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WH Q1 Benchmark
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History
7th Grade
11/13/2009

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The Romans borrowed ideas in art and architecture from the
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Greeks
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What was the significance of Odoacer's overthrow of the emperor of the Western Roman Empire?
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It marked the end of the Western Roman Empire
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What city became the capital of the Byzantine Empire?
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Constantinople
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What was a reason for the decline of Rome?
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dishonest and corrupt rulers
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Roman builders were the first people to use what material?
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concrete
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Who was the first emperor of Rome?
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Augustus
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Describe the Byzantine civilization.
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formed by a blend of several cultures
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What was the religious center of the Byzantine Empire?
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Hagia Sophia
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Describe the Arabian Peninsula.
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mostly desert
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The relgion of Islam was brought to Arabia through the teachings of whom?
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Muhammad
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Why did Makkah become the richest city in Arabia?
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it was a crossroads for merchants
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What is the name given to customs based on Muhammad's words and deeds?
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Sunna
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Muslim mathemticians developed what branch of mathematics?
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algebra
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And serve God . . . and to your parents show kindness, and to kindred, and orphans, and the poor, and the neighbor who is akin, and the neighbor who is a stranger, and the companion who is strange, and the son of the road. . . . God loves not him who is proud and boastful.
—The Quran
Who does God NOT love?
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proud and boastful people
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The moral teachings of the Quran...
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are similar to those of the Bible
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