Middle Ages - Middle East & Africa Review

Which statement about the Arabian Peninsula is most accurate?

• It was very isolated from other parts of the world and had very little economic activity.

• It developed as a center of feudalism in the Middle Ages.

• The development of trade routes connected it to Europe, Africa and Asia during the Middle Ages

• It had a large fertile river valley that allowed food production and population growth.

Nomadic people of the the Middle East and Arabian Peninsula who lived in tribes and often worked as trade guides.

• Muslims

• Arabs

• Bedouins

• Bantu

Mecca was an important city on the Arabian Peninsula because of trade and

• religious pilgrimages people made there.

• The fertile farmland that surrounded it.

• It was where the leaders of Christianity, Islam and Judaism lived.

• The large library full of Islamic texts that was built there.

The religion of ​ (a)   was able to spread throughout the Middle East due to ​ (b)   and the ​ ​ ​ ​ (c)   of Islamic empires.

• Islam
• trade
• expansion
• Christianity
• enforced
• Crusades
• desert
• Bedouins

A period of great achievements in Islamic culture, science and technology between 800 and 1100 is referred to as the ___________ ____.

What event helped spread Muslim achievements and products to Europe during the later Middle Ages?

• The Black Death

• The Crusades

• Feudalism

• The Fall of Constantinople

The region of Africa located south of the Sahara Desert is referred to as

• South Africa

• The Middle East

• The Bantu

• Sub Saharan

The term _________ refers to the early migratory people of Sub Saharan Africa and the various related languages they spoke.

Why is the Bantu migration so important in the study of Africa?

• During the Bantu migration, the people refused to intermarry with Arabs or Muslims

• The Bantu migration brought language and iron tools across Africa and allowed for better living conditions.

• The migration was a force of action by the African government in the North

• The migration led to the first settlements in the Sahara

The spread of Bantu ​ (a)   techniques and ​ (b)   helped increase the ​ (c)   supply and population of Sub Saharan Africa.

• agricultural
• tools
• food
• religion
• language
• products
• trading