the "people of the book"? Jews and Christians

16. What did the Sufis do? They led a life of poverty and devotion.

17. The Qur'an and what other work form the shari'a, or body of Islamic law? The Sunna

18. What are push-pull factors? Reasons for migration

19. Which famous city in Egypt is likely to have the lowest yearly precipitation? Cairo

20. Where are the areas that are generally the wettest located? Along the Equator

21. What reason is believed to have prompted the Bantu migrations? Needed more land for a growing population

22. What is the main belief of followers of animism? Spirits play an important role in regulating daily life.

23. What is one result of the migrations of the Bantu- speaking peoples? There are 60 million African people who speak one of the Bantu languages.

24. Who was Mali's first great leader? Sundiata

25. How did the rulers of Ghana grow rich? By taxing the goods traders carried through their territory.

26. What does it mean if an African society is matrilineal? Ancestry is traced to the mother.

27. What is one way Sundiata helped the Mali Empire grow powerful and wealthy? Promoted agriculture, re-established the gold- salt trade.

28. How did Islam spread throughout Africa? It spread by conquest and through trade.

29. What region is known as Mesoamerica? the area that stretches south from central Mexico to northern Honduras

30. Which crop was most important to the survival of the early Americans? maize

31. How did the first people to arrive in the Americas support themselves? hunting and gathering

32. Which of the following used hieroglyphs? Maya

33. What type of sacrifice did the Aztecs practice? They practiced human sacrifice for religious offerings.

34. Which Mesoamerican group had a social welfare state that cared for all their people? Inca

35. Tikal was the name of an important Maya what? city

36. Glyphs were used for what? the Maya writing system.

37. Aztecs worked to establish loyalty among conquered peoples. True or false? True.

38. Tenochtitlán is a famous Aztec… city.

39. Quetzalcoatl is a what? a war god.

40. Pachacuti stands out in Inca history as the: ruler who expanded the kingdom into an empire.

41. In Incan tradition, the ayllu was: the small-group structure used for community work projects.

42. In the Incan Empire, mita was a type of: labor tribute.

43. The decline of the Incan Empire can be traced to a struggle between rivals for the Inca throne.. True/False? True.