Unit 3 Test Review
1. What was a significant effect of Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage to Mecca?
2. Which economic activity was the basis for most of the wealth and power of the West African empires
of Ghana and Mali?
3. What are the benefits of religious tolerance?
4. What do Islam, Judaism, and Christianity have in common?
5. One important way in which the Silk Road and West African trade routes were similar was that along
all of these routes-
6. What are some ways that ideas spread from one area to another?
7. How did the spreading of Islam help with the rise of the kingdoms in Africa?
8. How did the Islamic caliphate under Abu Bakr's leadership spread Islam to Asia, Africa, and parts of
Europe?
9. What were some major economic developments of Tang and Song China?
10. Define bushido.
11. What is the Quran?
12. Which 3 African Kingdoms benefitted the most from the Gold-Salt Trade?
13. Why did Mongol Rulers build such large and elegant places?
14. In the ancient kingdom of Mali and in the Roman Republic, what was the importance of codified laws?
15. How did Islam spread to Europe, Asia and North Africa in the 7th and 8th centuries?
16. How does culture in different civilizations affect the rights of women?
17. How did geography influence trade in Africa?
18. Define the Pax Mongolica.
19. What are the Five Pillars of Islam? Why are they important?
20. What role did Arab merchants play in spreading Islam to societies in Europe, Asia, and North Africa?
21. One similarity between the Gupta Empire and the caliphates of the Islamic Golden Age is that they
both-
22. Compare and contrast the Silk Road Trade and the Africa Gold-Salt Trade.
