Ap World History Chapter 9 Essay
Unit Two Test (Chapters 7,8,9,10,12,13)
1) What was the fictional account of life at the court of the Caliph al-Rashid?
A) B) C)
D) E)
2) What accounts for the disruption of the agricultural economy of the Abbasid Empire?
A) The government ordered regions of the empire populated by Shi'as abandoned.
B) The decline of the cities led to a fall in the demand for food supplies and consequent drops in agricultural prices.
C) Cropping patters were abandoned.
D) Progressive desiccation of the region led to a diminution of the land available for agriculture.
E) Spiralling taxation, the destruction of the irrigation works, and pillaging by …show more content…
A) Neither universal states nor universal religion characterized Africa, but both Christianity and Islam did find adherents in Africa.
B) There were no similarities in the various African religious beliefs.
C) During the post-classical period, Africa was politically united under a single government but remained religiously diverse.
D) Although a universal empire did not develop in Africa, Islam provided a principle of universality in the continent.
E) Universal religions found no adherents in Africa ¹ a fact that helps to account for the failure of a universal political system to develop.
20) African societies organized around kinship or other forms of obligation and lacking the concentration of political power and authority were referred to as
A) stateless. B) proto-Empires. C) Islamic tribes. D) hunting and gathering bands. E) Bantu conical …show more content…
E) It means that Africans favored a variety of socialism.
26) What was the most important Christian kingdom in Africa?
A) Egypt B) Kongo C) Songhay D) Ethiopia E) Mali
27) The Sahel refers to the
A) East African coastline that became the primary point of contact for Muslim merchants from India and Southeast Asia and African traders.
B) grassland belt at the southern edge of the Sahara that served as a point of exchange between the forests of the south and North Africa.
C) series of trading ports that rapidly developed along the Atlantic coast to support the trade in African slaves.
D) that part of the Sahara that extends onto the Arabian peninsula.
E) forest zone of Central Africa that remained free of Islamic influence largely because of the inability of the camel to withstand the climate of the region.
28) What was the geographical location of the empire of Mali?
A) between the Niger and Senegal Rivers B) in the Atlas mountains of North Africa
C) between the cities of Mogadishu and Mombasa D) between the Zambezi and Congo Rivers
E) along the Nile River
1) What was the fictional account of life at the court of the Caliph al-Rashid?
A) B) C)
D) E)
2) What accounts for the disruption of the agricultural economy of the Abbasid Empire?
A) The government ordered regions of the empire populated by Shi'as abandoned.
B) The decline of the cities led to a fall in the demand for food supplies and consequent drops in agricultural prices.
C) Cropping patters were abandoned.
D) Progressive desiccation of the region led to a diminution of the land available for agriculture.
E) Spiralling taxation, the destruction of the irrigation works, and pillaging by …show more content…
A) Neither universal states nor universal religion characterized Africa, but both Christianity and Islam did find adherents in Africa.
B) There were no similarities in the various African religious beliefs.
C) During the post-classical period, Africa was politically united under a single government but remained religiously diverse.
D) Although a universal empire did not develop in Africa, Islam provided a principle of universality in the continent.
E) Universal religions found no adherents in Africa ¹ a fact that helps to account for the failure of a universal political system to develop.
20) African societies organized around kinship or other forms of obligation and lacking the concentration of political power and authority were referred to as
A) stateless. B) proto-Empires. C) Islamic tribes. D) hunting and gathering bands. E) Bantu conical …show more content…
E) It means that Africans favored a variety of socialism.
26) What was the most important Christian kingdom in Africa?
A) Egypt B) Kongo C) Songhay D) Ethiopia E) Mali
27) The Sahel refers to the
A) East African coastline that became the primary point of contact for Muslim merchants from India and Southeast Asia and African traders.
B) grassland belt at the southern edge of the Sahara that served as a point of exchange between the forests of the south and North Africa.
C) series of trading ports that rapidly developed along the Atlantic coast to support the trade in African slaves.
D) that part of the Sahara that extends onto the Arabian peninsula.
E) forest zone of Central Africa that remained free of Islamic influence largely because of the inability of the camel to withstand the climate of the region.
28) What was the geographical location of the empire of Mali?
A) between the Niger and Senegal Rivers B) in the Atlas mountains of North Africa
C) between the cities of Mogadishu and Mombasa D) between the Zambezi and Congo Rivers
E) along the Nile River