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Transcript of Accelerated World History November 11-12, 2015. Warm Up – November 11-12, 2015.
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.