Unit 2 test 2 Islam test
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AngelaWinchester on October 5, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 What holy book is sacred to Moslems, Christians and Jews? | Torah |
| How is the hijrah a significan turning point for the Islamic faith? | they were more open to converting to Islam, allowing the new faith to take root. |
| He is the final prophet of Islam teaching that Allah is the one true God | Muhammad |
| This caliphate openly embraced the material wealth, not following the simple life of earlier caliphs, creating a split in the Islamic community: | Ummayyads |
| By making Baghdad the new political and cultural capital of the Islamic world they were able to: | use the centralized location to increase trade routes between China and Europe (making the empire wealthier) |
| Muslims are also guided by a book telling of Muhammad's life in the: | sunna |
| Christianity is to church as Islam is to: | mosque |
| What did Muslims believe about the relationship of Islam to Christianity and Judaism? | They all worshipped the same God |
| All three faiths also embraced this belief in one God: | monotheism |
| Why did the Sunni and Shi'a split? | They had disagreements over who should be in power. |
| What does Islam literally translate into? | Submit to the will of Allah |
| Which statment is NOT true regarding the treatment of Jews and Christians under the legal authority of early Islamic empires? | 1. Christians and Jews were required to pay an additonal tax Muslims did not have to pay 2. Muslims offered the protection and special status in Muslim societies 3. Muslims refused to allow Christian pilgrims to visit the holy land. |
| What group of successors immediately took over leadership of Islam after the life of Muhammad? | Caliphs |
| What instrument developed by Islamic scholars was created to help worshippers find the direction of Mecca? | the astrolabe |
| Ibn Sina is to medicine as Ibn Battuta is to | geography |
| What major cross cultural contribution did Ibn Sina develop? | a Canon of Medicine, a medical encyclopedia that became the central influencing authority on medicine until the 1600's. |
| How did Muslims help protect the cultural heritage of Europe? | Muslims preserved the classical writings of anceint Greece and Rome. |
| What is an example of an Islamic mathematical achievement? | Algebra |
| Why was calligraphy so prevalant in Islamic art? | images of animals or peopple are forbidden for fear of idol worship |
| How has cultural geography played a major role in the development of international trade in the East African port city of Aksum? | Its trade routes linked Rome to India |
| Swahili is another example of cross cultrual diffusion within the Islamic world in that it blends Arab and Persian languages with this native language of Africa | Bantu |
| What trade regions did Muslims dominate? | Silk Road, Northern and Eastern Africa, Indian Ocean, Middle East, and the Mediterranean Sea |
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