Summer Assignment Exam Flashcards
Which part of Asia in Iraq located?
West Asia
What Historical Reasoning Process is being referenced in the following statement: Looking at the political systems in western Europe and China during the time period 1000—1300, Western Europe developed multiple monarchies, while China maintained a single empire.
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1) Cause
2) Effect
3) Change
4) Continuity
5) Similarity
6) Difference
6) Difference
What Historical Reasoning Process is being referenced in the following statement: Renaissance Italy (mid-1400s-1600) and the Islamic Middle East after the decline of the ‘Abbasid Empire in the mid-tenth century were both characterized by political fragmentation and cultural creativity
Answer:
1) Cause
2) Effect
3) Change
4) Continuity
5) Similarity
6) Difference
Similarity
Why? Because they BOTH were characterized by political fragmentation and cultural creativity
What Historical Reasoning Process is being referenced in the following statement: Inca and Aztec societies in the Americas both acquired empires by means of military conquest.
Answer:
1) Cause
2) Effect
3) Change
4) Continuity
5) Similarity
6) Difference
Similarity
Why? Because it says they BOTH acquired empires by means of military conquest.
What Historical Reasoning Process is being referenced in the following statement: Great Zimbabwe, which produced iron and copper wire, gold beads, bracelets, and pendants, is viewed by historians as the result of the spread of Bantu-speaking peoples migrating into southern Africa before 1400 C.E. with their agricultural and metallurgical knowledge.
Answer:
1) Cause
2) Effect
3) Change
4) Continuity
5) Similarity
6) Difference
Effect
Why? Because it states that it was viewed by historians as a RESULT of the spread of the Bantu people
What Historical Reasoning Process is being referenced in the following statement: The availability of safe and reliable transport along land-based trade routes in Central Asia (as a result of security provided by the Mongol Khanates) and the increase in trade are viewed as primary factors to explain the rise of urban centers in Afro-Eurasia during the second half of the thirteenth century
Answer:
1) Cause
2) Effect
3) Change
4) Continuity
5) Similarity
6) Difference
Cause
Why? Because it’s viewed as primary factors to explain the rise of urban centers in Afro-Eurasia
What Historical Reasoning Process is being referenced in the following statement: Between 200 B.C.E. and 1450 C.E., the Silk Roads linked East Asia and the Mediterranean Sea.
Answer:
1) Cause
2) Effect
3) Change
4) Continuity
5) Similarity
6) Difference
Continuity
Why? Because it existed THROUGH the years 200 B.C.E. and 1450 C.E.
What Historical Reasoning Process is being referenced in the following statement: Marco Polo described the use of paper money, use of coal and the practice of frequent bathing at Kublai Khan’s court (Yuan dynasty in China) that he had not encountered in Europe?
Answer:
1) Cause
2) Effect
3) Change
4) Continuity
5) Similarity
6) Difference
Difference
What Historical Reasoning Process is being referenced in the following statement: Christian Monks translated Arabic mathematics texts into Latin, which was possible as a result of soldiers who brought them to Europe from conquered territories in the Middle East following the Crusades.
Answer:
1) Cause
2) Effect
3) Change
4) Continuity
5) Similarity
6) Difference
Effect
Why? Because it was possible as a RESULT
During the late-nineteenth century (late-1800s), this region will come under the control of Belgium’s King Leopold (Congo Free State) and become a major source of natural rubber. This period of resource extraction resulted in the Berlin Conference (1884-1885) and a forced labor regime known for atrocities such as widespread killings and frequent mutilations.
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Mosoamerica
West Africa
Central Africa
East Africa
South Africa
Latin America, (including regions of Mesoamerica and the Caribbean)
Oceania
Europe
North America
Central Africa
By the Fifteenth Century (1400s), this region will undergo the process of Islamization as a result of merchants (diasporic merchant communities) and missionary (sufi) activity. Sufi missionaries made Islam appealing by assimilating it into existing religious traditions (use of mysticism) resulting in increased conversion throughout the region.
Answers:
Mosoamerica
West Africa
Central Africa
East Africa
South Africa
Latin America, (including regions of Mesoamerica and the Caribbean)
Oceania
Europe
North America
Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia
What World Region is the city of Timbuktu? This city is a trade center of its region (gold, salt and slave trade) and becomes an Islamic center that attracted scholars from all over Dar al-Islam. Architecturally, Mansa Musa commissioned the construction of the Djinguereber Mosque following his hajj (1324).
Answers:
Mosoamerica
West Africa
Central Africa
East Africa
South Africa
Latin America, (including regions of Mesoamerica and the Caribbean)
Oceania
Europe
North America
West Africa
What World Region is the city of Tenochtitlan? This capital city was founded in 1325 and by 1519, had a population of 200,000. This island (on a lake) capital was known for its markets that served 40,000 people daily, canals, temples, and being surrounded by chinampas.
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Mosoamerica
West Africa
Central Africa
East Africa
South Africa
Latin America, (including regions of Mesoamerica and the Caribbean)
Oceania
Europe
North America
Latin America, (including regions of Mesoamerica and the Caribbean)
What World Region is the city of Edo? This city became the de facto capital of the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1603, and following the Meiji Restoration (beg. 1868) the city of Edo was renamed Tokyo.
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Mosoamerica
West Africa
Central Africa
East Africa
South Africa
Latin America, (including regions of Mesoamerica and the Caribbean)
Oceania
Europe
North America
East Asia
East Asia
What World Region is the city of Huangzhou? One of six ancient capitals in its states history (others are Beijing, Nanjing, Luoyang, Chang’an, and Kaifeng), this city is the southern end of the Grand Canal. It became a capital of the Song dynasty when the Jin conquered the northern part of the Song state. The city is known for its West Lake and being visited by Ibn Battuta in 1345. It was the largest city on earth from 1180-1315 and again from 1348-1358. The Mongols (Yuan dynasty) captured the city in 1276 and moved the capital to Dadu (Beijing).
Answers:
Mosoamerica
West Africa
Central Africa
East Africa
East Asia
South Africa
Latin America, (including regions of Mesoamerica and the Caribbean)
Oceania
Europe
North America
East Asia
