AP World History Chapter 9+10 Flashcards

11342165254	The dominant language of the Zenj was	Swahili	0
11342171175	Ile-Ife was a cultural center in	Nigeria	1
11342174978	Alafins were the kings of	Oyo	2
11342179924	Benin was a	city state	3
11342187644	The Bantu migration reached southern Africa in what century?	13th century	4
11342198264	Great Zimbabwe was named for its	monumental buildings	5
11342205104	The Mwene Mutapa was the ruler of	Great Zimbabwe	6
11342212567	The secret societies of west Africa served to	balance the influence of different groups	7
11342222631	Prior to the arrival of Islam, urbanization in Africa was concentrated	north of the Sahara	8
11342232858	What resulted from the empires of the Almoravids and Almohadis?	cultural bridge across the Sahara	9
11342240005	Around the year 1200, Ethiopia differed from the rest of sub-Saharan Africa because it was	Christian	10
11342249400	The impact of the spread of Islam in Africa was to	isolate Ethiopia	11
11342258788	What gave Ghana an advantage in African commerce?	position in the Sahel	12
11342263098	In relation to Ghana, Mali was a	successor state	13
11342271835	Ghana, Mali, and Songhay are shown to have been	typical of a pattern of state formation	14
11342278736	Under Sundiata. the Mali state was	strengthened and expanded	15
11342282942	In the case of Timbuktu, ________ expanded the city's status, which was initially based on its position as a center of ________.	the arrival of Islam / commerce	16
11342300500	As a historical source, the epic of Sundiata would be of most use to historians attempting to understand the	place of Sundiata in Manlinke culture	17
11342309275	What pattern was continued by Songhay?	states arising through control of Saharan trade routes	18
11342323990	Which group in the Sudan grew in power as a result of the spread of Islam in the region?	rulers	19
11342329543	In terms of social practices, in the Sudanic states Islamic customs	were modified by earlier local ones	20
11342339848	The cities of Zenj are best considered ______ in culture	international	21
11342350648	trade in Zenj was confined to the	coast	22
11342357796	What aspect of Zenj was reflected by the Swahili?	a mixed cultural heritage	23
11342365706	The capital of the Byzantine Empire was at	Constantinople	24
11342372660	What technologies did the Byzantine Empire borrow from China?	silk production	25
11356482098	The language of the Byzantine Empire was	Greek	26
11356489195	In the early Byzantine Empire, the greatest enemy to the east was	the Sassanian Empire	27
11356504136	In the sixth century, ____ tried to reconquer portions of the western Roman Empire	justinian	28
11356509264	Hagia Sophia was the great _______ of Constantinople.	church	29
11356515946	Belisarius is best known as a Byzantine	military leader	30
11356537800	Who moved into the Balkans in the early Byzantine Empire, pushing against the empire's northern border?	Slavs	31
11356541537	Greek fire is the name of a _________ used by the Byzantines.	weapon	32
11356560294	What was the name of the Slavic kingdom in the Balkans that posed a threat to the Byzantine Empire's northern border?	Bolgeria	33
11356564939	The use of the term tsar in Bulgaria recalled what earlier empire?	Roman	34
11356570640	Byzantine icons usually represented	Saints	35
11356577049	What occurred in 1054?	Schism within the Christian church	36
11356588912	The battle of Manzikert ended in a ____ victory	Arab	37
11356595642	Constantinople was captured in what century?	15th century	38
11356604327	In 1204, Constantinople was attacked by a Crusade led by the	Venetians	39
11356613099	Cyril and Methodius were influential in creating	Slavic alphabet	40
11356623997	Which eastern European nation had the highest concentration of Jews in the Middle Ages?	Poland	41
11356632513	What is traditionally credited with founding Russia's first dynasty?	Rurik	42
11356642935	What was the name of a key Scandinavian trading post in Dnieper?	Kiev	43
11356647143	Kievan Rus' is the given name to the	Russian State	44
11356655165	Which influential decision was undertaken by Vladimir I?	Conversion to Orthodox Christianity	45
11356661264	The boyars were Russian	landed nobles	46
11356672300	Which ruler used marriage alliances to tie the Russian ruling dynasty to other European ruling houses?	Yaroslav the wise	47
11356678528	The Tartars were	the Mongol invaders of Russia	48