NHS UNIT 12 - The Muslim World

Question 1

What were the successors of Muhammad called?

Accepted Answer

caliphs

Question 2

What are the acts of worship followed by all Muslims?

Accepted Answer

Five Pillars

Question 3

Who was the first to lead Islam after the death of Muhammad?

Accepted Answer

Abu Bakr

Question 4

Safavids were _____ Muslims.

Accepted Answer

Shiite

Question 5

Umayyads were _____ Muslims.

Accepted Answer

Sunni

Question 6

Why was the Fertile Crescent and the Persian Empire so easily captured by the Muslim armies?

Accepted Answer

Byzantine and Persian empires were at war with each other

Question 7

Ottomans were ______ Muslims.

Accepted Answer

Sunni

Question 8

What religious official calls the faithful to prayer?

Accepted Answer

muezzin

Question 9

Founder of the Abbassid Dynasty.

Accepted Answer

Abu al-Abbas

Question 10

Who defeated and stopped the Muslim expansion into western Europe at the Battle of Tours?

Accepted Answer

Charles "The Hammer" Martel

Question 11

Seljuks were ________ Muslims.

Accepted Answer

Shiite

Question 12

The declaration of faith

Accepted Answer

Shahadah

Question 13

Who was responsible for expelling the final Muslims out of western Europe in 1492?

Accepted Answer

Ferdinand and Isabella

Question 14

What did Islam forbid in its mosques that influenced the art and architecture?

Accepted Answer

no images of God or people

Question 15

Which angel of God brought the word to Muhammad?

Accepted Answer

Gabriel

Question 16

Who recaptured the city of Jerusalem before the Third Crusade?

Accepted Answer

Saladin

Question 17

The rulers of the Ottoman Empire were called

Accepted Answer

sultans

Question 18

The art of beautiful handwriting.

Accepted Answer

calligraphy

Question 19

Which Muslim thinker who combined religion and reason to come to the same truth?

Accepted Answer

Ibn Rushd

Question 20

Islam spread quickly to Asia, North Africa, and the Mediterranean Coast because

Accepted Answer

Muslim traders brought their religion there

Question 21

What do Jews, Christians, and Muslims have in common?

Accepted Answer

belief in one God

Question 22

Which statement describes the lives of the Bedouins?

Accepted Answer

they moved from place to place

Question 23

Sikhism is the blending Islamic beliefs with that of

Accepted Answer

Hinduism

Question 24

What action by caliph al-Hakim began the troubles between Muslims and non-Muslims in Jerusalem?

Accepted Answer

destroyed the Holy Seplchre

Question 25

Which of these statements about learning is NOT correct for Muslim advancements?

Accepted Answer

growth in math was influenced by Christians in the west

Question 26

When can't Muslims eat during Ramadan?

Accepted Answer

sun up to sun down

Question 27

What profession was honored by Islam? (Muhammad's role before becoming the prophet)

Accepted Answer

merchant

Question 28

The conquest of northern India by the Mughals was possible through their use of

Accepted Answer

fast moving cavalry

Question 29

This Muslim caliphate created and ruled over the 5th largest empire in the world.

Accepted Answer

Umayyads

Question 30

Mughals of northern India were ______ Muslims.

Accepted Answer

Sunni

Question 31

Mughal is _____ for Mongol.

Accepted Answer

Persian

Question 32

Praying five times a day

Accepted Answer

Salat

Question 33

Most Muslims today are

Accepted Answer

Sunni

Question 34

Giving of charity

Accepted Answer

Zakat

Question 35

Which was the largest and wealthiest trade center and religious site visited by pilgrims?

Accepted Answer

Mecca

Question 36

According to Sunni Muslims, who should be caliph?

Accepted Answer

those who are descendants of Muhammad

Question 37

What aspect of the military made the Muslim armies better than those they fought?

Accepted Answer

cavalry

Question 38

Which location in Jerusalem is said to be the location Muhammad traveled to during his visions?

Accepted Answer

Dome of the Rock

Question 39

The adoption of a class system in the Muslim world came under the rule of

Accepted Answer

Suleiman the Magnificent

Question 40

Much of the Arabian Peninsula is ____, although there are mountains in the southwest.

Accepted Answer

deserts

Question 41

Under the Abbasids, the capital of the Muslim world moved from _____ to _____.

Accepted Answer

Damascus; Baghdad

Question 42

On which principle do Sunni and Shiite Muslims disagree?

Accepted Answer

who should be caliph

Question 43

What does Islam mean?

Accepted Answer

submit

Question 44

This caliphate ruled during the period known as the "Golden Age of Islam."

Accepted Answer

Abbasid

Question 45

Pilgrimage to Mecca once in your lifetime

Accepted Answer

Hajj

Question 46

Which empire was an attempt to restore the glory of Ancient Persia?

Accepted Answer

Safavid

Question 47

Fasting during Ramadan

Accepted Answer

Sawm

Question 48

What problem did Muhammad have with the polytheistic religion of the Arabian Peninsula?

Accepted Answer

idol worhsip

Question 49

Abbasids were ______ Muslims.

Accepted Answer

Shiite

Question 50

How did Akbar the Great strengthen the Delhi Sultanate of northern India?

Accepted Answer

all of these

Question 51

Water is found only at an ______, green areas fed by underground water supplies.

Accepted Answer

Oasis

Question 52

What is the holy book of Islam?

Accepted Answer

Quran

Question 53

What must Muslims face during prayer?

Accepted Answer

Mecca

Question 54

Where did the one surviving member of the Umayyad Caliphate flee after Abbasid conquest?

Accepted Answer

Cordoba, Spain

Question 55

What aspect of Hinduism in India brought about a great deal of conversion to Islam?

Accepted Answer

class system

Question 56

According to the Ottoman class system, positions of soldiers and government officials were for

Accepted Answer

Muslims

Question 57

The wearing of the Burka is required under the teachings of Islam.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 58

What is the Kaaba?

Accepted Answer

site of pagan idols

Question 59

After the Ottomans captured Constantinople in 1453, they renamed the city

Accepted Answer

Istanbul

Question 60

The city of Yathirib was changed to Medina which means?

Accepted Answer

City of the Prophet

Question 61

Which of these is supported by Islam?

Accepted Answer

religious tolerance

Question 62

Which Muslim thinker is seen as the father of early modern medicine?

Accepted Answer

Ibn Sina

Question 63

Which Muslim caliphate did crusaders battle to regain control of the Holy Lands?

Accepted Answer

Seljuks

Question 64

Which Muslim thinker produced advancements in algebra and trigonometry?

Accepted Answer

al-Khwarizmi

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