9th Final Exam Review #5: Plague, Crusades, Renaissance, Reforma

One reason why the Mongols conquered this area of land was

• mountains prevented expansion to the north

• deserts prevented conquest to the east

• they wanted to control the Silk Road trade routes

Identify an effect of the historical development depicted in the map above

• Trade between the Middle East and China increased.

• Mongol culture heavily influenced the Middle East and Europe

The geographic context of this map is that the Seljuk [Seljuq] Turks

[Geographic context must include what is happening, where, and why]

• invaded the Byzantine Empire

• conquered trade routes in Africa

• invaded the Byzantine Empire to control trade routes & the Holy Land

• freed people under Byzantine control

Pope Urban II promised __________ to Christian knights who fought to take the Holy Land from the Muslims.

• money

• fame

• land

• an eternity in Heaven

Then, just as the Crusaders had been inspired at least in part by commercial motives, those 200 years of constant coming and going between East and West obviously gave trade a tremendous boost...

Which claim is best supported by the excerpt above?

• Trade between Europe and the Middle East decreased due to the Crusades

• 1. Trade between Europe and the Middle East increased as a result of the Crusades.

The information shown on this map suggests that the Black Death spread to Europe as a result of contact with:

• merchants from western Africa

• traders from Asia

The Renaissance first occurred in the Italian city-states because they

• controlled trade routes & traded with the Ottoman Empire

• isolated themselves and only traded with neighboring city-states due to the Plague

Based on this map, what is a valid conclusion about the Black Death?

• People of North Africa, Europe, and Asia were affected by the disease.

• The outbreak spread from west to east

Which claim is supported by the diagram above?

• 1. Most innovation in the past took place in the Middle East

• Modern day technology is based on innovations from the past

Ideas like Martin Luther's 95 Theses spread quickly throughout Europe due to which invention?

• gunpowder

• stirrups

• the printing press

• catapults