UNIT TEST: Patterns of Civilization

Question 1

Which was the most important factor in Ghana’s rise?

Answer 1

the gold-for-salt trade

Question 2

Which best describes Timbuktu?

Answer 2

a center of Islamic learning in Africa

Question 3

Which best describes Songhai under Askia Muhammad?

Answer 3

a powerful trading empire that stretched from the Atlantic Ocean across much of West Africa

Question 4

Which does not describe all three kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhai?

Answer 4

they built large cities in the West African rain forest

Question 5

Which best explains the increase in the African slave trade after the fifteenth century?

Answer 5

the arrival of the Portuguese on the coast of Benin

Question 6

Which best describes the spread of culture along East Africa’s Swahili coast?

Answer 6

African culture mingled with traditions carried by Arab traders.

Question 7

Which religion had a major influence on East African cultures after being brought there by foreign traders?

Answer 7

Islam

Question 8

What is an origin of the African slave trade?

Answer 8

African societies often enslaved people they conquered or captured in battle.

Question 9

How did the Great Zimbabwe’s rise to power?

Answer 9

It controlled the region’s ivory and gold trade.

Question 10

Which is not a possible explanation of Great Zimbabwe’s decline?

Answer 10

the end of the slave trade

Question 11

What important feature made the Ottoman military successful?

Answer 11

highly disciplined janissaries

Question 12

Which resulted from the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453?

Answer 12

the city became an Islamic capital

Question 13

Which best describes a result of Emperor Süleyman’s reforms of Ottoman law?

Answer 13

religious freedom was allowed, with a tax for non-Muslims

Question 14

What does not explain the conflict between Ottomans and the Safavids?

Answer 14

the fall of Constantinople

Question 15

Which allowed Akbar to govern the many people of the Mughal Empire?

Answer 15

religious tolerance and inclusion

Question 16

Which represents a high point of achievement in Mughal architecture?

Answer 16

the Taj Mahal

Question 17

Which was a positive change that occurred in China because of Ming Dynasty policies?

Answer 17

increased agricultural output

Question 18

Which was not a key achievement of the Ming Dynasty?

Answer 18

the expansion of China’s borders

Question 19

How did the Manchu of the Qing Dynasty help control the people of China?

Answer 19

They retained traditional Chinese institutions.

Question 20

What was a result of China’s isolation from the rest of the world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?

Answer 20

China’s technology fell behind Europe’s.

Question 21

How did China’s rulers limit contact with the outside world during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries?

Answer 21

they allowed foreign traders only in select ports

Question 22

What best explains the Tokugawa Shogunate’s rise to power in Japan?

Answer 22

What best explains the Tokugawa Shogunate’s rise to power in Japan?

Question 23

Which group ranked just below the shogun in Japan’s feudal system?

Answer 23

daimyo

Question 24

Which led Japan’s Tokugawa shoguns to adopt a policy of isolation?

Answer 24

the rapid spread of Christianity

Question 25

Which was not a result of Japan’s isolation during the seventeenth century?

Answer 25

Japan lost all knowledge of European advances