Post-Classical I & D Test Review

Why were West African kingdoms like Ghana and Mali successful during the Post-Classical period?

• They enslaved people for the Atlantic slave trade with Britain.

• They built powerful forts and castles to protect against invasions.

• They adopted Islam and established trade relations with Muslims.

• They grew wealthy controlling routes around the Cape of Good Hope.

One contribution of Muslim scholarship in Spain to the intellectual life of Europe was

• the introduction of a movable-type printing press

• the creation of a unified body of Islamic and Christian law

• the preservation and translation of Greek and Roman texts

• the development of the Cyrillic alphabet for Slavic languages

Which factor contributed to favorable interactions among Muslim, Jewish, and Christian societies in Europe during the Middle Ages?

• A common written language

• A decline in farming production

• A mutual desire for profitable trade

• A religious expectation to recruit converts

The interaction between Muslims, Jews and Christians living in Europe during the Middle Ages facilitated the diffusion of-

• political rights

• scientific knowledge

• life threatening diseases

• new ideas about government

How did Muslim expansion into India differ from expansion across North Africa?

• Islam banned household and field slavery in North African societies.

• Islam recruited popular Hindu leaders to rule over local government.

• Islam replaced the strict structure of the Hindu caste system in India.

• Islam coexisted separately from the dominant Indian religion of Hinduism.

One factor contributing to a golden age of Indian society during Mughal rule was

• taxation on Hindu and non-Muslim pilgrims

• deciphering the ancient language of Sanskrit

• invasions by Turkish warlords from Central Asia

• religious toleration for Hindus and non-Muslims

In what way did the spread of the Black Death change the manorial system in Europe?

• The death of many knights led to an end of feudal warfare.

• Fear of the disease led many to stop attending Church services.

• Monarchs were blamed for spreading the disease and attacked.

• Population loss allowed peasants to leave the manor to seek jobs.

Why did the Crusades contribute to the end of the medieval era in Europe?

• Trade was revived leading to the decline of the manorial economy.

• Islamic fighters defeated Christian knights and took control of Europe.

• Christians split between Western Roman Catholicism and Eastern Greek Orthodoxy.

• European knights were given Church lands in exchange for fighting in the Holy Lands.

What political change was brought about by the fighting of the Hundred Years War?

• Peasants gained privileges by serving in new national armies.

• Powerful monarchies consolidated power as nation-states emerged.

• Knights built large independent armies to overthrow corrupt monarchies.

• Religious leaders emerged as powerful local leaders in France and England.

One factor that favored the spread of Islam to West Africa was

• trade along gold-salt routes

• Tang control of the Silk Road

• the vast expanse of the Sahara

• the use of Arabic in the Qur'an