600 To 1450 Preassessment

1. Which of the following is NOT one of the 5 pillars of Islam?

Confession of Faith - "There is no God but Allah and Mohammed is his prophet."

Charity or Alms-giving (giving money to the poor)

Fasting (Ramadan)

Pilgrimage to Mecca (the Hajj)

Prayer (5 times a day facing Mecca)

Communion (symbolically drinking the blood and eating the flesh of God)

2. In what regions did Islam spread to between 600 and 800?

Middle East, North Africa, Spain

Middle East, Central Asia, Southeast Asia

Eastern Europe and Asia

Eastern Europe, Central Asia, South Asia

3. Which empire established itself around Constantinople, expanded around the Mediterreanean Sea, and was united by their own form of Christianity - Eastern Orthodoxy.

The Roman Empire

The Ottoman Empire

The Byzantine Empire

The Persian Empire

4. Who were the people from the steppes of central Asia who rode horses and established the greatest empire the world had ever seen in the 1200s?

Persians

Ottomans

Mongols

Huns

5. Which event occurred in 1054 and created a separation between the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church?

Great Schism

Protestant Reformation

Separation of Powers

Tetrarchy