Chapter 9 and 10 Review

What initiated the division within Islam between the Sunnis and Shias?

Technological changes in which field limited women’s opportunities in Western Europe by the fifteenth century?

Nomadic Arabs are known as _________________.

After the fall of Rome, what system emerged that emphasized the reciprocal ties between a king and his subjects?

The following contributed to the rapid expansion of the Islamic/Arab Empire in the century following Muhammad's death

Which of the following statements expresses a view of women found in the Quran?

Why was the city of Mecca important?

The Islamic sacred Book of Muhammad's life & message.

Outside of Europe, the strongest presence of Christianity from 500 to 1300 was in

Which of the following refers to the pilgrimage to Mecca that Muslims should try to make at once in their lifetime?

In comparison to Byzantium, Latin Christendom before 1000 CE was

Blended Islam beliefs such as devotion to universal God & Hindi concepts like karma & reincarnation.

In the Islamic Empire, protected subjects who followed other "religions of the book" besides Islam were known as _______

Which of the following is true of pre-Islamic Arabia?

A feature of the High Middle Ages in Western Europe was

In comparison to Byzantium, the Latin West before 1000 C.E.

A good example of Europeans building on rather than just borrowing technologies from other civilizations is

Serfs

During the period from 1000 to 1300, the rulers in which region held the least power?

The great religious shrine of both pre-Muslim and Muslim Arabia is called the ___________.

In contrast to the Umayyad dynasty, the caliphs of the Abbasid dynasty

The political culture of post-Roman Western Europe possessed all EXCEPT which of the following?

In Western Europe after the collapse of the Roman Empire in 476 C.E.,

The House of Wisdom: the center of research & translation of scientific, medical & philosophical text, is located here

Besides Islam, which of the following was also a target of Western European crusaders?

Tax paid by non-Muslims in the empire.

Which of the following describes the situation in Western Europe after the collapse of the Roman Empire in 476?

After 500 C.E. the Byzantine Empire was substantially weakened by invasions by all EXCEPT which of the following?

Which of the following was a feature of Byzantine society adopted by the Rus?

The entire community of Muslims bound together because of religion & nothing else.