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Islam, Africa, & SE Asia Study Guide
 Study Chapter 9, 11, & 13 Vocabulary, Kingdoms & Dynasties, and Important
People: Muhammad, Abu Bakr, Seljuk Turks, Timur Lenk, Tang, Genghis Khan
1. Where in Spain did the Umayyads establish a Muslim center?
2. What did camel caravans pass through, when they were traveling on the Arabian
Peninsula?
3. What were the effects of the spread of Islam?
4. Why did Chinese literature flourish through the Tang and Ming dynasties?
5. What happened to trade during the Tang and Song dynasties?
6. Which two rivers were linked by China’s Grand Canal?
7. Which dynasty was the first in China since the end of the Han dynasty 300 years earlier?
8. What happened when the Song Dynasty put more land into the hands of peasants?
9. What was at the heart of the Chinese state government from the Song dynasty to the
end of the dynastic system in the twentieth century?
10. What strongly influenced the Korean society?
11. What was the purpose of the Great Enclosure of Great Zimbabwe?
12. What did the masks and statues, created by early African wood carvers, represent?
13. How was historical information passed down from generation to generation, since there
was no written language?
14. Why did the Songhai people first settle along the banks of the Niger, east of Timbuktu?
15. Why did Ghana collapse during the 1100s?
16. What was happening in South Africa, as Ghana was being formed in the west?
17. Why were the cities of Mogadishu, Mombasa, and Kilwa able to become so wealthy?
18. Why was Islam adopted more slowly in East Africa than in the north?
19. What is neo-Confusianism?
20. During the Tang and Song Eras, what replaced old landed aristocracy?