Lesson 5 Review 2024–2025

Identify the causes of decline as "internal" or "external."

Groups:

(a) Internal Causes of Decline

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(b) External Causes of Decline

• high taxes

• power struggles

• spread of disease

• foreign invasions

• peasant revolts

Temujin was the real name of __________.

The period of peace and security under Mongol rule was called the __________.

How did camel caravans improve overland trade routes?

Answer explanation

Sample answer: Camel caravans made it easier to transport goods across desert regions, increasing the efficiency of overland trade on routes like the Silk Road.

Explain one way that the expansion of trade networks influenced the spread of religions across Afro-Eurasia.

Answer explanation

Sample answer: Trade networks facilitated the movement of religious missionaries and traders, allowing religions like Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam to spread across regions. For example, Buddhism spread throughout Asia along the Silk Road.

What role did the bubonic plague play in the fall of the Mongol Empire?

Answer explanation

Sample answer: The bubonic plague, also known as the Black Death, spread across the Mongol Empire, killing large portions of the population. This disrupted trade and weakened the empire’s ability to maintain control over its vast territory, contributing to its decline.

Put the following eras of rule in China in order

• Sui Dynasty

• Tang Dynasty

• Period of disunity and warring kingdoms, beginning 3rd century C.E.

• Han Dynasty

Answer explanation

Han Dynasty: 206 BCE to 220 CE

Smaller warring kingdoms: 220 to 589 CE

Sui Dynasty: 589 to 618 CE

Tang Dynasty: 618 CE to 907 CE

Put the following in chronological order.

• A period of decline in Europe known as the Dark Ages

• Missionaries from the Byzantine Empire bring Orthodox Christianity to Russia

• Emperor Charlemagne establishes the Holy Roman Empire in Europe

• Emperor Diocletian splits the Roman Empire into Western and Eastern halves

• Emperor Constantine moves the capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantium

Answer explanation

Diocletian splits the empire: 293 CE

Constantine moves the capital: 324 CE

Dark Ages begin: 476 CE (fall of Western Roman Empire)

Charlemagne establishes HRE: 800 CE

Orthodox Christianity in Russia: c. 1000 CE

The Gupta Empire fell because of invasions by the​ (a)   .

• White Huns
• Germanic tribes
• Mongol tribes
• Sassanids
• Muslims

Emperor Diocletian split the ​ (a)   Empire into eastern and western halves.

• Roman
• Byzantine
• Han
• Gupta
• Muslim
• Sassanid