WORLD HISTORY A 4.2.10 PRACTICE
MAPPING IMPERIAL EXPANSION
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SCRIPT 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
⩥ Dome of the Rock. Answer: Built on Temple Mount in Jerusalem
during the Umayyad Dynasty
⩥ Shi'ite (Shia) Islam. Answer: One of the divisions of Islam; believe
that Ali was the rightful heir to the empire
⩥ Sunni Islam. Answer: One of the divisions of Islam; believe that the
caliph should be chosen from a broad base of people; against Ali
⩥ Abbasid Dynasty. Answer: 750-1258; golden age from the early to the
mid-9th century; capital at Baghdad;
⩥ Baghdad. Answer: Capital of Abbasid Dynasty; one of the greatest
cultural centers of the world
⩥ Trade in the Islamic Empire. Answer: Idea of credit introduced;
system of itemized receipts and bills
,⩥ Islamic Advancements. Answer: Steel, medical and mathematics
(especially algebra)
⩥ Mohammad al-Razi. Answer: Islamic; published a massive medical
encyclopedia
⩥ Battle of the Talus River. Answer: Abbasid versus Tang China; fight
for control of Silk Road trading posts; where the Abbasids found
Chinese paper money and learned to make their own
⩥ Islamic preservation of Western culture. Answer: Classical writings
were translated into Arabic and preserved them in Arabic libraries and
museums
⩥ Levant. Answer: Area of land including present-day Israel, Jordan,
Syria, Lebanon, and other points north and south
⩥ Sufis. Answer: Islamic mystics; most effective Islamic missionaries;
practiced their own way to revere Allah, not the traditional rituals;
tolerant of others who placed Allah in the framework of other beliefs
⩥ Arabic women. Answer: Viewed as property; low status; female
infanticide
,⩥ Islamic women. Answer: Equal before Allah; treated with more
dignity; some legal rights; influence within the home (e.g. Khadija,
Muhammad's first wife was a successful businesswoman); veiled in
public (wore a hijab); primary duty was to be loyal to and care for her
husband and family; highly protected
⩥ Mamluks. Answer: Turkish slaves of the Abbasids; revolted and
established a new capital at Samarra in central Iran
⩥ Seljuk Turks. Answer: A nomadic Sunni group who constantly
threatened the Abbasid Empire
⩥ Mongols. Answer: Overran the Islamic Empire and destroyed
Baghdad thereby signaling the end of the Abbasid Dynasty
⩥ Ottoman Turks. Answer: Reunited Egypt, Syria, and Arabia in a new
Islamic state
⩥ Middle Ages. Answer: The period after the fall of Rome and before
the Renaissance; feudalism
⩥ Byzantine Empire. Answer: Used the Greek language; architecture
had distinctive domes; more in common with eastern culture like Persia;
branch of Christianity called Orthodox Christianity; emperor ruled with
, absolute authority (especially over the economy such as silk production
which they monopolized); used coin money
⩥ Orthodox Christianity. Answer: A separate branch of Christianity used
in the Byzantine Empire
⩥ Justinian. Answer: Byzantine emperor (r. 527-565); reigned during a
time of peace and prosperity; remembered for the Justinian Code and the
flowering of the arts and sciences, evident in the construction of major
buildings and churches (Hagia Sofia)
⩥ Justinian Code. Answer: A codification of Roman law that kept
ancient Roman principles alive
⩥ Hagia Sofia. Answer: An enormous cathedral built during the reign of
Justinian that stands today as an Islamic mosque
⩥ Pope. Answer: The leader of the Roman Catholic Church
⩥ Schism in Christianity. Answer: 1054; Orthodoxy in the East and
Roman Catholicism in the West
⩥ St. Cyril. Answer: An Orthodox Christian who was a missionary to the
Slavic peoples of southeastern Europe and Russia; created the Cyrillic
alphabet
MAPPING IMPERIAL EXPANSION
COMPREHENSIVE EXAM SCRIPT 2026
COMPLETE QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
GRADED A+
⩥ Dome of the Rock. Answer: Built on Temple Mount in Jerusalem
during the Umayyad Dynasty
⩥ Shi'ite (Shia) Islam. Answer: One of the divisions of Islam; believe
that Ali was the rightful heir to the empire
⩥ Sunni Islam. Answer: One of the divisions of Islam; believe that the
caliph should be chosen from a broad base of people; against Ali
⩥ Abbasid Dynasty. Answer: 750-1258; golden age from the early to the
mid-9th century; capital at Baghdad;
⩥ Baghdad. Answer: Capital of Abbasid Dynasty; one of the greatest
cultural centers of the world
⩥ Trade in the Islamic Empire. Answer: Idea of credit introduced;
system of itemized receipts and bills
,⩥ Islamic Advancements. Answer: Steel, medical and mathematics
(especially algebra)
⩥ Mohammad al-Razi. Answer: Islamic; published a massive medical
encyclopedia
⩥ Battle of the Talus River. Answer: Abbasid versus Tang China; fight
for control of Silk Road trading posts; where the Abbasids found
Chinese paper money and learned to make their own
⩥ Islamic preservation of Western culture. Answer: Classical writings
were translated into Arabic and preserved them in Arabic libraries and
museums
⩥ Levant. Answer: Area of land including present-day Israel, Jordan,
Syria, Lebanon, and other points north and south
⩥ Sufis. Answer: Islamic mystics; most effective Islamic missionaries;
practiced their own way to revere Allah, not the traditional rituals;
tolerant of others who placed Allah in the framework of other beliefs
⩥ Arabic women. Answer: Viewed as property; low status; female
infanticide
,⩥ Islamic women. Answer: Equal before Allah; treated with more
dignity; some legal rights; influence within the home (e.g. Khadija,
Muhammad's first wife was a successful businesswoman); veiled in
public (wore a hijab); primary duty was to be loyal to and care for her
husband and family; highly protected
⩥ Mamluks. Answer: Turkish slaves of the Abbasids; revolted and
established a new capital at Samarra in central Iran
⩥ Seljuk Turks. Answer: A nomadic Sunni group who constantly
threatened the Abbasid Empire
⩥ Mongols. Answer: Overran the Islamic Empire and destroyed
Baghdad thereby signaling the end of the Abbasid Dynasty
⩥ Ottoman Turks. Answer: Reunited Egypt, Syria, and Arabia in a new
Islamic state
⩥ Middle Ages. Answer: The period after the fall of Rome and before
the Renaissance; feudalism
⩥ Byzantine Empire. Answer: Used the Greek language; architecture
had distinctive domes; more in common with eastern culture like Persia;
branch of Christianity called Orthodox Christianity; emperor ruled with
, absolute authority (especially over the economy such as silk production
which they monopolized); used coin money
⩥ Orthodox Christianity. Answer: A separate branch of Christianity used
in the Byzantine Empire
⩥ Justinian. Answer: Byzantine emperor (r. 527-565); reigned during a
time of peace and prosperity; remembered for the Justinian Code and the
flowering of the arts and sciences, evident in the construction of major
buildings and churches (Hagia Sofia)
⩥ Justinian Code. Answer: A codification of Roman law that kept
ancient Roman principles alive
⩥ Hagia Sofia. Answer: An enormous cathedral built during the reign of
Justinian that stands today as an Islamic mosque
⩥ Pope. Answer: The leader of the Roman Catholic Church
⩥ Schism in Christianity. Answer: 1054; Orthodoxy in the East and
Roman Catholicism in the West
⩥ St. Cyril. Answer: An Orthodox Christian who was a missionary to the
Slavic peoples of southeastern Europe and Russia; created the Cyrillic
alphabet
