UNIT TEST MONDAY - Chapters 8-14

Things to study:
Read all of the chapters (including the specialized sections, maps, charts and timelines)
Focus on various specifics of themes: economics, political structures, religion, interchange of culture/ideas, etc.)
Islam’s beginnings, beliefs/practices/sacred sites, and post Muhammad ear
Important Muslim battles
Islamic power shifts
Justinian
Byzantine Empire
Chinese dynasties and their political rivals
Central Asian nomads
Buddhism throughout the east (including China and India)
Women in the east (India, Asia, etc.)
Mesoamericas
Roman Empire’s fall
Roman Catholic Church (10th century)
Korea
Japan
Vietnam
Mongols
Africa
Russia
Eastern Europe
European Crusades
Battlefield advances in Latin West
Technologies of Latin West
Social reform in Latin West
Economic structure of Latin West (Guilds)
Women in the Latin West
Epidemics and results
Renaissance
Monasticism
Strait of Malacca
Maritime innovations of various regions and oceans (including ships)
Cities and peoples of influence in the western hemisphere