H2 TEST 2 SPRING 2020 (BYZANTINE EMPIRE & MIDDLE AGES)

Base your answer to the question on the photograph and on your knowledge of social studies.

The cultural contributions shown in these photographs were developed during the

• Mesopotamian civilizations

• Pax Romana

• Tang dynasty

• Byzantine Empire

Base your answer to the question on the graphic organizer and on your knowledge of social studies.

Which item best completes this graphic organizer?

• Development of the Wheel

• Preservation of Greek and Roman Culture

• Creation of the Compass

• Utilization of Cuneiform

Base your answer to the question on the map and on your knowledge of social studies.

Based on the information provided by this map, which statement about Constantinople is accurate?

• Africans traded more goods in Constantinople than in any other area.

• Constantinople was a city located on the Mediterranean Sea.

• Gold was the primary commodity that China sent to Constantinople.

• Constantinople was an important trading center.

Base your answer to the question on the quotation and on your knowledge of social studies.

...The circumference of the city of Constantinople is eighteen miles, one-half of the city being bounded by the continent, the other by the sea, two arms of which meet here; the one a branch or outlet of the Russian, the other of the Spanish sea. Great stir and bustle prevails [dominates] at Constantinople in consequence of the conflux [meeting] of many merchants, who resort thither [ come there], both by land and by sea, from all parts of the world for purposes of trade, including merchants from Babylon and from Mesopotamia, from Media and Persia, from Egypt and Palestine, as well as from Russia, Hungary, Patzinakia, Budia, Lombardy and Spain. In this respect the city is equalled only by Bagdad, the metropolis of the Mahometans...

–Rabbi Benjamin of Tudela

Manuel Komroff, ed., Contemporaries of Marco Polo,

Boni Liverigh

This author would most likely agree with the idea that the

• size of Constantinople limited trade

• cites of western Europe were more impressive than Constantinople

• location of Constantinople contributed to its prosperity

• government of Constantinople failed to provide order

The term apprentice is most closely associated with the

• encomienda system of Latin America.

• guild system of Europe in the Middle Ages.

• civil service system of China during the Tang dynasty.

• caste system of India.

During the early European feudal period, subsistence agriculture and economic self-sufficiency are most commonly associated with the

• manorial system

• enclosure movement

• growth of commerce

• introduction of wheeled vehicles

Base your answer to the question on the chart and on your knowledge of social studies.

What is the best title for this chart?

• Role of the Church

• Feudal Obligations

• Knights' Code of Chivalry

• Rules for Guild Membership

Base your answer to the question on the illustration and on your knowledge of social studies.

The illustration represents a society based on

• social class

• educational achievement

• accumulated wealth

• political ability

Base your answer to the question on the graphic organizer and on your knowledge of social studies.

Which title best completes this graphic organizer?

• Improvements Under the Tokugawa

• Achievements of Medieval Europe

• Developments in Ancient Ghana

• Changes Resulting From the Counter Reformation

Which document limited the power of the English monarchy during the Middle Ages?

• Magna Carta

• Twelve Tables

• Justinian Code

• Rig Veda