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Worksheets1200 - 1450 America & Africa
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Which was NOT a method of state-building used by the Inca empire?
Travel infrastructure
Military threat
Bureaucratic officials
City-state independence
Which of the following is a potential LIMITATION for a primary source?
Author strongly motivated by a particular agenda
Author had firsthand knowledge of the events described
Document was produced during the events
Document captures multiple potential points of view
What is a griot?
Storyteller preserving African history
Muslim temple found in East Africa
Coin used as currency in Mali empire
Ship used by Indian Ocean merchants
Which society had the LEAST centralized authority?
Mali
Aztec/Mexica
Swahili coast
Inca
Which was NOT a method of state-building used by the Mexica/Aztec?
Collecting tribute from conquered people
Taxing trade with Muslim merchants
Using religion to justify power
Military superiority over neighboring peoples
Which is true of the study of American history prior to 1450?
We have lots of rich sources written before European arrival.
It's impossible to know anything about the Americas before colonization.
Historians focus most on societies with large states and empires.
Native peoples had no history before 1450.
By 1450, what portion of Africans lived in empires?
Almost all
Most
About half
Very few
Ibn Battuta's account of the Mali Empire particularly illustrates the empire's...
Strong networks of infrastructure
Support for and regulation of trade
Sophisticated bureaucracy
Association of the emperor with God
If we only start the history of Africa and the Americas after 1450, we make it seem like...
They've dominated world history since the beginning.
They were totally uncivilized until the introduction of Islamic culture.
Their history begins with European colonization and the slave trade.
The Industrial Revolution never would have happened without Europe.
What is Eurocentrism?
Understanding the world only in relation to European "superiority."
European religions and cultural traditions that spread around the world.
Belief that Central Europe was more important that Western or Eastern Europe.
Europeans' ability to dominate the global economy before 1450.
