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Unit 3 Study Guide-Ch. 7 & 8 Africa and Asia
1. Which of Africa’s deserts stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean?
2. What was a crucial factor in African trade across the Sahara for the Berbers?
3. Altogether, deserts cover about ____ percent of Africa.
4. After ____________________, Africa is the largest of the continents.
5. Who does Axum owe much of its prosperity to?
6. What was the first of the great trading states to emerge in West Africa?
7. What did the Berber camel caravans became known as?
8. What does matrilineal mean?
9. How was Music and storytelling used in Africa?
10. Why were ancestors were a key element in African religion?
11.
Where does the the tsetse fly live and why is it dangerous?
12. What did the people of Ghana often traded their gold for?
13. What was the Bantu communities economics based on?
14. What do you call a group of independent villages organized by clans and led by a local ruler or clan
head?
15. Why was Islam was slow to spread in East Africa?
16. A special class of _________ believed they had the power to foretell events, usually by working with
supernatural forces.
17. What was the earliest African empire?
18. The Kushites traded iron products, ivory, gold, ebony, and slaves to the Roman Empire, Arabia, and
India for?
19. Under whose reign did Songhai become the largest empire in African history?
20. What are Africa’s four distinct climate zones?
21. What did Mali trade to build its wealth and power?
22. What ruler transformed Timbuktu into a center of Islamic learning and culture?
23. What activities were young men allowed to do while preparing for the civil service examination in
China during the Tang dynasty?
24. What Chinese religion taught that the world was divided into a material world and a spiritual world,
and that the goal of humans was to move from the material world into a union with the Supreme
Ultimate?
25. What Technological developments happened during the Tang dynasty?
26. What did the city of Changan become, as a result of trade?
27. Who brought much of the Eurasian landmass under a single rule, creating the largest land empire in
history?
28. What was the purpose of the samurai of Japan were a new class of military?
29. What did the followers of Theravada see Buddhism as?
30. Who were the trading societies of Southeast Asia?
31. In the Tang and Song Eras, the old landed aristocracy was replaced by the ____________________
as the political and economic elite of Chinese society.
32. What is Emperor Tang Xuanzang is remembered for?
33. 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?
34. Describe what Bushido is.
35. What was Korean society strongly influenced by?
36. What are the two major parts of Southeast Asia?
37. Which temple combines Indian architectural techniques with native inspiration?
38. Which Japanese religion, still practiced today, includes a belief that people’s ancestors are present in
the air around them.
39. The most popular sect of Buddhism in early Japan was___________________, which teaches that
enlightenment comes through self-discipline and meditation.
40. Who first introduced Buddhism in Japan in the sixth century A.D.?
41. _______________________ were heads of noble families who controlled vast landed estates in
Japan.
42. The Mongol capital of Khanbalik later became this Chinese name?
43. After the death of Genghis Khan, the Mongol empire was divided among his sons into separate
territories known as?
44. Which two rivers were linked by China’s Grand Canal?
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Unit 3- Africa and Asia-Matching
1. Name a trading state of the upper Niger River valley.
2. Who owned the “fleets of the desert”?
3. What was Mali’s famous trading city?
4. What do we call societies in which descent is traced through the mother, rather than the father?
5. List Some of the trading societies of South East Asia
6. What woman had ruled China for half a century?
7. Who established a dynasty in Korea that ruled for over five hundred years?
8. Name a Chinese poet during the Tang era.
9. Chinese Song rulers moved the imperial court to this city to avoid conquerors from the north.
10. Sect of Buddhism
11. What dynasty that preceded the Tang dynasty?
12. What was at the heart of Chinese state government from the Song dynasty to the twentieth century?
13. What word means “the way of the warrior”?
14. What was established after Chinese rule was overthrown
15. What dynasty preceded the Song dynasty
16. Major technological advancement of the Tang dynasty.
17. His poem “Quiet Night Thoughts” has been memorized by schoolchildren for centuries.
18. What do we call the powerful military leader who was the true ruler of Japan?
19. Name of Hindu warriors who resisted the advance of Ghazna.
Word Bank:
Rajputs
Srivijaya
shogun
Yi Song-gye
Thereavada
Li Bo
Hangzhou
Ghana
Bushido
Wu Zhao
Du Fu
Dai Viet
Sui
Matrilineal
Mahayana
gunpowder
Confucianism
Berbers e
Timbucktu
Tang