Unit 4 Review

Question 1

The people of Ghana often traded their gold for

Accepted Answer

salt, which was used to preserve food and improve its taste.

Question 2

Mansa Musa made a pilgrimage to Makkah during his reign.

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True

Question 3

Which of the following is the largest desert on Earth?

Accepted Answer

the Sahara

Question 4

Korean society was strongly influenced by

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the Chinese model of society.

Question 5

The Japanese word kamikaze means

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“divine wind.”

Question 6

Many African societies were matrilineal, meaning

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descent was traced through the mother.

Question 7

In 1206 Temüjin was elected Genghis Khan, after which he

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devoted himself to conquest, eventually establishing the Mongol Empire.

Question 8

Which of the following activities were young men allowed to do whilepreparing for the civil service examination in China

Accepted Answer

writing

Question 9

________ were heads of noble families who controlled vast landed estates in Japan.

Accepted Answer

Daimyo

Question 10

The first Mongol dynasty in China was the

Accepted Answer

Yuan

Question 11

What are the two major parts of Southeast Asia?

Accepted Answer

the mainland down to the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula

Question 12

Which of the following was at the heart of the Chinese state government from the Song dynasty to the end.

Accepted Answer

Confucianism

Question 13

Mongols were a pastoral people from modern-day Russia.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

Which of the following was the first of the great trading states to emerge in West Africa?

Accepted Answer

Ghana

Question 15

Which Japanese religion, still practiced today, includes a belief that people’s ancestors are present in the air around

Accepted Answer

Shinto

Question 16

After ____, Africa is the largest of the continents.

Accepted Answer

Asia

Question 17

Islam was slow to spread in East Africa because

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many of Islam’s beliefs conflicted with traditional African belief &custom

Question 18

Tang & Song, the old landed aristocracy was replaced by the ____ as the political and economic elite of Chinese society.

Accepted Answer

scholar-gentry

Question 19

The samurai lived by a strict code known as Bushido, which

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was similar to the code that medieval European knights lived by.

Question 20

Zimbabwe was the wealthiest and most powerful state in South Africa.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

After the death of Genghis Khan, the Mongol empire was divided among his sons into separate territories known as

Accepted Answer

khanates.

Question 22

Which of the following was the main religion of the Mali and Songhai?

Accepted Answer

Islam

Question 23

The temple of Angkor Wat

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combines Indian architectural techniques with native inspiration.

Question 24

The samurai of Japan were a new class of military servants whose purpose was to

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protect the security and property of their employers.

Question 25

Under whose reign did Songhai become the largest empire in African history?

Accepted Answer

Askia Dawud

Question 26

Technological developments during the Tang dynasty included

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gunpowder

Question 27

The official religion of Axum by around A.D. 300 was

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Christianity, which was first brought by shipwrecked Syrians.

Question 28

The Mongols, led by Genghis Khan,

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brought much of the Eurasian landmass under a single rule

Question 29

Music and storytelling were

Accepted Answer

used to pass along a community history in the absence of a written language

Unit 4 Review

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Unit 4 Review

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