Duplicate of Unit 7: Islamic World

Question 1

What is this form of decorative writing?

Accepted Answer

Calligraphy

Question 2

Which group believes any devout follower of Islam can be the leader?

Accepted Answer

Sunnis

Question 3

Muslim scholars are credited with creating....

Accepted Answer

Algebra

Question 4

1 of the 5 pillars of Islam, the hajj is?

Accepted Answer

a pilgrimage to Mecca

Question 5

What is a caliph?

Accepted Answer

political and religious leader of Muslim community

Question 6

What direction to Muslims face when praying?

Accepted Answer

Toward Mecca

Question 7

Which city was conquered by the Mongols ending the Islamic Empire?

Accepted Answer

Baghdad

Question 8

Which of these is associated with the Islamic Golden Age?

Accepted Answer

invention of algebra

Question 9

Muslim scholars in Baghdad and Cordoba translated which type of ancient writings into Arabic?

Accepted Answer

Greek and Latin

Question 10

Which religion believes that Muhammad is a prophet of God?

Accepted Answer

Islam

Question 11

The belief that bodies of water, animals, trees, and other natural objects have spirits.

Accepted Answer

Animism

Question 12

Which religion believes that there is only one God?

Accepted Answer

All three

Question 13

What did Muslims do to Christians and Jews they conquered?

Accepted Answer

made them pay a tax

Question 14

Why do geographers call Arabia a "crossroads" location?

Accepted Answer

Trade routes linking Africa, Asia, and Europe run through it

Question 15

What issue caused Islam to split into two sects?

Accepted Answer

choosing a new leader

Question 16

Who founded Islam?

Accepted Answer

Muhammad

Question 17

Which of the following is a key belief, or duty, of Islam?

Accepted Answer

Each Muslim should participate in alms giving

Question 18

Which religion believes that Abraham was a prophet of God?

Accepted Answer

all three

Question 19

Mecca's rulers immediately approved Muhammad's teachings and helped spread the Islamic Message:

Accepted Answer

False

Question 20

What is the name for the place where Muslims worship?

Accepted Answer

Mosque

Question 21

Which battle stopped the spread of Islam?

Accepted Answer

Battle of Tours

Question 22

Which of these is not one of the Five Pillars?

Accepted Answer

wearing a veil

Question 23

Why were early Muslim armies so successful?

Accepted Answer

All of the above.

Question 24

What two products were traded along the Trans-Saharan trade route?

Accepted Answer

gold and salt

Question 25

What geographic feature separates North Africa from Sub-Saharan Africa?

Accepted Answer

the Saharan Desert

Question 26

Muhammad became the prophet of Islam after?

Accepted Answer

Heard the voice of the Angel Gabriel

Question 27

Which empire had its capital at Damascus?

Accepted Answer

Umayyad

Question 28

Muslim architecture, like the Dome of the Rock, shows influences from which civilizations?

Accepted Answer

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine

Question 29

Which religion believes that Jesus is the Son of God?

Accepted Answer

Christianity

Question 30

Where was Islam founded?

Accepted Answer

Mecca

Question 31

What is the holy book of Islam?

Accepted Answer

Koran

Question 32

Why did so many people convert to Islam?

Accepted Answer

It preached equality.

Question 33

Which empire was known as a Golden Age of art and learning?

Accepted Answer

Abbasid

Question 34

Which religion believes that charity is important?

Accepted Answer

All three

Question 35

Which group believed that the leader of the Muslim people should be from Muhammad's family?

Accepted Answer

Shia

Question 36

Which empire's leaders were criticized for not following the rules of Islam?

Accepted Answer

Umayyad

Question 37

Which civilization in southern Africa had access to trade in East Africa and the Indian Ocean?

Accepted Answer

Great Zimbabwe

Question 38

Which option is listed in the correct chronological order?

Accepted Answer

Ghana, Mali, Songhai

Question 39

Strong, wealthy leader of Mali who went on the Hajj

Accepted Answer

Mansa Musa

Question 40

The _______ (pictured here) is located in the city of _________.

Accepted Answer

Ka'aba/Mecca

Question 41

What area was never part of a Muslim Empire?

Accepted Answer

Northern Europe

Question 42

Which city was the cultural learning center in West Africa under the rule of Mansa Musa?

Accepted Answer

Timbuktu

Question 43

What religion spread from the Middle East across North Africa into West Africa?

Accepted Answer

Islam

Question 44

Horseshoe arches were an important architectural feature of ___________.

Accepted Answer

Great Mosque, Cordoba, Spain

Question 45

Which empire converted to Christianity in Africa?

Accepted Answer

Axum

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