Unit 1: The Global Tapestry
World History · Unit 1 · Paper 1

The Global Tapestry unit test

A test on this unit alone, marked as a percentage and a letter grade — for the test your class is actually sitting, rather than for May. Answer everything, then submit once: seeing the answer to question 3 before attempting question 4 makes the final percentage meaningless.

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Each paper is built from this unit’s 20 terms and is the same for everyone, so a teacher can assign “Unit 1, Paper 1” and every student sits the identical test. Multiple choice is marked objectively; the written sections you mark yourself against the model answer and rubric.
Suggested time 30 min 27 points0/17 attempted
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Chinese civil service examination

2

Dar al-Islam

3

Bhakti movement

4

House of Wisdom

5

Foot binding

6

Ibn Battuta

7

Neo-Confucianism

8

Great Zimbabwe

9

Feudalism in Europe and Japan

10

Champa rice

11

Mali Empire and Mansa Musa

12

Song dynasty China

Short answer 1. Define or explain: Sufism

3 pts

Short answer 2. Define or explain: Chinampas

3 pts

Short answer 3. Define or explain: Manorialism

3 pts

Short answer 4. Define or explain: Mit'a system

3 pts

Free response

3 pts

This course has no free-response prompt tagged to this unit, so one from elsewhere in the course is used. It is still worth writing — the skill transfers.

Short-Answer Question. Answer (a), (b), and (c).

Identify and briefly describe ONE way Mongol rule between 1200 and 1400 promoted exchange across Eurasia.

Briefly explain ONE way Mongol conquest disrupted existing societies or networks in the same period.

Briefly explain ONE reason the Mongol Empire fragmented by the mid-fourteenth century.