APWHM Fall Semester Exam

Who was the caliph of the Ayyubid caliphate who challenged the Kingdom of Jerusalem?

The Inuit really do live in what?

What ethnic group among the peasant class rose up to overthrow the Ming Dynasty?

What was the undoing of the Ming Dynasty?

What is “democracy”?

What sort of government was the Kingdoms of Kongo?

Who mostly provided cultural goods like weapons and books?

What is “theocracy”?

What infamous event in American history did the Cherokee endure?

The Anasazi are from what region of the modern United States?

What are the five pillars of Islam?

Who was the founder of the influential, but short-lived, Timurid Empire?

What was unique about the style of Islam brought to India under the Mughal Empire, at least initially?

Who was Genghis Khan’s oldest son, whose claim to the Khanate was always murky?

What does the term “Muslim” mean?

Which Caliphate replaced the Umayyads?

What is the “problem with paintings”?

The Middle Ages in Europe began with which catastrophic event?

What is the fundamental disagreement between Sunnis and Shias?

What is NOT one of the arguments for calling the Medieval period the “Dark Ages”?

What was the Sui Dynasty’s contribution to Chinese history?

From which dynasty does China get its name?

What city, once thought to be mythical, was discovered in 1911 and revolutionized our understanding of Inca history?

What two events temporarily paused the Hundred Years’ War?

Why was the Three Kingdoms Period the deadliest of China’s dynastic periods?

When the average American pictures an Indian, what tribe did your teacher say usually comes to mind?

What name does Temujin receive from his followers after successfully uniting all the major tribes of the Mongol plains?

What explanation do historians give for the lack of Japanese presence in the historical record?

What was the name of Suleiman’s wife?

Which African kingdom was the first to establish official trade relations with the Portuguese?

Why did your teacher claim that Christianity was a double-edged sword for Rome?

Identify the problem and the solution for “Judaism”.

Why did virtually every civilization come to a sudden halt in the 13th century?

What is “phenomenology”?

Shortly after the wedding, what happened to Borte?

What is the most important reason that it’s important to understand Alexander the Great?

Who succeeds Genghis Khan as the Khan?

What rule were the Jews exempt from following that everyone else in the empire had to follow?

Who is the most culturally and economically successful group within the Bantu peoples?

What surprising fact about the way the Japanese during the Heian period recorded history did your teacher point out?

The ninjas belonged to what social class?

What event made the Romans realize that Jews and Christians were no longer practicing the same religion?

The Ghana Empire greatly benefitted from the collapse of what other empire?

What two contradictory ideas did your teacher claim creates a tension that all religions are born in?

What reasons do we have to believe that the “land bridge” theory is false?

Who mostly provided raw materials like animal skins, timber, and ivory?

Which Mongolian ruler sacked Baghdad?

Why was fishing the most common form of hunting in the prehistoric world?

What was Hoelun’s main reason for wanting Borte back?

Where did Mansa Musa travel which reinforced stereotypes about Africans present since the Nubians?

Who is widely considered to be the first Ottoman sultan?

The Eastern Roman Empire evolved into which empire?

What dynasty replaced the Mongol occupation?

What estimated percentage of the world’s population lived near the Indian Ocean during this time period?

Toward the end of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, who was king, also known as the “leper king”?

Despite the Turks, Persians, and other Muslims asserting their independence, they forever wore the influences of who?

Who stopped the Muslim invasion of Europe at the Battle of Tours?

Which Crusade is considered to have achieved the most success?

What trade did Abu Talib teach Muhammad while raising him after he was orphaned?

How did Genghis Khan die?

What is “animism”?

The Swahili practiced a particularly cruel version of what?

Who was the first European monarch to accept the title of “King”?

What extraordinary fact about the Mali Empire is likely, but has not been conclusively proven?

What was the downside to teaching the Ottoman soldiers every weapon available in their military?

All religions are trying to answer what two questions?

Who sabotaged a peace treaty with the Ayyubid caliphate and later became the King of Jerusalem?

What technology did Mehmed introduce to the battlefield?

The period of stability and peace created in the aftermath of the Mongol conquests is known by historians as what?

Identify the problem and the solution for “Buddhism”.

Ghana was mostly what religion?

Why did the tribe attempt to abandon Hoelun and her children?

What nation made up the “third pillar” of the Silk Road in the Ancient world?

What empire overthrew the Timurids, starting what historians consider to be the beginning of modern Iranian history?

What does “pax romana” mean?

What was the name of the first caliphate?

What is “diffusion”?

When Ali was assassinated by Mu’awiya I, what caliphate did Mu’awiya establish?

What is “zoroastrianism”?

What is “paganism”?

What is considered the first codified law, or at least the oldest to currently survive?

What metric did your teacher claim most people unknowingly use when they say the word “civilization” or “civilized”?

What happened to the Abbasid Empire?

What did the Aztecs practice that, while practiced by many cultures, they became wildly infamous for?

What is “monarchy”?

What did your teacher claim was the undoing of the Gupta Empire?

After Guy of Lusignan’s humiliating loss to Saladin, to whom did the defense of Jerusalem fall?

The Mongol occupation of China is known as what dynasty?

What trade were the Nubians known for?

What happened to the Maya Empire?

Despite its desirability, what was the major flaw of the fertile crescent area?

While rising out of the ashes of the Muslim Empires, the Ottomans were not Arabs, but what ethnicity?

Who, at age 17, helped save France in the Hundred Years' War?

Which Roman emperor was especially cruel to the Christians?

Your teacher made the claim that Mali and Ghana are essentially the same empire, with what critical difference?

It is widely agreed that all humans are from where?

Who ended religious tolerance in the Mughal Empire, facilitating centuries of resentment between Muslims and Hindus?

What did Yongle build after moving the capital to Beijing, that weakened the Ming Dynasty in the long run?

When soldiers completed training, what tradition did the Ottomans have to improve the conditioning of their soldiers?

The Blackfoot are most known for hunting what animal?

What does “philosophy” mean?

What do historians call the Taj Mahal, illustrating its diverse cultural influences?

What was the upside to teaching the Ottoman soldiers every weapon available in their military?

What did the Swahili bring to the table for trade on the Indian Ocean?

What is “Jainism”?

What is a secondary source?

What is “historiography”?

The Tang Dynasty was also known as what?

Why is it difficult to fully understand Viking beliefs about their gods?

Who did your teacher claim is the most famous leader of the Mongol Empire, aside from Genghis himself?

What is “shinto”?

Despite disagreement, virtually all say that by what date is the Roman Empire no longer in existence?

What did the Ottoman people begin calling Suleiman as a sign of affection?

Why did Tamerlane struggle to assert his legitimacy?

What is a “caliphate”?

What does “AD” and “CE” stand for?

What was the “Great Schism”?

What two things did Temujin do when he turned 16?

What do the Sioux call their children?

What does “Apache” mean?

What does “Hohokam” mean?

What reason do we have to think that the Xia dynasty might be fictional?

How was Japanese warfare different from European warfare?

What was Abu Bakr’s most significant contribution to Islam?

Most countries in the wake of the Mongols reasserted themselves naturally, because of what Mongol characteristic?

What is a “paper tiger”?

What is “reverence”?

In the eyes of the Ottomans, what was probably the strangest thing that Suleiman did?

Greece was built on what political unit?

What are the three pillars of Sikhism?

What are the two occasions a historian might use a Circa?

What friend did Temujin make that might have saved the tribe from rival raids?

The Indian Ocean Trade Network was diverse, even in comparison to what other critical trade network?

What important trade network was established under the Han Dynasty?

What are the 3 types of money?

Your teacher made the claim that Buddhism is essentially Hinduism, without what key characteristic?

Which leader won the civil war, cementing the rule of the Umayyads and the dominance of Sunni Islam?

When Temujin was 9 years old, what happened to his father?

Who brought temporary order to central Europe in the 8th century?

What did your teacher claim is the rule of thumb in regards to disease?

While the Umayyad Empire struggled to rule, what did your teacher claim was the central issue?

How did Mehmed attract skilled workers to Istanbul?

What made travel and navigation of the Indian Ocean predictable and reliable?

Identify the problem and the solution for “Islam”.

Buddhism in Japan took (in part) what form?

Despite divergent cultures, what do all Bantu people have in common?

What is “iconography”?

What is “dictatorship”?

Most religions can be summed up into what three categories?

What does “eurocentric” mean?

What is a “caliph”?

Identify the problem and the solution for “Christianity”.

The Song Dynasty was one of the first civilizations in world history to begin using what?

Suleiman was secretly funding what religious movement in an attempt to destabilize the Catholic Church?

The Muslim empires to emerge out of the collapse of the Mongol Empire became known collectively as what?

All human beings originate from where?

Fearing assassination, what did Mehmed seek out to do early in his reign that his predecessors had failed to do?

What two points of view completely ignore both the diversity and humanity of Native Americans?

What unique feature does Inca architecture have, making cities more defensible?

The introduction of what animal made trade across the Sahara easier, safer, and cheaper?

What brutal practice eventually became the common method of ascension to the sultan’s throne?

What is a primary source?

Who was the most important leader of the Mali and a contender for the richest man to ever live?

What does a small c. in front of a date stand for and does it mean?

After the raid to rescue Borte was successful, what additional revelation does Temujin have?

What is a “dynasty”?

The discovery of what text dramatically expanded our knowledge of the Mongols?

What did Suleiman fund at the beginning of his reign that led to Ottoman prosperity?

What is the “neolithic revolution”?

When Balin discussed terms with Saladin about Jerusalem’s surrender, what did Saladin say?

In this order, which type of Islam did the Gunpowder Empires practice? Ottomans - Safavids - Mughals?

What does “BC” and “BCE” stand for?

What is a “historical controversy”?

After the death of Kublai Khan, what did his relatives do with the empire?

Identify the problem and the solution for “Hinduism”.

What two traditional societal pillars does Hongwu re-establish after overthrowing the Yuan Dynasty?

What two questions did your teacher want you to keep in mind when studying the “shifting of power” in world history?

Despite being diligent record keepers, why are the writings of the Early Indus people no help to historians?

What is “oligarchy”?

What are the 3 problems of economics?

What did Osman I tell Edebali in order to gain his political and military support?

Which ruler came the closest to reclaiming the glory of the Roman Empire?

Which Roman emperor converted to Christianity and made it the official religion of the empire?

The Samurai belonged to what social class?

What did the emperor Yongle establish that became the standard and curriculum for civil service examinations in China?

What is “syncretism”?

Who succeeded Mehmed to the throne, but was assassinated for his perceived weakness?

From the onset of the Ming Dynasty, what new challenge was facing China that had never really been dealt with before?

Identify the problem and the solution for “Sikhism”.

Who was the first caliph?

According to your teacher, Greek life was all about maintaining what?

The Kingdoms of Kongo eventually converted to what religion?

What were the two most powerful city-states in Greece?

What are the three branches of Buddhism?

Selim I was so hated, died so young, and died so suddenly, that historians think what about his death?

What series of wars established Rome’s dominance of the Mediterranean Sea?

In what city was Muhammad born, later becoming the center of Islamic culture?

What did Mehmed rename Constantinople?

What is “specialization”?

According to your teacher, the Roman Empire didn’t really collapse; it just: