Unit 1 Vocab Quiz

Which dynasty governed much of the Islamic world from its capital in Baghdad beginning in 750 CE?

• Abbasid Caliphate

• Ottoman Empire

• Seljuk Turkic Empire

• Byzantine Empire

What is the Arabic name for Spain, most of which was conquered by Arab and Berber forces between 711 and 718 CE?

• Al-Andalus

• Constantinople

• Kievan Rus

• Great Zimbabwe

Which temple, built by the Angkor kingdom in the 12th century CE, is the largest religious structure in the premodern world?

• Notre Dame

• Hagia Sophia

• Angkor Wat

• Borobudur

Which major state developed in what is now Mexico in the 14th and 15th centuries?

• Aztec Empire

• Maya Civilization

• Inca Empire

• Great Zimbabwe

What does the term 'Bushido' refer to?

• A political-religious system in the Byzantine Empire

• A Chinese philosophy advocating moral example

• The 'way of the warrior' in Japanese samurai culture

• A Hindu movement involving intense adoration of a deity

Which empire is known as the surviving eastern Roman Empire and one of the centers of Christendom during the medieval centuries?

• Roman Empire

• Byzantine Empire

• Ottoman Empire

• Seljuk Turkic Empire

What is the term for the Chinese practice of tightly wrapping girls' feet to keep them small?

• Foot Binding

• Hangul

• Chu nom

• Bhakti Movement

Which empire was the largest imperial state in the Western Hemisphere in the 15th and early 16th centuries?

• Aztec Empire

• Great Zimbabwe

• Inca Empire

• Maya Civilization

Which branch of Christianity developed in the eastern part of the Roman Empire and gradually separated from the branch dominant in Western Europe?

• Eastern Orthodox Christianity

• Roman Catholic Church

• Protestantism

• Anglicanism

What was the new capital for the eastern half of the Roman Empire, known for its cultural and strategic importance?

• Athens

• Alexandria

• Constantinople

• Rome