Byzantine, Islam, Africa, and Mongols test

Question 1

What was the series of wars in the Middle East between the Christians And Muslims called?

Accepted Answer

the Crusades

Question 2

What groups do the Mongols live in?

Accepted Answer

clans

Question 3

Sunni Ali was the 1st great leader of what kingdom?

Accepted Answer

Songhai

Question 4

What was the most important animal for trade in west Africa?

Accepted Answer

camel

Question 5

What is the Declaration of Faith?

Accepted Answer

Declaring there is only 1 god and Muhammad is his messenger

Question 6

What was the great capital of the Byzantine empire?

Accepted Answer

Constantinople

Question 7

What are the 3 holy cities of Islam?

Accepted Answer

Mecca, Medina, Jerusalem

Question 8

what effect did Mansa Musa's Hajj have on West Africa and North Africa?

Accepted Answer

the economies of the region improved

Question 9

What Byzantine emperor created a set of laws to rule the people in his empire?

Accepted Answer

Justinian

Question 10

What is the dry grassland called where the Mongols lived?

Accepted Answer

Steppe

Question 11

What people founded Great Zimbabwe?

Accepted Answer

Shona

Question 12

what are the 2 sects of Islam?

Accepted Answer

Sunni, Shiite (Shia)

Question 13

Who overthrew the Songhai people?

Accepted Answer

the Moroccans

Question 14

what weapons did the Moroccans use to over throw the Songhai people?

Accepted Answer

guns

Question 15

What is the house of worship for Muslims?

Accepted Answer

Mosque

Question 16

Who overthrew Sunni Ali's son?

Accepted Answer

Askia Muhammad

Question 17

What do the Shiites (Shia) believe?

Accepted Answer

the leader should be directly related to Muhammad

Question 18

What were the effects from the contact between the Benin people and the Portuguese?

Accepted Answer

European influence in Africa, increase in the slave trade

Question 19

what are the regions called that the Mongols ruled?

Accepted Answer

khanates

Question 20

What do the Sunni's believe?

Accepted Answer

the leader of the religion needs to be elected

Question 21

What did Portugal do to East Africa?

Accepted Answer

Attacked port cities

Question 22

Was the Mutapa Empire conquered by the Portuguese?

Accepted Answer

no

Question 23

Who is Ibn Battuta?

Accepted Answer

A Muslim traveler

Question 24

What is the holy text of Islam?

Accepted Answer

Koran

Question 25

what is a modern example of the power struggle between the Sunni and the Shiites (Shia)?

Accepted Answer

The governmental changes in Iraq

Question 26

What is a Jihad?

Accepted Answer

a struggle in the way of god

Question 27

What happened when Sunni Ali died?

Accepted Answer

His son took over

Question 28

what were the most important trade items in west Africa?

Accepted Answer

gold and salt

Question 29

What languages were blended to make Swahili?

Accepted Answer

Arabic and Bantu

Question 30

What is the Hijrah?

Accepted Answer

Muhammad fleeing Mecca

Question 31

What religion was spread by the Byzantines?

Accepted Answer

Eastern Orthodox Christianity

Question 32

Who was the most important and most wealthy leader of Mali?

Accepted Answer

Mansa Musa

Question 33

Who are the 2 famous rulers of the Mongols?

Accepted Answer

Genghis Khan, Kublai Khan

Question 34

Who did the Benin people come into contact with?

Accepted Answer

the Portuguese

Question 35

What is the name of the holy site that people visit in Mecca while on a Hajj?

Accepted Answer

Kaaba

Question 36

Was Sunni Ali's son Muslim?

Accepted Answer

no

Question 37

What was the primary animal used by the Mongols

Accepted Answer

horses

Question 38

What people defeated the empire of Ghana?

Accepted Answer

the Berbers

Question 39

Did Kublai Khan conquer Japan?

Accepted Answer

no

Question 40

Who took over after Muhammad died?

Accepted Answer

Abu Bakr

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