World History Mid-Term Study Guide

Mansa Musa was famous for being a Ghana ruler.

Who were the samurai?

The Tang and Song Dynasties are known for the inventions of gunpowder and ______________________.

What year did Mansa Musa take his pilgrimage to Mecca?

Also, the Latin language was spread by _______________________________________ during Medieval times.

Chivalry is to knights: as ____________________ is to samurais.

How can the Mongols be described?

Which physical feature made Constantinople easy to defend?

Muslims are noted for inventing algebra.

Which tribes invaded and finally ended the old Roman Empire?

Justinian’s Code was the basis for what in many countries?

Shoguns were in charge of the Shinto temples.

An important Islamic centers of culture and learning in Africa was in the city of ____________________________.

The animistic religion practiced by the earliest Japanese was ____________________.

What was a key element of Prince Shotoku’s Constitution

The successors of Muhammad were called _____________________________..

How were the cities of Timbuktu and Djenne similar?

The _____________________ and the Shia were the main divisions of Islam

Mansa Musa brought ____________ ___________ to Mali.

The pope and the emperor excommunicating each other led to the final split of the eastern and western churches.

Mansa was the ruler of ___________________.

The Tang Dynasty developed a new kind of rice and improved irrigation methods led to _________________________________.

Which of the following best summarizes the Five Pillars of Islam?

The successors of Muhammad were called ___________________.

Shoguns were in charge of the merchants

Muslims are noted for being the founders of Chemistry

What was a key element of Prince Shotoku’s Constitution?

What happened to the Roman Empire when it became too large to govern easily?

Islam spread through military conquest and ______________________________.

Shoguns were in charge of the military.

What two items were the most important to African trade?

Muslims are note for confirming the world is round.

Two ways Islam was spread are along trade routes and through military conquest.

Muslims are forbidden to create icons and idols. Most Muslim artists focused on _____________________________________.

What is an important purpose of griots?

The entire Roman Empire falling led to the final split of the eastern and western churches.

What describes the geography of Japan?

The fall of Rome began with poor leadership, attacks by invaders, and ____________________.

The Latin language spread beyond Rome by ____________________________________

What was Emperor Justinian’s main contribution to Byzantine Law?

In Medieval times, Japan was influenced by the countries of _______________________________.

Medieval Japan and Europe are similar because both are ________________________.

What best describes Japan?

What was the most famous of Emperor Justinian building accomplishments?