Unit 2 Part 1 Review

1. Unit 2 Part 1 Review Chapters 6-10

2. What are non-Arab converts to Islam called?

3. What was the official language of the Byzantine Empire?

4. The Arabic Camel Nomads were called?

5. What tended to weaken the Bedouin in comparison to neighboring peoples and empires?

6. Who attempted to restore the glory of the Roman empire?

7. What was the invention that allowed for deeper turning of the soil?

8. What African empire possessed port cities of Jenne & Timbuktu?

9. Who were the conquerors of Kievan ? Russia after 1236

10. The political and religious successor of Muhammad (aka the Islamic religious leader) is called?

11. What was the fictional account (aka story) of life at the court of the Caliph al-Rashid?

12. At what age did women typically get married in the Abbasid era?

13. What group successfully captured Baghdad in 1055?

14. The Church was superior to what type of laws?

15. What group incorporated mysticism with Islam?

16. What group(s) in India were most likely to convert to Islam?

17. African societies who organized around kinship or other forms of obligation and lacking the concentration of political power were referred to as?

18. What was the most important Christian kingdom in Africa?

19. Leaders of the Mali empire were called?

20. African traders associated with the Mali empire were called?

21. Who mastered the oral traditions of the Manlinke and advised the kings?

22. Many African societies unaffected by either Christianity or Islam did not develop what?

23. What was the type of political organization of the Yoruba?

24. Who were the theological fraction of Islam believed that Ali and the descendants of Muhammad were the rightful ruler of Islam?

25. The grassland belt at the southern edge of the Sahara that served as a point of exchange between the forests of south and north Africa is called the?

26. Leaders of Bedouin clans were called?

27. What was the Bantu & Arabic based language that served as a common cultural trait between the trading ports of east Africa?

28. What was the capital of the Byzantine Empire?

29. What were the group of people that were literate prior to the 8th century?

30. What is the great church in Constantinople that was built by Justinian?

31. Who was the Muslim leader that reconquested most of the territories that had been captured by the Christian Crusaders?

32. Who was the leading figure in the synthesis of rational philosophy and theology?

33. Who is known for creating a set of rules for monasteries in the 6th century?

34. What Byzantine emperor defeated the Bulgarians and recaptured the Balkans?

35. What religion requires it’s priests to be celebate?

36. What form of Christianity began in the Byzantine Empire?

37. The practice of the state appointing bishops to power is called?

38. In what year did the Ottoman Turks seize Constantinople?

39. What does Islam mean?

40. What was the Slavic alphabet called?

41. Who was the first king of Kievian Russia?

42. The post classical period in Western Europe after the fall of Rome is referred to as?

43. Where were the Vikings from?

44. Agricultural laborers who were under the jurisdiction of aristocratic landowners were?

45. What are the Five Pillars of Islam?

46. What were the wars to defeat rival prophets and restore the unity of Islam called?

47. A form of crop rotation in which a 1/3 of the land is left unplanted is called?

48. Who initially saw Muhammad and his new faith as a threat to their religious and political leader in Mecca?

49. The system in which military elite exchanged land & protection for military service & loyalty is called?

50. The group of people who received land from military and provided military service were called?