Unit II Review Flashcards
What was Muhammad’s view of Jews and Christians?
He felt they were misguided.
Dhows were…
Arab ships.
The capital of the Abbasid Empire was…
Baghdad.
The Ridda Wars were fought over control of…
Arabia.
______ greatly facilitated the spread of Muslim rule in the Mediterranean region.
The fall of the western Roman Empire…
The title given to the successors of Muhammad is…
caliph.
Which group founded and dominated Mecca around 600 CE?
The Umayyad clan
What was the name for the nomadic pastoralists of Arabia?
bedouins
Who was Muhammad’s cousin, who led the opposition to the Umayyads at the Battle of Siffin?
Ali
Comparison of the Shah Mosque and the Dome of the Rock illustrate…
the impact of different artistic traditions on Muslim architecture.
The Abbasid victory over the Umayyads signaled…
the end of the Arab monopoly on power in Islam.
The Shi’a are followers of…
Ali and Husayn.
In terms of the connections of the Arab world with broader world networks, the Abbasid age represented…
an intensification and expansion of these links forged in the Umayyad age.
Jesus and Muhammad differed most markedly in their…
relationship with their god.
The division of the Muslim world in the late 600s CE reflected which of these characteristics of Islam?
Succession to Muhammad was a vital component of the Muslim political world.
Who was the first caliph to succeed Muhammad?
Abu Bakr
The prophet of Islam is…
Muhammad.
The dhimmi were originally…
the Jews and Christians.
What people were led by Chinggis Khan in the thirteenth century?
the Mongols
What were the Muslim slaves called that established a new dynasty in Egypt?
Mamluks
The first Arab incursions into India could be characterized as a result of…
Arab commercial expansion.
What was a recurring problem in the Abbasid and succeeding empires?
slave uprisings
The Shi’a ______ the Abbasid dynasty.
seriously weakened
As with Muhammad, al-Maudi left a…
succession crisis.
The Maghrib is the region of…
western North Africa.
Who was the founder of the Mali Empire?
Sundiata
As in southeast Asia, Islam was spread to sub-Saharan Africa by…
merchants.
Civilization along the Swahili coast was primarily the product of…
contact with Arabia.
What civilization greatly resembles Cahokia, both in its isolated development and the impression it made on the first European observers?
Great Zimbabwe
Like Harappa, Great Zimbabwe was…
a civilization that is understood only from its remains.
What language spread across Africa through a long period of migration?
Bantu
What Germanic tribe dominated in North Africa in the fifth and sixth centuries?
Vandals
Who was an Arab traveler that provided important information on postclassical African culture?
Ibn Battuta
The Malinke griots were…
oral historians.
What was the political center of the Bantu peoples in southeast Africa?
Great Zimbabwe
What gave the Byzantine Empire a new role between two very different cultures?
The Arab conquests of the 7th and 8th centuries
Compared to western Europe, Russia adopted Christianity ______.
much later
The religion of the Byzantine Empire was…
Orthodox Christianity.
The Hagia Sophia was the ______ of Constantinople.
greatest church
Greek fire was a ______ used by the Byzantine Empire.
weapon
Who captured most of the Byzantine Empire’s Asian lands in the eleventh century?
The Seljuk Turks
What emerged around 855 CE?
Kievan Rus’
The Arab conquests of the 7th and 8th centuries had what impact on the split between the two halves of the former Roman Empire?
increased it
Kievan Rus’ was ended in the 13th century by the ______ invasion.
Tatar
The Cyrillic alphabet was developed for ______ languages.
Slavic
Around 600 CE, it is most likely that the Byzantine emperors ______ the role claimed by the Roman pope.
rejected
The ruler of the Byzantine Empire in the sixth century and responsible for a new law code:
Justinian
The Tartars were…
Mongols.
Who sacked Constantinople in 1204?
a Crusade led by Venetian merchants
The boyars were Russia’s…
nobles.
From about 500 to 1000 CE, compared the western Europe, the Byzantine Empire was…
more stable.
The eastern half of the Roman Empire became the ______ around 500 CE.
Byzantine Empire
The schism that split the Greek and Catholic church occurred in what century?
the eleventh
Who was the most important of the scholastic philosophers?
Thomas Aquinas
About what percent of the European population was urban in the 1200s CE?
5%
The guilds and the Hanseatic league were alike in being…
organizations formed to increase cooperation and promote business.
The Scandinavian raiders of the eighth to eleventh centuries were the…
Vikings.
Unlike the early Arab expansion under Muhammad, the Crusades can be characterized as…
a holy war.
Who was the first Frankish monarch to convert to Christianity?
Clovis
The rulers of the German lands and Italy took the title of…
Holy Roman Emperor.
What pattern was illustrated by the results of the Hundred Years’ War?
Kings generally gain from a weakened nobility.
The Hundred Years’ War was fought by…
France and England.
The impact of the Black Death can be characterized as…
catastrophic, but without permanent results.
The Hanseatic League was composed of…
towns.
The three-field system was implemented in Europe to…
improve productivity.
Investiture is the process of…
appointing bishops.
The Carolingians were a…
Frankish ruling family.
In medieval Europe, women arguably had more ______ than women in contemporary Asia.
freedom of movement
What was the code of behavior in Europe’s upper class?
chivalry
Over most of Christian Europe, between 500 to 700 CE…
civilization nearly came to an end.
