Yearly Review 1 Units 1-8

Accomplishments of China during the Golden Age of Song

• invention of moveable type/wood block printing increased literacy, education, and availability of books

• invented the thermometer

• invention of a grape press

• invention of coal

Korea and Japan were influenced by

• China's calligraphy language

• China's ship building

• Mongolian religions

What peninsula is east of the Gobi Desert in China?

• Italian

• Korean

• Arabian

Which of these did Justinian not do?

• regained land controlled by Roman Empire

• Height of the Eastern Byzantine Empire in the 1500s AD/CE

• Simplified Roman Law

• Became a Muslim

What city did the Muslims envy for years and were UNABLE to take it over until 1453?

• Jerusalem

• Constantinople

• Mecca

• Hastings

As the Ottoman Empire grew larger and the Byzantine grew smaller, what would have been an effect?

• Muslims would have started to influence the regions in and around Constantinople

• Muslims would have started to influence the regions around Italy

• Muslims would have started to influence the regions around Normandy, France

Mansa Musa did all of the following EXCEPT what?

• gave away tons of gold making Mali famous

• spread the influence of Islam in North and West Africa

• created Islamic mosques, libraries, and university

• became a Christian influence in West Africa

West Africans had oral traditions before Islam came to the region. Not all West Africans became Islamic. Their oral tradition would have been passed down through whom?

• griots

• grits

• shaman

• imans

After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, Europeans developed feudalism and manorialism to survive. What is a characteristic of these in West Europe during the dark ages?

• it was a creation of a social and economic system to provide food and safety for the people

• it was a type of democracy giving all the power to people to choose their leaders

• it was a theocracy run by the Orthodox Church

The Magna Carta did ALL of the following EXCEPT what?

• created RULE OF LAW where even the king must obey the laws

• gave people the right to an independent judiciary

• gave people protection from unlawful imprisonment

• caused EVERY king and queen to allow elections from then on