Unit II: 600-1450
1. Islam literally means
A. ""the day of judgment is at hand.""
B. ""submission to God.""
C. ""the Qur'an is sacred.""
D. ""Muhammad is the prophet of Allah.""
2. The basic difference between the Sunni and Shi'ite Muslims was the Shi'ite doctrine of
A. ulema. B. Sufism. C. imamate. D. jihad.
3. Women in pre-Islamic Arab society
A. had no legal status.
B. were allowed a great deal of independence.
C. had the same property rights as men.
D. lived only in villages.
4. Concerning law, a Muslim believes that
A. government must make law and enforce it.
B. there is a clear distinction between temporal and spiritual domains.
C. God is its sole source.
D. it must depend on the ruler.
5. Abu Bakr was the first
A. hajib. B. Shi'ite. C. Abbasid. D. caliph.
6. Muslim imperial administration was patterned after the
A. Greeks. B. Egyptians. C. Romans. D. Sassanids.
10. The Mongols
A. killed the last Umayyad caliph. B. eventually embraced Islam.
C. sacked and conquered Egypt. D. were Confucian scholars.
12. In the early Umayyad state, women
A. played an active role in the community. B. could not own property.
C. had no freedom of movement. D. could not participate in politics.
13. Compared to Christian Europe, Muslim civilization during the Middle Ages can best be described as
A. vastly inferior. B. inferior in most areas but superior in others.
C. equally advanced. D. greatly superior.
15. Muslim conquest of western Europe reached as far as
A. the Straits of Gibraltar. B. the Pyrenees.
C. southern France. D. the mouth of the Rhine.
16. Muslim society tended to view trade and commerce as
A. very respectable and highly esteemed.
B. second only to agriculture as a way of life.
C. necessary but held in low esteem.
D. prohibited by the Qur'an.
17. Islam, Judaism, and Christianity are similar in that all three
A. worship on Sunday.
B. originated at the same time.
C. are monotheistic.
D. have always been humane toward infidels.
18. The Abbasid dynasty differed from the Umayyad dynasty
A. by moving its capital to Damascus.
B. because its members were Shi'ites.
C. because its administration and culture were Persian.
D. by always maintaining strict one-man rule.
23. SKIP Muslim expansion into central Asia in the eighth century reached as far as
A. the province of Khorasan. B. the Talas River.
C. northern Persia. D. Tashkent.
25. According to the Muslim concept of female sexuality, women
A. have no sex drive. B. are sexually insatiable.
C. should have no more than four husbands. D. should remain chaste.
26. Muslim women wear veils in public
A. to identify which harem they come from.
B. because women are all considered ugly.
C. to protect themselves from the harmful sun.
D. because all parts of their bodies are considered capable of arousing sexual desire.
28. Muslim scholarship far surpassed that of the West in the field of
A. medicine. B. warfare. C. religion. D. music.
1. The Berbers inhabited
A. South Africa. B. the Congo region. C. North Africa. D. the Gold Coast.
2. The Bantu people originally inhabited
A. South Africa. B. Rhodesia. C. Nigeria. D. Ethiopia.
5. Trans-Saharan trade was made possible by
A. the canteen. B. the camel. C. coined money. D. caravans.
10. At its peak, Timbuktu was
A. a trade center. B. an intellectual center.
C. a cosmopolitan, tolerant city. D. all of the above.
11. The Swahili language blends both Bantu and
A. Indonesian. B. Mali. C. Malagasy. D. Arabic.
12. Arab influence in eastern Africa
A. extended deep into the interior. B. spelled the end for animistic religion.
C. was mostly confined to coastal ports. D. left few permanent traces.
13. The Coptic Christianity adopted by the Ethiopians holds that Christ's nature is
A. both divine and human.
B. unknown.
C. divine only.
D. human only.
17. The East African coastal culture was called
A. anima. B. Mansa Musa. C. Swahili. D. Awkar.
19. The kingdom of Mali owed its greatness to two fundamental assets, its exceptional rulers and its
A. agricultural and commercial base.
B. slave trade.
C. rejection of Muslim traders and Muslim culture.
D. ability to refrain from the West Africa trade and to stick to agriculture.
21. The most powerful of the East African city-states was
A. Kilwa. B. Great Zimbabwe. C. Al Ghana. D. Kumbi.
22. For West Africa, an important consequence of the trans-Saharan trade was
A. the end of the slave trade. B. economic depression.
C. the decline of urban life. D. the conversion to Islam.
2. The religion that suffered the most severe decline due to the Muslim invasion in India was
A. Hinduism. B. Christianity. C. Buddhism. D. Daoism.
3. The Chinese invention of printing led to the use of
A. census records. B. paper money. C. tax records. D. propaganda.
4. Kublai Khan was
A. Mongol emperor of China. B. conqueror of southern Russia.
C. Jenghiz Khan's brother. D. conqueror of India.
5. An important Japanese contribution to literature by lady Murasaki is
A. the epic poem. B. the short story. C. the novel. D. free verse.
7. Well-off families in Song China bound the feet of their women
A. so they could attract a wealthy husband. B. to symbolize the inferior status of women.
C. to show they didn't have to work. D. because tiny feet were thought attractive.
8. Members of the Japanese warrior aristocracy were called
A. shogun. B. samurai. C. shoen. D. Bushido.
9. Bushido was
A. ritual suicide. B. the shogun's mandate to rule.
C. an upper-class religious custom. D. the warrior's code of honor.
14. The new scholar-elite of Song era China were
A. encouraged to avoid the study of Confucian texts.
B. discouraged from thinking or studying politics.
C. trained in very narrowly focused fields of study.
D. encouraged to acquire a broad and generalist education.
16. Under the Samurai, land holding in Japan
A. went completely out of the hands of monasteries.
B. came fully under the control of the royal family.
C. went from privately held to a system of "equal field."
D. became largely privatized by the local lords.
17. Beginning around the year 800 the trend in East Asia was toward
A. greater cultural differentiation whereby each society developed distinctive ways.
B. greater dependence on Indian culture and political organization.
C. greater dependence on Chinese culture and political organization.
D. greater dependence on Mongol culture and political organization.
4. Charlemagne was crowned emperor by
A. himself. B. his father Pippin. C. the pope. D. the Frankish council.
6. When Charlemagne's son, Louis the Pious, died, the empire
A. was divided into three parts.
B. remained intact under Charles Martel.
C. was united with the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.
D. remained a unified but weak state.
8. The Battle of Tours (733)
A. aided the spread of Christianity in the Frankish kingdom.
B. checked the advance of the Muslims in Europe.
C. made Pippin II mayor of the palace.
D. ended the Viking attacks.
9. The Carolingian Empire collapsed because
A. it was too large and lacked an effective bureaucracy.
B. it was overrun by Arabs and Turks.
C. Charlemagne's grandsons were lazy and incompetent.
D. Charlemagne failed to make a will.
11. Feudalism was a form of government concerned with the rights and powers of
A. the church. B. peasants. C. the military elite. D. absolute monarchs.
12. A feudal lord exercised all of the following rights EXCEPT
A. judicial. B. religious. C. political. D. economic.
16. Manorialism is concerned with
A. the economic side of feudalism.
B. the way the military was organized.
C. the spread of ancient texts.
D. the conversion of manors into centers of learning.
26. The Crusades originated as a reaction to
A. Christian-Muslim conflict in Spain.
B. the decline of Christian influence in Turkey.
C. the decline of Christian influence in Italy.
D. new economic opportunities in southern Italy.
33. Which of the following statements best describes the effect of the Crusades on the women of Europe?
A. They made it impossible for any women to experience foreign travel.
B. They further limited the possibilities of female independence.
C. They lowered the birthrate.
D. They provided greater economic opportunities for women.
35. The principle implied in the Magna Carta was
A. democracy B. that all people, even the king, are subject to the law.
C. that the king is above the law. D. that the people rule the monarch.
39. By the end of the twelfth century, the general European attitude toward Jews
A. became increasingly intolerant.
B. moved in the direction of greater acceptance.
C. led to political emancipation of the Jews.
D. had not changed over that of previous generations.
3. Medieval European peasants
A. traveled widely and visited many foreign countries.
B. had a sense of community and pride of place.
C. hardly ever drank alcoholic beverages.
D. refused to let women work in the fields.
4. Peasants usually did NOT consume
A. vegetables, particularly cabbage. B. large quantities of meat.
C. bread. D. beer.
5. In medieval society, noblewomen
A. usually married late in life.
B. had the right to select their husbands.
C. was often the manager of the family property
D. generally married men younger than themselves.
11. The surge of cathedral building in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries was closely associated with
A. the increase of university-trained architects.
B. financial hard times, which caused people to turn to religion.
C. the low cost of building materials.
D. the growth of towns and the increase of commercial wealth.
15. The plague was probably brought into Europe by
A. Chinese soldiers. B. Spanish warriors returning from South America.
C. English soldiers pushing into France. D. Genoese ships from the Crimea.
2. The secret of Inca imperial power seems to have been
A. its military might.
B. its religion.
C. its use of terror and human sacrifice.
D. its language, religion, and administrative system.
5. The Mesoamerican society that demonstrated mastery of abstract thinking, particularly in the areas of astronomy, mathematics, history, and calendric development, was
A. the Inca civilization. B. the Aztec civilization.
C. the Maya civilization. D. the Olmec civilization.
7. The early Aztecs founded their city of Tenochtitlan on the swamps of
A. Lake Texcoco. B. Ethiopia.
C. Thalmaitl. D. Orejones.
1. The potato originated in
A. South America. B. West Africa. C. eastern Europe D. India.
10. The central institution of the Aztec state was the
A. priesthood. B. army. C. peasantry. D. great landed estates.