HIST 3 Final Review

In the earliest decades of Muslim rule, what was the most important differentiator of status?

What likely set Athens on the path toward democracy as early as the eighth century BCE?

Through what means did the Sassanid kings rule their empire?

From where did Mamluk forces come to help liberate Syria and Palestine from Mongol rule?

What was the only part of the Mongol world in which the rulers did not convert to Islam?

What causes the bubonic plague?

Before Islam was introduced to the Arabian Peninsula, which religious beliefs did the people there practice?

What allowed for the development of an Ottoman state independent of the Seljuk Turks’ Sultanate of Rum?

The Ghana and Mali Empires were centered on what two capital cities, respectively?

According to Muslim belief, which of the following statements is true?

How did the Sassanids and Byzantines practice cultural exchange?

What was one of the major tenets of early Confucian thought?

What group of people were persecuted in many parts of Europe for ostensibly causing the plague?

Economic growth in Yuan China was ______.

What name did the Mongols take in their rule over China?

What was important about the Diamond Sutra?

Bantu-speaking peoples brought innovations to southern Africa that led to the foundation of which medieval kingdoms?

What kingdom succeeded because of its ability to monopolize trade through the Palk Strait?

Which of the following are among the many sources for early Islamic history?

Which of the following emperors made Christianity the official religion of his country?

What were the four primary social classes in Neo-Assyrian society?

What battle signaled the end of expansion of both the Tang and the Abbasid empires?

What group did Ibn Yasin form?

What was true of the plague’s impact on the world of the fourteenth century?

What happened to wages of ordinary workers in Europe after the end of the Black Death?

In 410, the city of Rome was sacked by Alaric, who was from which Germanic group?

How did invasion by Timur influence the development of the Ottoman state?

Where was the first recorded use of gunpowder in battle?

How did Temujin change traditional seminomadic practices for dealing with men captured from those he defeated?

What was a defining feature of the earliest supporters of Ali, who became the Shia?

The first emperor of the Ming dynasty had sympathy for the poor because in his early life he had been what?

During what period did the Kingdom of Kush cooperate with the Hyksos rulers of the Nile delta?

The Mongol army defeated the Ottomans at which battle?

Who is traditionally known as the founder of Ghana?

What characterized the political systems of the West African empires?

Which was not an example of foreign contact that took place during the Ming dynasty?

Following the Black Death, the decline of feudalism in western Europe was hastened by what factor?

What was the Golden Horde?

How did Europeans respond to Ottomans’ taking control of trade in the eastern Mediterranean and along the Silk Roads?

Who were the successors to the Umayyads?

Which statement best describes the multiregional evolution model?

What Greek city was the largest in the Hellenistic period?

These were extremely secluded places for the most religiously devout in Late Antiquity

What dynasty in China centralized government and moved powerful administrators between territories to reduce rebellions?

What was the language of the Silk Roads until the seventh century CE?

What does it mean to call Olmec civilization a “mother culture?”

Why was proximity to a seaport important to Roman trade?

Who is credited with establishing the first-known empire in world history?

What was the relationship between the Germanic kings and the non-German aristocracy they ruled?

The Great Famine of 1315–1317 primarily affected what region?