Question: Role of Islamic empires in diffusion?

Answer Options: Eliminated influence Warfare stopped spread Shi’a dominance All helped expansion

Answer: All helped expansion

Question: Importance of trade in Islam spread?

Answer Options: Attracted poor Spread via trade routes Funded missionaries Forced conversions

Answer: Spread via trade routes

Question: Why is the Kaaba important?

Answer Options: Birthplace Focus of prayer and hajj Peace treaty site Angel encounter

Answer: Focus of prayer and hajj

Question: Why was Trans-Saharan Trade important?

Answer Options: Ottoman travel Sunni/Shi’a conflict Prestige Spain access Spread to Mali/Songhay

Answer: Spread to Mali/Songhay

Question: Which limitation describes the challenge in using only primary sources to study the past?

Answer Options: Primary sources only evaluate a historical event. Primary sources are simply narratives of past events. Primary sources present the experiences of only one group. Primary sources provide only one interpretation of the past.

Answer: Primary sources provide only one interpretation of the past.

Question: Which example is a secondary source?

Answer Options: A drawing by a slave A book by a scholar describing slavery A ledger by a slave trader Letters by a slave owner

Answer: A book by a scholar that describes the material culture of slavery

Question: Which document can serve as a primary source for the 1950s?

Answer Options: A reference book A textbook written in the 1950s A letter from the 1850s A documentary

Answer: A textbook written in the 1950s.

Question: Who are historians referring to when they speak of “the historical Jesus”?

Answer Options: Miracle-working Jesus Religious-text-only Jesus Faith-based Jesus Historically analyzed Jesus

Answer: The Jesus that we know through Christian and non-Christian sources using historical analysis

Question: What was an effect of Roman destruction of the Jewish temple?

Answer Options: Elimination of Judaism New temple built Focus on rabbis and texts Mass conversion

Answer: Recentering of Judaism on rabbis and texts

Question: Which effect did the Edict of Milan have?

Answer Options: Emperor as god Criminalized Christianity Legalized Christianity Made it official religion

Answer: It recognized Christianity as a legal religion.

Question: How did fall of Western Rome affect Church rise?

Answer Options: Church conquered empire Unified with Byzantines Filled power vacuum Popes became gods

Answer: The Roman Catholic Church filled the void occupied by the fallen empire.

Question: Difference in church/state Byzantines vs Western Rome?

Answer Options: Byzantines uninvolved Byzantine emperor ruled church + state No icon involvement No appointments

Answer: A Byzantine emperor was the head of both the church and the state, while in the Western Roman Empire, the emperor was only a state ruler.

Question: Why were iconoclasts concerned?

Answer Options: Art vs religion Western influence Too expensive Idolatry

Answer: They thought it was a form of idolatry.