Unit 1: Global Tapestry - Test Review

Italian port city that got rich during the Crusades. Future center of the Black Death and Renaissance:

What are the two sects of Islam?

Capital of the Abbasid Caliphate and the Muslim world, vibrant trading city, "house of wisdom" is there, Tigris River:

English document that guaranteed feudalism in writing and supported the idea that a king's power is limited:

CHALLENGE: What is the third truth of the Four Noble Truths?

CHALLENGE: The name of the god of Zoroastrianism, Ahuramazda means:

A government made up of people educated, skilled, and talented. The Civil Service Exam in China is an example:

Japanese prince who would bring Chinese culture to Japan:

Name for a time period seen by historians as the "peak" of a particular civilization:

Holy city to all three Abrahamic religions, epicenter of the Crusades, Constantine built a church there:

Wealthy landowners in Tang China who could afford to educate their children to serve in government:

CHALLENGE: The first dynasty of the united Korea:

CHALLENGE: Languages spoken locally in Europe like English, French, German, and Spanish instead of Latin are called:

Representative government in England:

Serfs were:

What country served as a "cultural bridge" between China and Japan:

For-profit enterprise, investment, free-trade, and private property, existed in medieval cities... What economic system?

Salah al-Din recaptured Jerusalem from the Christians following the:

Kami, anscestor worship, organized faith of medieval Japan... Which religion/philosophy?

Muslim general who began the Umayyad dynasty:

CHALLENGE: What does China recognize as its "official" faith?

Named for its founder, focused on creating order and morality in China, based on the "Way"... Which religion/philosophy?

Lords' estates ran as self-sufficient micro economies. Serfs and peasants worked the land and paid for services:

What was the primary religion of the Byzantine Empire?

CHALLENGE: The civil war that ended the Japanese Middle Ages

Name for a time period historians know relatively little about, usially associated with negative things:

CHALLENGE: What was the relationship between a higher and lower status person called in feudalism?

Formed out of Aryan beliefs, reincarnation, karma, and Moksha... Which religion/philosophy?

The economy of the Islamic world was based on:

Arab trading city, holy center of Islam, one goes on the "hajj" there:

CHALLENGE: Last of the four "rightly guided" cailiphs before the rise of the Umayyads:

The Muslim world imported many slaves from:

Eastern European peoples who migrated to form Poland, Bohemia, Ukraine, and Russia

Official religion of the Persian Empire, Ahuramazda, monotheism... Which religion/philosophy?

Founded by Siddhartha Gautama, 4 Noble Truths, Nirvana, and the Great World Soul... Which religion/philosophy?

Which law legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire

Frankish king/"Roman emperor". Leader of the first W. European empire since the fall of Rome. Revival of learning:

Muslim leader who led the conquest of India:

Capital of the Byzantine Empire, named for a Roman emperor, sacked in the 4th Crusade:

Holy warfare in defense of Islam:

CHALLENGE: When was the Battle of Hastings?

Organized society in Europe and Japan in the absense of stable powerful states:

Middle Ages European empire formed out of fiercely independent German and Italian states:

How would the Pope use religion to control European kings

Founded by Lao Tzu, do not interfere with the universe, blended with other religions... Which religion/philosophy?

CHALLENGE: Type of Buddhism mixing Mahayana and Daoist practices:

Claimed Jesus was the son of God and Savior, his letters would make up a lot of the New Testament:

The biggest engineering achievment of the Sui dynasty in China:

Jerusalem was conqured by the Christians in the:

Constantinople was sacked by the crusaders in the: