St. Wkly. / Week 9: Southwest Asia Sites of Encounter

What was a risk of traveling through Cairo in the 14th century?

• contracting Covid

• contracting the bubonic plague

• getting robbed by pirates

• your camels might not have enough water

Al-jabr created a system of mathematics that was originally developed to help people ______.

• to teach people how to pray in Mecca

• with lawsuits and inheritances

• with irrigation

• to cure the plague

Which statement is true?

• When people move, they often carry their culture, ideas, religion and values.

• There was a heavy French influence in Cairo in the 11th century.

• Muslims believe in 4 Pillars

• When people move, they always travel in caravans overland.

Which of the following was a major rival of the Sasanian Empire?

• The Persian Empire

• The Roman Empire

• The Muslim Empire

• The Byzantine Empire

Who developed the Sicilian kingdom?

• Italian Turks

• Italian Sheikhs

• Italian Popes

• Italian-born Norman settlers

What is another name for the trading that took place between Persian, the Arabian Peninsula and Southwestern Asia?

• the Trans Pacific Trade Pipeline

• Afroeurasian trade network

• the Sicilian Bank and Trade

• the Baghdad Express

Mark the true statement about Emperor Constantine.

• Constantine endorsed Christianity.

• Constantine forbid Christianity.

• Constantine was a secret Muslim.

• Constantine was Postmaster General in Normandy.

The first postal system was developed ____________.

• by Italian Normans

• by Italian Sheikhs

• by the Byzantine Empire

• by the Persian Empire

What is a souk?

• a type of camel for travel

• the head of the Muslim church

• a trading marketplace

• a king

How did irrigation networks change the way cities grew?

• People did not like irrigation because it was developed for farmers to grow crops and water their livestock, not for people in cities to use.

• Irrigation systems were shared and throughout areas that got a lot of rain.

• Places with irrigation became attractive to people settling an area, so cities grew where they had established irrigation systems.

• People at this time thought that bringing people water through irrigation systems was like magic and they were scared of it.