Name______________________________________
3rd Quarter
Be able to locate on a map:
Greece
Aegean Sea
Ionian Sea
Anatolia
Italy
Mediterranean Sea
The Ganges
Hindu Kush Mountains
Himalayas
Huang He
Yangtze
Islamic Empire
Test Review
Important Architectural Places to
know (which empire, kingdom, or
place built):
Hagia Sophia
Pantheon
Coliseum
Forum
Dome of the Rock
Know the following vocabulary
words (define or find in your
notebook):
Prehistory
Cuneiform
Ten Commandments
Alphabet
Monotheism
Polytheism
Karma
Yin and yang
Shi’a
Sunni
Justinian Code
Triumvirate
Manor (manorialism)
Know the following people (who
they are and what important
thing they did):
Siddhartha Gautama
Constantine
Theodosius
Hannibal
Charles Martel
Justinian
Questions:
26. What were the two most important good traded in
1. What are the 5 pillars of Islam?
West Africa?
2. How did Islam spread into Africa, Asia, and Spain?
27. Timbuktu was a center for?
3. What language spread with Islam?
28. What African kingdom was Christian?
4. What is the holiest city in the Islamic Empire?
29. What African civilizations were located in Sub-Saharan
5. Who is the founder of Islam?
Africa (south of the Sahara) and along the Niger River?
6. In order, list the capitals of the Islamic empire.
30. Why was Persia a successful empire?
7. How did Baghdad fall?
31. Why were the Macedonians able to conquer the
8. What do Christianity, Islam and Judaism have in
Greeks?
common?
32. What two Greek city-states united against Persia?
9. Where did Arabic numbers originate?
33. What type of government did Sparta and Athens have?
10. Why was the Silk Road built?
34. What were the Roman laws called?
11. What were the contributions of the Mauryan Empire? 35. What most influenced Rome’s early development?
12. What were the contributions (inventions or goods) of
36. Who were in the First and Second Triumvirate?
classical China?
37. Why did the Roman Empire fall?
13. What country inhabits an archipelago?
38. What was the Pax Romana?
14. What two countries influenced Japan?
39. Why was the Cyrillic alphabet created?
15. What two religions coexist in Japanese society?
40. Where did the first Homo sapiens originate?
16. What are the achievements of the Incan empire?
41. What types of tools did Paleolithic man use?
17. What is the location of the Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas? 42. What effect did the invention of agriculture have on
18. What do the Mayans, Incans, and Aztecs have in
the life of early man?
common?
43. Describe the Neolithic Era.
19. What were Mayan pyramids used for?
44. List the rivers and location of each river valley
20. What culture did the Byzantine Empire preserve?
civilization.
21. How did Eastern Orthodox Christianity spread?
45. What do all early (first) civilizations have in common?
22. What are the contributions of the Byzantine Empire?
46. Why was feudalism created?
23. How was Byzantine culture and religion spread into
47. What was the main unifying force in the Middle Ages?
Russia and Eastern Europe?
47. Describe the Early Empires (Phoenicians, Persians,
24. What religion was centered in Constantinople?
Assyrians)
25. How did the Byzantine Empire end?