Accelerated World History

November 11-12, 2015

Warm Up – November 11-12, 2015

Agenda

• Reminders:

•What does Islam mean in Arabic?

• “Submission to the will of Allah”

•What do Muslims believe about Muhammad?

• He was the last and greatest of the prophets.

•What division of Islam believes that only a relative of Muhammad is qualified to be a caliph?

• Shi’a (or Shi’ite)

• Toward what city do Muslims pray?

•Mecca

•What are the Five Pillars of Islam?

• The major duties required of all Muslims

•Where were significant conquests made between 632 and 661?

• Asia & Africa

• By what year had Islam extended south of the Equator?

• 1200 AD (CE)

•What city was in lands under Muslim control at the time of the death of Muhammad?

•Mecca

• In which faith(s) are spiritual leaders required to remain unmarried?

• Catholicism

•Which faith(s) make no efforts to convert nonbelievers?

• Judaism

• How do Muslims lead a moral life?

• Through submission to God’s will

•Who did Muslims consider the "people of the book"?

• Jews and Christians

•What did the Sufis do?

• They led a life of poverty and devotion.

• The Qur'an and what other work form the shari'a, or body of Islamic law?

• The Sunna

•What are push-pull factors?

• Reasons for migration

•Which famous city in Egypt is likely to have the lowest yearly precipitation?

• Cairo

•Where are the areas that are generally the wettest located?

• Along the Equator

•What reason is believed to have prompted the Bantu migrations?

• Needed more land for a growing population

•What is the main belief of followers of animism?

• Spirits play an important role in regulating daily life.

•What is one result of the migrations of the Bantu-speaking peoples?

• There are 60 million African people who speak one of the Bantu languages.

•Who was Mali's first great leader?

• Sundiata

• How did the rulers of Ghana grow rich?

• By taxing the goods traders carried through their territory.

•What does it mean if an African society is matrilineal?

• Ancestry is traced to the mother.

•What is one way Sundiata helped the Mali Empire grow powerful and wealthy?

• Promoted agriculture, re-established the gold-salt trade.

• How did Islam spread throughout Africa?

• It spread by conquest and through trade.

•What region is known as Mesoamerica?

• the area that stretches south from central Mexico to northern Honduras

•Which crop was most important to the survival of the early Americans?

•maize

• How did the first people to arrive in the Americas support themselves?

• hunting and gathering

•Which of the following used hieroglyphs?

•Maya

•What type of sacrifice did the Aztecs practice?

• They practiced human sacrifice for religious offerings.

•Which Mesoamerican group had a social welfare state that cared for all their people?

• Inca

• Tikal was the name of an important Maya what?

• city

• Glyphs were used for what?

• the Maya writing system.

• Aztecs worked to establish loyalty among conquered peoples.

• True or false?

• True.

• Tenochtitlán is a famous Aztec…

• city.

• Quetzalcoatl is a what?

• a war god.

• Pachacuti stands out in Inca history as the:

• ruler who expanded the kingdom into an empire.

• In Incan tradition, the ayllu was:

• the small-group structure used for community work projects.

• In the Incan Empire, mita was a type of:

• labor tribute.

• The decline of the Incan Empire can be traced to a struggle between rivals for the Inca throne..

• True/False?

• True.