Chapters 11-15
264330893 | What new threat to northwestern India emerged in the seventh century? | Muslims | 0 | |
264330894 | Which of the following developments did not occur following the fall of the Han dynasty? | A Hsiung-nu dynasty was established in northern China. | 1 | |
264330895 | What was the basic social group of the bedouins? | kin-related clan groups | 2 | |
264330896 | What clan was responsible for the foundation of Mecca? | Umayyad | 3 | |
264330897 | The religious shrine that was the focus of an annual truce in pre-Islamic Mecca was the | Ka'ba | 4 | |
264330898 | The Ridda Wars were fought to.... | to suppress rival prophets and to restore the unity of Islam. | 5 | |
264330899 | Put the conquerors of Baghdad in the correct chronological order. | Buyids, Seljuk Turks, Mongols | 6 | |
264330900 | In what way was the conquest of Baghdad by the Seljuk Turks beneficial to Islam? | The Turks restored the ability of the empire to meet the challenges of Fatimid Egypt and the Byzantine Empire. | 7 | |
264330901 | Which of the following was a literary figure during the Abbasid Empire? | Omar Khayyam | 8 | |
264330902 | How did Islam and Hinduism differ? | Islam stressed the egalitarianism of all believers, while Hinduism embraced a caste-based social system. | 9 | |
264330903 | What was the first region of India conquered by the Muslims in 711? | Sind | 10 | |
264330904 | Sufis proved to be effective missionaries for Islam in southern Asia, because | they shared much with Indian mystics and wandering ascetics. | 11 | |
264330905 | Stateless societies in Africa were... | organized around kinship or other forms of obligation and lacking the concentration of political power and authority. | 12 | |
264330906 | What kingdom arose in the Sudan following the decline of Ghana in 1076? | Mali | 13 | |
264330907 | Which of the following monarchs was referred to as Mali's "Lion Prince?" | Sundiata | 14 | |
264330908 | Specialists who mastered the oral traditions of the Malinke and by knowing the past were considered excellent advisors to the kings were called..... | griots | 15 | |
264330909 | What accounted for the downfall of Songhay? | invasion by a Moroccan Muslim army equipped with firearms | 16 | |
264330910 | Zanhi was the Arabic term for.... | the East African coast. | 17 | |
264330911 | What was typical of the African societies not affected by either Islam or Christianity? | lacked writing systems | 18 | |
264330912 | Which of the following regions was typified by city-state organization? | Yoruba | 19 | |
264330913 | Juula are.... | African traders associated with the Mali Empire | 20 |