Benchmark 2 Review: Arabia and Africa

Place the following items in the correct location on the map.

a

b

c

d

e

f

Caspian Sea

Mediterranean Sea

Yangtze River

Persian Gulf

Caribbean Sea

Arabian Sea

English Channel

Arabian Peninsula

Red Sea

Djenne

Place the following in the correct categories.

Groups:

(a) Islam

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(b) Shinto

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(c) Buddhism

,

(d) Ancestor Worship

• No Holy Book

• Spread through China after reunification

• Quran, Sunnah

• Mohammed

• Polytheistic

• Monotheism

• No Key Person

• Animism/Kami

• Five Pillars

• native beliefs of Africa before Islam was introduced

Which TWO of the following helped Islam spread following the death of Muhammad?

• The Arabic language was enforced by the government in areas conquered by Muslims.

• Islamic culture brought new inventions and medicines to areas they conquered.

• Islam was spread by monks who created illuminated manuscripts and preserved the Latin language.

• Islamic pilgrims would travel to their holy city of Constantinople on the hajj and convert others.

Which of these is an example of Islamic art?

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Match the person with their description.

• Justinian

• Mongol ruler who conquered the Song Dynasty

• Mansa Musa

• Byzantine Emperor who regained lost territory, codified laws, gave women rights

• Mehmed II

• Japanese regent who created a constitution based on ideas from China and Korea

• Prince Shotoku

• Malian emperor who established Timbuktu as a center of learning and trade after his hajj

• Kublai Khan

• Ottoman sultan who captured Constantinople

What TWO effects did the trade route in the image have on Europe?

• Many new inventions and technologies were brought by traders.

• Arabia and became a center of trade and culture with so many people passing through.

• Timbuktu became a center of culture and knowledge due to the salt-gold trade.

• Goods and ideas were shipped all throughout Eurasia and Africa.

Place the following in the correct place on the map.

a

b

c

d

e

f

Constantinople

Djenne

Arabian Sea

Mediterranean Sea

Gulf of Guinea

Sahara Desert

North Atlantic Drift

Mecca

Black Sea

Timbuktu

Which TWO of the following are true about West Africa?

• They believed in animism, where spirits could impact the people and nature and needed rituals to appease them.

• The empires and trade centers grew wealthy through trade across the Sahara Desert.

• Muhammed started Islam in the holy city of Timbuktu, leaded West Africa to be an Islamic state.

• The capital city of Djenne was conquered by the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II.

traditional West African storyteller who preserved their histories and laws

(a)  

What did people in West Africa do to keep the deities (spirits) from harming them?​ ​ (a)  

• performed rituals
• practiced the 5 pillars
• prayed to the kami
• went on Crusades