Deck 12: Expanding Horizons in Africa and the Americas, 600-1500

Question 1

Which of the following statements about religious beliefs in Africa is most accurate?

A) A substantial majority of Africans were practicing Christians.
B) Africans practiced a wide range of both monotheistic and polytheistic religions.
C) Most Africans disavowed animism preferring the tenets of monotheistic religions.

Answer 1

Africans practiced a wide range of both monotheistic and polytheistic religions.

Question 2

Which of the following architectural structures did the Cahokia build that exceeded the height of those built in Egypt and Teotihuacan?

A) Ramparts
B) Cathedrals
C) Pyramids

Answer 2

Pyramids

Question 3

When did Islam begin making its way along trade routes to the Sudanic peoples?

A) In the 200s
B) In the 500s
C) In the 800s

Answer 3

In the 800s

Question 4

Which of the following best describes the expanse of the Toltec trade network?

A) It reached Andean societies in South America and as far north as present-day New Mexico and Arizona.
B) It reached as far south as present-day Honduras and as far north as Alaska.
C) It never reached beyond the boundaries of present-day Mexico.

Question 5

The Mayan cities of Uxmal, Chichen Itza, and Mayapan were located where?

A) Densely clustered around Teotihuacan
B) Along the Peruvian coast
C) On the Yucatán Peninsula

Question 6

What function did griots serve in West African society?

A) Fighting on behalf of local chieftains in exchange for food and housing
B) Acting as middlemen between African and European slave traders
C) Keeping, recounting, and updating the histories of their societies

Question 7

How did the Aztec acquire much of its wealth and territory?

A) Through rigorous diplomatic negotiations with neighboring societies
B) From the king and queen of Spain
C) By conquering neighboring societies through warfare

Question 8

Which of the following statements about slavery in Africa is most accurate?

A) Though they still led difficult lives, African slaves enjoyed more rights and privileges than slaves in other contemporary societies.
B) African slaves enjoyed far fewer rights and privileges than their counterparts in other contemporary societies.
C) Slaves in European, Islamic, Asian, and American societies all enjoyed far more rights and privileges than those in contemporary African societies.

Question 9

Koumbi served as the capital for the earliest known Sudanic kingdom named what?

A) Mali
B) Ghana
C) Sudan

Question 10

The major centers of Mesa Verde and Chaco Canyon were established by which of the following peoples?

A) The Anasazi
B) The Toltecs
C) The Maya

Question 11

Which of the following date ranges most accurately describes the primacy of the Toltec empire?

A) 343-689 CE
B) 900-1168 CE
C) 947-1521 CE

Question 12

Which of the following practices prevented food shortages among the Chimu?

A) Hundreds of miles of canals across the desert
B) Rerouted tributaries flowing from the Amazon River
C) Terraced irrigation systems along mountainsides

Question 13

Which of the following statements about slavery in Africa is most accurate?

A) Though they still led difficult lives, African slaves enjoyed more rights and privileges than slaves in other contemporary societies.
B) African slaves enjoyed far fewer rights and privileges than their counterparts in other contemporary societies.
C) Slaves in European, Islamic, Asian, and American societies all enjoyed far more rights and privileges than those in contemporary African societies.

Question 14

Which of the following served as the capital of the Aztec empire?

A) Teotihuacan
B) Tenochtitlan
C) Timbuktu

Question 15

Paleolithic Africans were among the first to express themselves visually in what way?

A) Carving lifelike sculptures from marble
B) Producing the earliest known photographs
C) Painting on rock and cave walls

Question 16

Which of the following is one reason that writing spread more slowly in Africa than in other areas?

A) Most societies banned writing as a form of imperial oppression.
B) Well-defined customs and communal ownership of land did not necessitate documentation.
C) With so few merchants, the need for written documentation did not arise.

Question 17

Which of the following conquered the Chimu around 1475?

A) The Maya
B) The Inca
C) The Toltecs

Question 18

Bartolomeu Dias and Vasco de Gama sailed for which of the following European peoples largely responsible for initiating the African slave trade in the Americas?

A) Spanish
B) Portuguese
C) British

Question 19

Though the Anasazi flourished between 700 and 1400, their decline began around 1200 due to all of the following factors except which?

A) Environmental challenges
B) Increased warfare between pueblos
C) Invasion by the Spanish

Question 20

Which of the following Puebloan societies constructed adobe structures in Casa Grande located in present-day Arizona ca. 1325?

A) The Mogollan
B) The Anasazi
C) The Hohokum

Question 21

How was Great Zimbabwe integrated into the global economy?

Question 22

What evidence exists to support the claim that Great Zimbabwe was based on mineral extraction for its wealth?

Question 23

Describe the political composition of sub-Saharan Africa during this period.

Question 24

Which ritual did the Aztecs practice on a scale greater than any other human society?

A) Human sacrifice
B) Purification ceremonies
C) Child marriage

Question 25

To facilitate communication between and administration of conquered peoples, the Inca constructed what?

A) A communication network like the telegraph
B) An elaborate writing system understood by all
C) 14,000 miles of road

Question 26

Describe the origins of Mali.

Question 27

Describe the origins of Great Zimbabwe society.

Question 28

Describe the origin and rise of the Ghana empire.

Question 29

What challenges did Mali encounter and what were the results of those challenges?

Question 30

Which of the following Sudanic kingdoms did the Malinke establish in 1234?

A) Mali
B) Ghana
C) Sudan

Question 31

Which of the following brought an end to Aztec domination in Mexico?

A) Spanish conquest and occupation
B) The arrival of Portuguese slave traders
C) The resurgence of the Maya

Question 32

How did Islam influence East African societies and economies?

Question 33

Which of the following statements accurately describes the Inca empire?

A) With Tenochtitlan at its core, the Inca empire extended as far south as Central America and as far north as the present-day American Southwest.
B) With Cuzco as its capital, the Inca empire stretched nearly 3,000 miles across South America.
C) With Teotihuacan as its capital, the Inca empire controlled all of Mexico and a majority of territory in Central America.

Question 34

How did the Inca make use of the colored knotted stings or cords called quipus?

A) To record and transmit information
B) To decorate their ritual garments
C) To function as a form of currency

Question 35

How did Islam influence West African societies?

Question 36

What functions did Mali's leaders serve?

Question 37

Which of the following best describes the historical importance of Timbuktu?

A) It housed the entire world's gold supply.
B) It served as the capital for several generations of Malian rulers.
C) It functioned as the major southern terminus of the trans-Saharan trade route.

Question 38

Describe Ghana's role in regional trade networks.

Question 39

Which of the following best describes the way in which conquered peoples were assimilated into Inca society?

A) Inca leaders resettled the conquered and fostered goodwill and cooperation among conquered societies.
B) Inca priests forced all men, women, and children to work toward agricultural pursuits.
C) Inca women adopted the children of all conquered peoples to quickly enculturate them.

Question 40

How did Islam influence the politics and economy of Mali?

Question 41

What was the objective of Aztec expansion, and was that objective met?

Question 42

Describe the rise of the Aztec empire.

Question 43

Describe Anasazi society's rise and fall.

Question 44

To what extent did sub-Saharan African societies cooperate, and to what extent did they compete with one another?

Question 45

What aspects of classical Mesoamerican societies survived?

Question 46

What was the importance of trade to Mali and Songhai?

Question 47

Describe how the Inca ruled their empire.

Question 48

Why did Ghana's rulers convert to Islam, and what short-term and long-term consequences did this have?

Question 49

How was Inca unity achieved? Describe at least two institutions or practices.

Question 50

The imperial capital of Gao functioned as a market for which of the following exports to European and Mediterranean societies?

A) Glass
B) Copperware
C) Slaves

Question 51

What effects might overfarming have had on classical Mesoamerican societies?

Question 52

Describe the formation of the Inca empire.

Question 53

What were the objectives of Portuguese expeditions to West Africa and were they met?

Question 54

What explanations are common for classical Mesoamerican demise?

Question 55

Describe Tenochtitlan.

Question 56

What differences and similarities exist between Monte Verde society and Chaco Canyon society?

Question 57

What challenges led to the fall of Great Zimbabwe?

Question 58

Describe the fate of classical Mesoamerican societies.

Question 59

In addition to functioning as an important node on the trans-Saharan trade route, the city of Timbuktu emerged as what?

A) An intellectual center attracting academics from far and wide
B) An island of Christianity in an otherwise Muslim region
C) A city where slave trafficking did not exist

Question 60

What role did Mississippian cities play?

Question 61

How did West Africans use religion to gain access to trade networks in Europe and Asia? What consequences did this have?

Question 62

How did East Africans benefit from having access to the Islamic world, and how did their access differ to West Africans' access?

Question 63

What similarities and differences existed between the Inca empire and the Aztec empire?

Question 64

A new culture and language called Swahili emerged from the intermarriage and blending of which of the following influences?

A) Mediterranean, Egyptian, and Yoruba
B) Bantu, Arab, and Islamic
C) European, Mediterranean, and Shona

Question 65

Did environmental degradation or military conflict affect the demise of classical Mesoamerican societies the most?

Question 66

How did environmental factors affect Anasazi society's welfare?

Question 67

How were the fortunes of Great Zimbabwe and Kongo similar, and in what ways did they differ?

Question 68

Describe how Aztec foreign policy was connected to Aztec religion.

Question 69

Describe the differences and similarities between Hausa and Yoruba states.

Question 70

How did having Timbuktu in its territory benefit Mali and then Songhai?

Question 71

The Yoruba settled along the Guinea coast ca. 1000 BCE in which of the following present-day countries?

A) Kenya
B) Ghana
C) Nigeria

Question 72

Which of the following statements regarding agriculture in African is most accurate?

A) Most Africans worked on massive, well-irrigated, high-yield plots of land.
B) Most Africans worked small plots of land to produce enough for their families.
C) Most Africans did not involve themselves in agriculture preferring to trade for foodstuffs from importers.

Question 73

How did Aztec expansion create political, economic, and social problems for the empire?

Question 74

How did Inca rulers maintain order in their empire and how did their subjects respond?

Question 75

What evidence exists to support the claim that Mississippian societies were influenced by Mesoamerican societies?

Question 76

Which of the following Sudanic empires emerged following the decline of Mali?

A) The Songhai
B) The Hausa
C) The Moroccans