1)What comprised pre-Islamic Arabic society?

  1. Hunter-gatherers
  2. Migrant scholars
  3. Agriculturalists
  4. Nomadic tribes

2)The Almoravids and Almohads are significant because:

  1. They help to spread a strict form of Islam to the Iberian Peninsula and along the Western coast of Africa
  2. They were groups of Muslim traders who brought Islam to Southeast Asia
  3. They are dynasties of African rulers who converted to Islam
  4. They are groups of scholars who had dramatically different views towards non-Muslim knowledge

3)Jenne and Timbuktu are significant because

  1. They are large and cosmopolitan cities in Africa, directly challenging the idea that African cities even during this period are unsophisticated and poor
  2. They are some of the few major cities in Africa that developed free from Islam
  3. They are the sites of major battles between Muslims and native Africans
  4. They represent the African trend of developing highly fortified cities

4)All of the following statements are true about Ghana, Mali, and Songhay EXCEPT

  1. They are three important Sudanic states
  2. They participated heavily in coastal trade
  3. They had great military leaders which aided in each empire’s regional dominance
  4. Their rulers enforced their power and authority through Muslim dominance

5)Charles Martel’s Battle of Tours of 732 is significant because

  1. It kept Muslims confined to the Iberian Peninsula
  2. It ended in the complete expulsion of Muslims and Jews from Europe
  3. It marked a key moment in European military weakness
  4. It completely severed trade relationships between the Western Europeans and the Middle East

6)The Abbasid caliphate saw all of the following areas improve in the Abbasid Golden Age EXCEPT:

  1. Abbasidian political theories
  2. Scientific discoveries
  3. Islamic literature
  4. Muslim architecture

7)What integrates sub-Saharan Africa to the rest of the world?

  1. Knowledge of classical antiquity
  2. Islam
  3. Christianity
  4. Military battles for dominance

8)Which of the following statements is FALSE about stateless societies?

  1. They are centralized forms of power
  2. Power is held by a council or families
  3. It is difficult to resist external pressures under a stateless society
  4. There is generally no undertaking of large building projects with stateless societies

9)How does the Abbasid Caliphate end?

  1. A new family of Arabic Muslims, the Umayyads, take over at the Battle of the River Zab
  2. Internal political rivalries result in the murder of the final caliph
  3. The last Abbasid caliph and his family is murdered by the Mongols in 1258
  4. The Seljuk Turks and Buyids of Persia weaken the caliphate enough that eventually the last Abbasid caliph resigns

10)Who primarily converts to Islam in Africa?

  1. All people; when a king converted, he mandated that his people convert as well.
  2. Traders primarily; this gave them good connections to other Muslim traders
  3. Peasants only; the messages of Islam did not resonate with the elite
  4. Mainly the elite; the common people often maintained their own indigenous religions

11)The group in control of Jerusalem at the time of the Crusades was the

  1. Persians
  2. Buyids of Persia
  3. Umayyads
  4. Seljuk Turks

12)Which of the following was NOT a consequence of the Moorish occupation of Spain?

  1. The Moors brought advanced knowledge of medicine and science
  2. The Moors left behind a distinct artistic and architectural style
  3. The Moors persecuted Jewish scholars and professionals
  4. The Moors’ expansion worried Europeans, who eventually fought Moors

13)Which of the following is true of the Abbasid Caliphate?

  1. It presided over the golden age of Islamic culture
  2. It forbade Jews and Christians to practice their religions
  3. It provided powerful and skilled defenses against Crusaders
  4. It established separate Muslim states in India and the Western Sahara

14)Like Mali, Great Zimbabwe’s wealth came from

  1. Regional and interregional trade
  2. Agriculture and farming
  3. Working as mercenaries for larger empires
  4. Herding cattle and selling goods at local markets

15)All of the following are characteristics of Islam EXCEPT:

  1. A monotheistic belief in one god that must be worshipped as the only god
  2. A belief in community of believers unified by their faith above all else
  3. A tradition of passing down the central teachings of their faith orally
  4. A belief in the importance of prayer, fasting, and charity

16)In contrast to Islam’s arrival in West Africa and the Swahili coast, its introduction to India was

  1. More likely to influence only the elite
  2. More violent
  3. Less disruptive to the existing social structure
  4. More acceptable to the conquered elite

17)Like the earlier Han and Roman Empires, the Abbasid Dynasty weakened because of the difficulty of

  1. Controlling ambitious religious leaders
  2. Meeting challenges from powerful cities on the borders of the empire
  3. Building powerful navies to protect overseas possessions
  4. Governing a vast, multi-ethnic domain

18)Which of the following technologies directly stimulated trade on the Indian Ocean routes?

  1. The compass
  2. The lateen sail
  3. The junk
  4. The caravel

19)The caliph

  1. Always ruled over one extended area of land from Spain to India
  2. Was a position that dissolved a short time after Muhammad’s death
  3. Was a position passed down through one family that traced its roots to Mecca
  4. Was considered to be the successor of Muhammad as well as a political leader

20)Which of the following best describes the spread of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa?

  1. Immediate conquest of the entire region
  2. Systematic takeover of port cities
  3. The absence of indigenous religions
  4. Gradual conversion in various parts, mostly resulting from trade

21)By 600-1450 CE, coastal cities in East Africa spoke the Swahili language, which blended

  1. Sudanic and Ethiopian influences
  2. Egyptian and Persian influences
  3. Bantu and Persian influences
  4. Bantu and Arabic influences