Unit 4B Test Review: Byzantines, Russia, Mongols, Chinese Dynasties, and Islam
1. According to Islamic religion, who is the last and greatest of the prophets?
2. Describe the economic advantage of the location of Constantinople.
3. Describe the status of women during the Tang and Song Dynasties.
4. Explain the Five Pillars of Faith
5. How did advances in astronomy help Muslim way of praying?
6. How did the Muslims treat people of other religions in their empire?
7. Know the Chinese dynasties in chronological order (Zhou, Qin, Han, Tang, Song, Ming).
8. Know where the Mongol Empire, Mecca, Sahara Desert, Arabian Desert, and Constantinople are
located on a map.
9. Muslims face which city when they pray?
10. What caused the Tang Dynasty to fall?
11. What city was Europe’s greatest commerce center in the 12 century?
12. What do Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have in common?
13. What happened to the Mongol Empire after Genghis Khan died?
14. What inventions occurred during the Song Dynasty?
15. What inventions occurred during the Tang Dynasty?
16. What is a caliphate?
17. What is a qadi?
18. What is Al-Kwarazini known for inventing?
19. What is an imam?
20. What is hajj?
21. What is jihad?
22. What is Sharia law?
23. What is the difference between Sunnis and Shi’a?
24. What is the Koran?
25. What two bodies of water helped the Islamic empires control trade?
26. What was Confucianism?
27. What was Daoism?
28. What was Justinian’s Code? How was it written?
29. What was Legalism?
30. What was significant about the House of Wisdom in Baghdad?
31. What was the capital of the Abbasid caliphate?
32. What was the capital of the Fatimid caliphate?
33. What was the first Mongol dynasty in China?
34. What was the Great Schism?
35. What was the Hagia Sophia? Where was it?
36. What was the Hippodrome?
37. What was the Khanate of the Golden Horde?
38. Which group followed the rightly guided caliphs?
39. Who created the largest continuous land empire in history?
40. Who invented paper?
41. Who was responsible for overthrowing the Chinese and forming the Yuan Dynasty?
42. Who were the “people of the book”?
43. Why did the Mongol Empire fall apart thus limiting the establishment of the Mongolian civilization in
the Middle East?
44. Why were ideas and inventions able to easily spread with trade between Europe and Asia within the
Mongol Empire?
45. Why were the Mongols not able to conquer Japan and include Japan in their empire?