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Global 10- ______
Unit 5: Empires
Regents Questions
____ 1) Which group had the greatest influence on early Russian culture?
1. Franks
2. Ottoman Turks
3. Byzantine empire
4. Roman Catholic Church
“Western Europe owed a debt of gratitude to the Empire that for almost a thousand years ensured the
survival of Christianity during a time when Europe was too weak to accomplish the task.”
____ 2) Which Empire is referred to in this quotation?
1. Hellenistic
2. Mongol
3. Byzantine
4. Ottoman
____ 3) An influence that spread from the Byzantine Empire to Early Russia was the
1. Orthodox Christian religion
2. use of the Latin alphabet
3. beginning of democracy
4. factory system
____ 4) Which empire introduced the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Cyrillic alphabet to Russia?
1. Mongol
2. Byzantine
3. British
4. Gupta
____ 5) The adoption of the Eastern Orthodox religion and the Cyrillic alphabet by the Russian people
occurred as a result of
1. territorial expansion during the reign of Catherine the Great
2. the westernization policies of Peter the Great
3. contact with Byzantine culture in the 10th century
4. the influence of the Crusaders during the Middle Ages
____ 6) A major feature of the Golden Age of Moslem culture was the
1. political and economic isolation of the Arab world
2. development of the foundations of modern science and mathematics
3. adoption of democratic government
4. persecution of Jews and Christians
____ 7) Which factor helps explain the scientific and literary achievements of the Muslims during their
Golden Age (A.D. 800-1300)?
1. expansion of trans-Atlantic trade
2. innovations introduced by the Europeans during the Renaissance
3. cultural diversity accepted by many Islamic governments
4. legal equality of all people in the Islamic empire
____ 8) Mansa Musa’s journey to Mecca in the 1300’s is evidence that
1. the Crusades had a great influence on western Africa
2. most African leaders were educated in the Middle East
3. European culture was superior to the cultures of western Africa
4. Islam had a major influence on the Mali Empire
____ 9) Which activity occurred during the Golden Age of Muslim culture?
1. destruction of books containing Greek and Roman ideas
2. beginning of pilgrimages to Mecca
3. opposition to freedom of thought and to foreign ideas by rulers
4. major discoveries in mathematics and science
____ 10) The contributions of the Golden Age of Islamic civilization include
1. advances in mathematics
2. irrigation systems
3. polytheistic beliefs
4. gunpowder and guns
____ 11) The Mongols played a significant role in Russian history by
1. supporting Czar Nicholas II during the Russian Revolution
2. supporting the rule of Ivan the Terrible
3. ending the reign of Catherine the Great
4. isolating Russia from Western Europe during the early Renaissance
_____ 12) During the centuries of dynastic rule, the Chinese rejected other cultures as inferior to their
own. This situation illustrates the concept of
1. ethnocentrism
2. imperialism
3. social mobility
4. cultural diffusion
____ 13) Korea greatly influenced the development of early Japan by
1. acting as a bridge for ideas from China
2. providing Japan with the technology for industrialization
3. serving as a barrier against Chinese aggression
4. protecting Japan from early European exploration
____ 14) A valid generalization about early Japanese culture is that Japan
1. had a strong influence on the development of culture in Korea
2. spread Shinto throughout Asia
3. maintained a uniquely individual culture while borrowing much from other cultures
4. imported almost all of its cultural ideas from China, resulting in nearly identical cultures
____ 15) Which statement best explains the periods of the Gupta Empire of India, the Golden Age of
Greece, and the Renaissance in Italy?
1. the winning of a war often inspires scientific and artistic achievement
2. a combination of wealth and a time of relative peace often leads to cultural achievement
3. a dictatorship usually encourages cultural growth and development
4. periods of censorship are needed for a nation to achieve cultural and scientific greatness
____ 16) Until the 1500’s, China and Japan were similar in that both
1. were invaded by the Mongols
2. welcomed Christian Missionaries
3. had little contact with Western European nations
4. were developing democratic traditions
____ 17) The societies of traditional China, Feudal Japan, and Czarist Russia were all characterized by
1. a rigid class structure
2. much interaction with other cultures
3. great economic change
4. rapidly changing social values
____ 18) In China, the building of the Great Wall, the use of the tribute system, and the government’s
support of the Boxer Rebellion are examples of attempts by different dynasties to limit
1. foreign influence
2. nationalism
3. communist expansion
4. industrialization
____ 19) One way in which the Meiji Restoration in Japan and the Golden Age of India are similar is
that in each region these events led to
1. the persecution of minority peoples
2. periods of rapid change
3. the rise of feudalism as the dominant political system
4. governments ruled by absolute monarchs
Document 2
Physician al-Razi wrote a medical reference encyclopedia, the Comprehensive Book and
Treatise on Smallpox and Measles. Ibn Sina (Avicenna) wrote the five-volume
The Canon of Medicine. These books were translated into Latin and other languages and influenced
doctors in Europe.
The excerpt below is from the textbook World History: Patterns of Interaction
show the level of medical expertise of Islamic doctors.
Medical Reference Books
When Europeans learned that Muslims had preserved important medical texts, they
wanted to translate the texts into Latin. In the eleventh century, scholars traveled to
libraries in places such as Toledo, Spain, where they began translating –but only after
they learned to read Arabic. Through this process, European medical schools gained
access to vital reference sources such as al-Razi’s Comprehensive Book and Ibn Sina’s
The Canon of medicine. Ibn Sina’s five-volume encyclopedia guided doctors of Europe
and Southwest Asia for six centuries. For nearly 500 years, al Qasim’s work, The
Method, which contained original drawings of some 200 medical tools, was the
foremost textbook on surgery in Europe.
2. Why did Europeans want to learn to read Arabic? [1]
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