World History Unit 5 Quiz

What political change was brought about by the fighting of the Hundred Years War?

• Peasants gained privileges by serving in new national armies.

• Powerful monarchies consolidated power as nation-states emerged

• Religious leaders emerged as powerful local leaders in France & England.

• Knights built large independent armies to overthrow corrupt monarchies.

Why did the Crusades contribute to the end of the Medieval era in Europe?

• European knights were given Church lands in exchange for fighting in the Holy Lands.

• Christians split between Western Roman Catholicism & Eastern Greek Orthodoxy.

• Islamic fighters defeated Christian knights & took control of Europe.

• Trade was revived leading to the decline of the manorial economy.

In what way did the Black Death change the manorial system in Europe?

• The death of many knights led to feudal warfare.

• Population loss allowed peasants to leave the manot to seek jobs.

• Fear ot the Black Death led many to stop attending church services.

• Monarchs were blamed to spreading disease & atacked.

One impact on Asia of the Tang dynasty reunifying China was

• The diffusion of Mandarin culture to Korea & Vietnam.

• The closing of the Silk road to Europe.

• Spread of Buddhism to Japan & Korea.

• The collapse of Confucianism in East Asia.

The spread of Islam brought political changes to Southwest Asia by

• building canals, roads & hospitals in cities such as Alexandria.

• establishing satellite states in the areas conquered by the Muslim armies.

• unifying North Africa, Arabia, Persia & Asia Minor under a centralized authority.

• converting Arabs, Christians, Persians & Jews to Islam to avoid paying taxes.

How were the advances of the Muslim world preserved for future generations?

• Libraries & institutions such as the House of Wisdom stored information.

• Scribes & monks recorded & saved multiple copies of the information.

• Christian scholars traveled to Islamic universities to study.

• People in other areas learned the information through cultural diffusion.

One result of Mongol expansion across Eurasia during the Middle Ages was

• the revival of art & literature.

• a birth of new religions.

• a vast, unified empire of many cultures.

• a chaotic, unstable political climate.

One factor that favored the spread of Islam to West Africa was

• Tang control of the Silk road.

• trade along the gold/salt routes.

• the vast expanse of the Sahara desert.

• The use of Arabic in the Qur'an.

In the 15th century, the Ming Dynasty excelled at

• weaponry

• clock making

• moveable-type

• shipbuilding.

One factor that shaped the practice of slavery in the Islamic world was

• a prohibition of enslaving fellow Muslims.

• The need for manual labor on the sugar cane plantations of the Sahara desert.

• the Jewish tradition of freeing injured enslaved people.

• enslaving only non compliant Muslims.