Midterm Review

Question 1

1. List three things accomplished by the Emperor Justinian.

Question 2

2. Which two of the three things listed above lasted up through the present time?

Question 3

3. Who invented the alphabet that is used in many of the Slavic languages?

Question 4

4. Who conquered the Byzantine Empire (group of people)?

Question 5

5. When did the Christian Church divide and what were the two divisions? Which religion did the Byzantine Empire choose?

Question 6

6. How do Muslims view Muhammad?

Question 7

7. What is shari’a?

Question 8

8. What is halal?

Question 9

9. Whom did Muslims consider to be “people of the Book”?

Question 10

10. What family emerged as leaders after the last “rightly guided” caliph was assassinated?

Question 11

11. What are the 2 divisions of Islam and which one believes that a relative of Muhammad should be caliph?

Question 12

12. Toward what city do Muslims pray?

Question 13

13. What is the Sunna?

Question 14

14. How were conquered people treated by the Muslim Empire?

Question 15

15. How did the Muslim Empire improve trade?

Question 16

16. List the five pillars of Islam.

Question 17

17. Why was there conflict in Islam after the death of Muhammad?

Question 18

18. Who united the Mongols?

Question 19

19. What was the Khanate of the Golden Horde?

Question 20

20. How did the Russians break free from the Mongols?

Question 21

21. How did the Mongols treat conquered people?

Question 22

22. What was the kamikaze and how did it help Japan?

Question 23

23. Why did Kublai Khan favor non-Chinese people for government positions in China?

Question 24

24. What was the Pax Mongolica and why is it important?

Question 25

25. Theodora

Question 26

26. icon

Question 27

27. Vladimir of Kiev

Question 28

28. Ivan III (the Great)

Question 29

29. Marco Polo

Question 30

30. Abbasids

Question 31

31. Al-Khwarizmis

Question 32

31. Ibn Sina (980-1037) –

Answer 32

Muslim scholar and physician – wrote the Qanan – a multivolume medical book which described diseases, treatments, surgery, and medicines. This book was later translated into Latin and was used throughout Europe well into the 1600’s. Ibn Sina’s discoveries influenced the development of the modern medical field.

Question 33

32. Cordoba

Question 34

33. Bagdad

Question 35

34. Mecca

Question 36

35. Constantinople

Question 37

35. Moscow