Early Islamic Civilisations

Question 1

What city do some people believe is the oldest in the world?

Accepted Answer

Damascus

Question 2

What is the name of the river that flows through Baghdad?

Accepted Answer

River Tigris

Question 3

What is a Haji?

Accepted Answer

Pilgrimage

Question 4

Who was the founder of the religion Islam?

Accepted Answer

The Prophet Muhammad

Question 5

What modern day invention can be linked to the inventor Abbas Ibn Firnas

Accepted Answer

Aeroplanes

Question 6

What modern day country was the largest country within the Islamic Empire?

Accepted Answer

Saudi Arabia

Question 7

What was the name of the attack that led to the downfall of the Round City of Baghdad?

Accepted Answer

The Seige of Baghdad

Question 8

True or false? Mohammad popularised the use of the tooth brush in around 600?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 9

What is the name of the book that records messages from Allah?

Accepted Answer

Quran

Question 10

Genghis Khan, Mongolian warrior-ruler, is said to be one of the most famous conquerors of history?

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

Europe was going through the Dark Ages during Baghdad's Golden Age

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

Which cities were under consideration to be the new capital of the Arabian Empire?

Accepted Answer

Damascus, Baghdad, Mecca

Question 13

When the Mongols attacked Baghdad in 1258, they through all of the books in to the River Tigris and it turned black.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

Baghdad is the capital city of ...

Accepted Answer

Iraq

Question 15

What was an astrolabe used for?

Accepted Answer

Invention used to identify stars or planets

Question 16

What was the House of Wisdom?

Accepted Answer

a major intellectual centre of research and education

Question 17

What is a caliph?

Accepted Answer

The leader of a muslim state.

Question 18

What is this known as?

Accepted Answer

Call to prayer

Question 19

What was the name given to the religious wars between the Arabian Empire and the Europeans?

Accepted Answer

The crusades

Questions 19