AP WORLD CHAPTER 15 HOMEWORK (Pp

AP WORLD CHAPTER 15 HOMEWORK (pp.370-392) NAME ______Fill in the blanks! Date Due:

TROPICAL LANDS AND PEOPLES 1) Refer to the map on page 372. In which direction do the monsoon winds travel from December to March? ______. From April to August? ______2) Who were the short hunters from central Africa? (372) ______3) What did their knowledge of waterholes permit pastoralists to do? (373) ______4) How did pastoralists feed themselves? (373) ______5) What was the dominant way of life for most tropical people from 1200-1500? (373) ______6) Which country’s lush vegetation made it resemble the Garden of Paradise? (373) ______7) What did sub Saharan farmers do when the natural fertility of their soil was exhausted? (373) ______8) Farmers in the tropics ADAPTED to the uneven distribution of rainfall by storing water and by creating irrigation canals. In this regard, what did people in Vietnam, Java, Malaya, and Burma do? (373) ______9) Which government of northern India built large reservoirs and canals? (374) ______. Which crops did they grow? ______10) What was the most abundant metal in the tropics? (374) ______What did people make out of this metal? (374) ______11) Give two reasons why metal-working and food producing systems were important. (375) a) ______b) ______

NEW ISLAMIC EMPIRES 1) Refer to the CHRONOLOGY chart on page 371. When was Mali founded? ______When did Mansa Musa go to Mecca? ______When was the Delhi Sultanate founded? ______(Now go back to page 375). 2) Where was Mali located? ______. Where was the Delhi Sultanate located? ______3) What caused the collapse of Ghana in 1076? (375) ______4) Picture question. Which king is depicted as ‘rich and noble’? (376) ______5) Refer to the map on page 377. Name five East African cities shown on this map. ______Which religious group of people traded with these cities? ______6) What was Ibn Battuta’s opinion of Mali’s government? (378) ______7) Which group of people retook the Mali capital of Timbuktu? (378) ______When? ______8) What motivated the Muslims to conquer northern India? (380) ______9) In what ways were the members of the Delhi Sultanate brutal conquerors? (380) ______10) Which woman was a great monarch of the Delhi Sultanate? (380) ______11) Where was Gujarati? Why was it significant? (381) ______INDIAN OCEAN TRADE 1) Between 1200 and 1500, what stimulated the Indian Ocean trade? (382) ______2) As a result, the demand for luxury goods such as ______rose significantly. (382) 3) Which type of boat was constructed in Malabar? (382) ______4) What were the two distinctive features of the Indian Ocean dhow? (385, Environment & Technology) a) ______b) ______5) Refer to the picture on page 385. What impact did the Royal House (a.k.a. Big Stone house) have on visitors? ______6) Refer to the map on page377. Trace Ibn Battuta’s route from Mecca through the Red Sea to Aden. 7) India: Gujarat and Malabar. Refer to the map on page 381. Locate Gujarat and Malabar. Now go back to page 386. Why did the state of Gujarat prosper? ______. 8) What was manufactured in Gujarat? (386) ______9) Which strait was the principal passage into the South China Sea? (387) ______10)The conversion of an early ruler in this region from Hinduism to ______helped promote trade with the ______and other ______merchants. (387) 11) What did Muslims make mosques out of? (387) ______See picture on page 378! 12) What does the picture on page 388 show? ______13) Which language is a form of Hindi writing? (388) ______14) In addition to the Quran, what else did Muslim scholars study? (388) ______15) What was the minaret depicted on page 389 used for? ______SOCIAL AND GENDER DISCTINCTIONS (P.390) 1) During this period the gap between the ______and ______widened. (390) 2) How much, and what type of taxes did the peasants pay to the Delhi Sultanate? (390) ______3) In Africa, what did the growth of powerful states lead to? (390) ______4) Who was Askia Muhammad? What did he seize control of? When? (390) ______5) Which empire was Mali’s successor? (390) ______6) What did Hindu women continue to suffer from? (390) ______7) What was sati? (390) ______8) What determined a female’s status? (391) ______9) In addition to child rearing what other roles did women play? (391) ______