Unit 1: 2nd World System Review v2

The Mongols

• facilitated the spread of the plague with the creation of its Silk Road empire.

• stopped the spread of the plague to China, but allowed it to decimate the West.

• stopped the spread of the plague to the West, but allowed it to decimate China.

• captured Constantinople, which was the entry point for Black Death to the West.

• were immune from the Yersinia pestis.

The Mongols were able to maintain control in China for an extended period because they

• were, under Genghis Khan, aggressive traders virtually obsessed with making profits.

• ruled China, by means of the Yuan Dynasty, for four hundred and thirty-seven years.

• established their capital in China at Nanjing.

• destroyed the Chinese economy by outlawing all trade.

• made use of Chinese institutions in governing China.

Genghis Khan was part of which Dynasty?

• Tang

• Song

• Ming

• Yuan

• Qin

All of the following were motives for the Crusades except

• the desire for military adventure.

• religious fervor.

• the aim to increase religious toleration between Muslims and Christians.

• the desire to gain riches and land.

• to allow the pope to assume the leadership in liberating the Holy Land.

The "People’s Crusade" was led by

• a landed noble inspired by the pope.

• a knight who had hopes for grandeur.

• a peasant who preached vision of Jerusalem.

• a monk who claimed support from God.

• a mob with no clear leader.

Abu-Lughod's 2nd World System was primarily facilitated through

• battles.

• trade.

• poetry.

• universities.

• conquest.

The Koran, or Qur'an,

• is the book containing the holy scriptures of Zoroastrianism.

• contained the guidelines by which a Hindu was to live.

• was derived from the revelations of Muhammad.

• is the holy text of Buddhism

Caliph (or khalifa) literally means

• prophet.

• judge.

• warrior.

• successor.

The following were true about the trans-Sahara caravan trade except

• the Arab introduction of the camel into Africa enabled this trade to greatly increase.

• cultural exchanges were stimulated by the growth of the caravan activity.

• it enabled the Sahara region to become a major crossroad of international commerce.

• it brought the first Islamic traders to central Africa in the first century BCE

The king of Mali who went on a famous pilgrimage to Mecca in the fourteenth century was Mansa Musa.

• True

• False