Era 3 Visual Review by region Directions Answer
Era 3 Visual Review (by region) Directions: Answer the following questions on your own paper, then grade yourself using the answer key. You MUST grade yourself and write your score at the top of your paper to receive the extra credit! There are two ways you could do this: you could do open book/note/etc if you are not feeling confident -OR- you could try it from memory to truly test yourself. Extra Credit: 7 points (can be used on this nine-weeks or saved to the next nine-weeks. Why this Learning Opportunity? • You will be able to review a wide array of Era 3 content • You will practice your SPICE-T knowledge and skills on many questions • You will practice your visual analysis skills • Pictures are great
Europe
1. This Byzantine fresco dates to the early days of the Byzantine Empire. What does it reveal about the power of the emperor? (Emperor Justinian is pictured in the middle) 2. What was the major religious difference between the Byzantine Empire and Western Europe? 3. What other civilization adopted many aspects of Byzantine culture and politics?
Europe c. 1200 CE 4. What claim can be made about the Byzantine Empire at this time? 5. Why is the Byzantine Empire labeled as the “Roman Empire” on this map? 6. What claim can be made about Andalusia (Spanish peninsula) at this time? 7. What general claim can be made about Western Europe at this time? 8. What claim can be made about the Muslim world (called Dar-al-Islam) at this time?
9. Connect this picture to a major concept/idea in post. Classical Western Europe. 10. Connect this picture to a second major conept/idea in post. Classical Western Europe.
11. What conflict is pictured in the image? 12. What were the most important impacts of these conflicts?
13. Europe had many struggles between the years 500 CE (about the time the Western Roman Empire collapsed) till 1000 CE. List two of those struggles. (this question has no connection to the images) 14. Europe began improving after 1000 CE. What improvement is pictured in each visual?
Africa
15. Using the image, what could you say led to the development/rise of West African states? 16. Which West African state was most dominant around the year 1200 CE? (not all of these in the image existed at the same time) 17. List some of the products that West Africans imported and exported.
Mosque in the city of Jenne. 19. Make a connection between Islam and urban centers in West Africa.
20. What civilization do these cities on the eastern coats of Africa represent? 21. What allowed them to rise in power? 22. Describe the cultural diffusion that took place in these cities. What culture impacted them? 23. How was Great Zimbabwe connected to Indian Ocean trade? Provide specific information.
East Asia
24. What major man-made feature of China is illustrated in this image? 25. What SPICE-T theme does it best fit into directly (without thinking of its effects/purposes) 26. Provide one economic effect it had. 27. Provide one political effect it had.
28. What can we say about post-Classical China based on these images. 29. What would you call image A and B? Image A is ______, and image B is _______.
30. What connection can you make to post. Classical China using this image? Be as specific as possible.
31. What can we say about post-Classical China based on these images? 32. What empire facilitated the spread of gunpowder across Eurasia? 33. Who would be the first to use gunpowder in the form of cannons?
34. This is an example of the type of relationship China established with many of its neighbors. What was it called? 35. What other ritual process would the foreigner complete, besides the giving of gifts? 36. What would this foreigner be allowed to do after this? A foreigner presents the emperor with gifts. 37. What groups (if they grew strong enough) used this system against the Chinese (you can give a general answer or a more specific example).
South Asia
We will not discuss too many specific in India for Era 3. It was a time of repeated invasion, mostly by Muslim and Turkic groups. • Time of fragmentation & repeated invasion • Muslims conquer Punjab region in 711 (though Islam first arrives by Muslim merchants) • Mahmud of Gazni’s empire conquers northern India (997 -1030) • Delhi Sultanates (late 1100 s – c. 1320) • Tughluq dynasty (1320 -1413) • Tamerlane invades 1398
38. What Interaction w/Environment continuity can be derived from this image? Himalayas
39. This map shows the various languages of India. What political continuity of India can be derived from this?
However, the following pictures represent important continuities for understanding India’s history in general (continuity = a factor that stays the same over time): 40. What economic continuity of India does this image represent?
41. What social continuity of India does this image represent?
42. What cultural continuity of India do these images represent? When I was a valet in Birmingham, I often saw such talismans (? ) hanging on the rearview mirrors of our Hindu clients.
Southeast Asia
43. Both of these serve as evidence of what? (think cultural SPICE-T theme) Angkor Wat in modern day Cambodia. Originally build as a Hindu temple. 44. Borobudur also serves as an example of what? (look closely at the background of the pic for help) Borobudur is a Buddhist temple on the island of Java in modern-day Indonesia.
45. Why was Indian Ocean trade important to the political development of Southeast Asia? 46. What specific geographic feature was of extreme important to the Srivijaya Empire? 47. What were the two greatest foreign cultural influences on Southeast Asia? (think of their “big neighbors”)
Mulsim World (Dar al Islam)
48. Connect this picture to a major topic/idea in Islam. 49. Connect this picture to a second major topic/idea in Islam.
50. What group of Muslims is being represented in this mystical painitng? 51. Why was this group so important for the spread of Islam to new regions?
52. Describe the power of the Abbasid Caliphate at 1200 CE using this image.
53. The orange regions represents the Muslim world (or Dar-al-Islam). Using the map, explain why the Muslim world was known for its wealth and prosperity at this time.
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