Q1 Checkpoint Review

What effect did the Umayyad dynasty have on European kingdoms?

• The Umayyads conquered most of Europe.

• The Umayyads teamed up with the Abbasids to invade France.

• The Umayyads brought Islamic beliefs to Europe.

Based on this travel account of the kingdom of Mali in Africa, what was Ibn Battuta’s view of Islam and the people of Mali?

• He had a negative view of Islam and disliked the people of Mali for following it.

• He had a positive view of Islam but believed the Mali people did not follow it properly.

• He had a positive view of Islam and liked the people of Mali for following it.

What essentially caused the Islamic Golden Age?

• construction of elaborate mosques

  
  

• pilgrimages to holy sites

• trade with faraway countries

What does this excerpt show about the city of Baghdad during the height of the Arab Empire?

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  It was highly advanced.

• It had few industries for manufacturing.

• It was agriculturally based.

Islamic advances in mathematics include the further development of

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  the use of zero.

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  algebra.

• plane geometry.

The Shia Muslims are different from Sunni Muslims because Shia Muslims

• accept only descendants of Ali as true rulers of Islam.

• follow a strict interpretation of the Quran.

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  have ancestral roots in Africa rather than the Middle East.

How were Islamic scholars able to learn from the ideas of the ancient Greeks?

• They hired Greek teachers to work at their universities.

• They traveled to Greece to learn from philosophers there.

• They translated ancient Greek writings into Arabic.

The primary purpose of the manorial system was to provide an economic structure that allowed lords to

• uphold the local traditions.

• pursue the art of war.

• grow their own food.

Which statement supports the conclusion that peasants had little control over their daily lives?

• They lived in small cottages made with timber and straw.

• They required permission to leave the lord’s estate.

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  They relied on the late summer harvest for survival.

The lord-vassal relationship

• was governed by strict authoritarian rules.

• required military service.

• implied a sense of servitude.