Justinian realized that the economy of the empire also needed to grow so he welcomed traders into where?

Justinian wanted all people in the Byzantine Empire to follow what?

Some Byzantine emperors banned the use of what because they believed that it went against God’s laws?

The common language of the Empire was what??

The book Il Milione, which means “The Million,” became the most popular travelogue, or travel book, of his day. True or False?

The khanates were independent and each had its own leader and government however they remained loyal to who?

A stable government led to a tim of increased trade. Soon ideas as well as good were being exchanged between the East and the who?

Marco, Niccolo, and Maffeo stayed in where for 16 or 17 years?

Marco was sent by Kublai Khan to explore and report on distant parts of Asia. True or False?

Who were Nomads that lived in small clans, moving from place to place as they grazed their animals?

Who from time to time was a strong leader that brought some of the clans together?

Batu and his warriors did what everywhere they went?

Some parts of the desert are dunes of shifting sand. Other parts are dry plains called what?

Some grasses and plants grow on the steppes, but most is too dry to raise large crops. True or False?

Mecca also held an important place of worship. Each year Arabs from all over Arabia came to Mecca to worship at the Kaaba, a holy what?

Muhammad was unhappy about his tribe’s worship of many gods and idols. He often spent time deep in thought in a cave outside of where?

Mecca reported that on one visit to the cave the angel told him that he would become a messenger to humankind. Who was the messenger?

Muhammad’s family and close friends became the first Islams. True or False?

For a Muslim or follower Islam, Qur’an is God’s word. True or False?

In AD 630 Muslims captured the city of where? Muhammad ordered that all the idols in the Kaaba be destroyed.

The Islamic religion is based on five acts of worship known as the 5 what?