AP Tavernia 2017-2018 Module 9

What is a grant of land in return for a pledge to provide military service?

What is the east African shores of the Indian Ocean between the Horn of Africa?

What is the Chinese manmade waterways that connected the major rivers and increased trade?

What is the name of god among Muslims?

Who are the nomads who lived in northern Eurasia and created a large empire under Chinggis Khan

What is the port city in the modern Southeast Asian country of Malaysia?

What are people of religion who focus on denying most things called(Buddhist & Christian monks)

What is an act of suicide by disembowelment that samurais perform if they fail their masters?

Who is the Arab prophet who founded Islam and where was he born?

What is Umma?

What is the warrior code the samurai live by?

What is a judge in a Muslim community, whose decisions are based on Islamic religious law?

Which of this regarding information the Dark Ages is false?

What are the seasonal winds in the Indian Ocean that cause predictable heavy rainfall?

What is the war between Mongols and the Turkic-speaking Mamluks?

What are Hindi numerals used by Islamic states, taken from the people they conquered?

What is the practice that gave middlemen the responsibility of collecting taxes?

What is a roadside inn where travelers could rest and recover from the day's journey?

Who is the clan who, after seizing power of Japan, instituted the shogun?

Who is Mansa Musa?

Who is the Venetian merchant who mixed fantasy w/ factual in his accounts of his travels?

Who is the Chinese monk & traveller who described China and India's interaction (Tang dynasty)

What is a port city in the modern day south Arabian country of Yemen?

What is the man who calls Muslims to prayer through a minaret called?

What are cultural characteristics that is commonly shared on the continental Africa called?

What is a cubical shrine w/ idols, which aided the emergence of Mecca as a pilgrimage site?

What is hijrah?

What is a series of Christian military campaigns against Muslims in the eastern Mediterranean?

What is the Muslim model for proper living?

What is a curved metal blade in a plow that allows for deeper turning of the soil?

What is the investiture controversy?

What is an agricultural laborer legally bound to a lord’s property?

What is Ceasaropapism?

What are the religious taxes that Muslims pay to give to the poor?

Who is the Muslim scholar who studied and improved upon Ptolemy’s cosmological model?

What are the Arabian cargo and passenger ships of the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean called?

What are Islamic holy houses called?

What is the central administration of the Roman Catholic Church, of which the pope is the head?

What is the idea that Muhammad was the last prophet of Islam?

What is the loose federation of mostly German states headed by an emperor elected by princes?

What is a shogun?

What is the rule the regular clergy live by?

Where are the tropics?

What is the branch of Buddhism that believes Buddha was a god NOT a simple, human teacher?

What is the Islamic holy month where Muslims fast from sunup to sundown?

What is a bacterial disease that can be transmitted by flea bites to rodents and humans?

What are the large Chinese junks that carried silks & other goods to trade (Ming)?

Who is the founder of the Mongol Empire?

Who are the amerindian peoples who inhabited the Greater Antilles during Columbus' time?

What is a group of Muslim scholars known for knowledge of Islamic sacred theology called?