AP World History Unit 1 Vocabulary Review

These inventions allowed traders to travel further across the seas in their ships, and expand trade into new territories.

• lateen sail

• sextant

• outrigger canoes

• astrolabe

Spain as controlled by the Moors was also known as ______.

• Al-Shabaab

• Al-Andalus

• Al-hambra

• Al-khali

This city was built in East Africa and was significant because no mortar was used.

• Great Mombasa

• Great Zanzibar

• Great Zimbabwe

• Great Ziggurat

Mosques built across Dar al Islam served to:

• force people to convert

• showcase the spiritual importance of Islam

• provide shelter from attacks

• erase Jewish and Christian cultures

Unlike other parts of the world in 1200, women in sub-Saharan Africa were often less restricted because their societies were ____

• matrilineal

• patriarchal

• polandronous

• poligamist

In religion, when an attempt is made to combine elements of two religions, it is called ____.

• polygot

• symphonic

• harmonization

• syncretism

In Europe in the Middle Ages, the peasants on the bottom had virtually no choice in their lives and work, and were also called ____.

• slaves

• serfs

• peons

• slaves

The numbers of peasants to work and farm was dramatically decreased due to:

• diseases like the black death

• factories in the cities were better employers

• landlords/nobles kicking them off the land

• expansion of political freedoms gave them more choices

This was the name for the road system built by the Inca that allowed them to better govern their large empire.

• Carpa Nan

• Popol Vuh

• Machu Picchu

• Ollantaytambo

St. Thomas Aquinas was famous for promoting secularism & scholasticism, where he encouraged:

• absolute obedience to the church

• attempted to reconcile Aristotle with church thought

• closure of Benedictine and Franciscan monasteries

• rejection of advances in science