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Unit 1 Vocab Quiz

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which dynasty governed much of the Islamic world from its capital in Baghdad beginning in 750 CE?

a)

Abbasid Caliphate

b)

Ottoman Empire

c)

Seljuk Turkic Empire

d)

Byzantine Empire

2.

What is the Arabic name for Spain, most of which was conquered by Arab and Berber forces between 711 and 718 CE?

a)

Al-Andalus

b)

Constantinople

c)

Kievan Rus

d)

Great Zimbabwe

3.

Which temple, built by the Angkor kingdom in the 12th century CE, is the largest religious structure in the premodern world?

a)

Notre Dame

b)

Hagia Sophia

c)

Angkor Wat

d)

Borobudur

4.

Which major state developed in what is now Mexico in the 14th and 15th centuries?

a)

Aztec Empire

b)

Maya Civilization

c)

Inca Empire

d)

Great Zimbabwe

5.

What does the term 'Bushido' refer to?

a)

A political-religious system in the Byzantine Empire

b)

A Chinese philosophy advocating moral example

c)

The 'way of the warrior' in Japanese samurai culture

d)

A Hindu movement involving intense adoration of a deity

6.

Which empire is known as the surviving eastern Roman Empire and one of the centers of Christendom during the medieval centuries?

a)

Roman Empire

b)

Byzantine Empire

c)

Ottoman Empire

d)

Seljuk Turkic Empire

7.

What is the term for the Chinese practice of tightly wrapping girls' feet to keep them small?

a)

Foot Binding

b)

Hangul

c)

Chu nom

d)

Bhakti Movement

8.

Which empire was the largest imperial state in the Western Hemisphere in the 15th and early 16th centuries?

a)

Aztec Empire

b)

Great Zimbabwe

c)

Inca Empire

d)

Maya Civilization

9.

Which branch of Christianity developed in the eastern part of the Roman Empire and gradually separated from the branch dominant in Western Europe?

a)

Eastern Orthodox Christianity

b)

Roman Catholic Church

c)

Protestantism

d)

Anglicanism

10.

What was the new capital for the eastern half of the Roman Empire, known for its cultural and strategic importance?

a)

Athens

b)

Alexandria

c)

Constantinople

d)

Rome