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Al-Andalus
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Caliph Abd Al Rahman escaped the __________ ____________ with the Abbasids and fled to Spain. | Deadly dinner |
| Caliph Abd Al Rahman became the leader of the remaining Umayyad Empire in Spain and made __________ his capital. | Cordoba |
| Caliph Rahman united Spain by making treaties with other Muslim groups that supported the Umayyad and attacking ______________ that tried to seize power after the Umayyad Empire fell during the "deadly dinner." | Muslim groups |
| Abd Al Rahman became the ______ of Al-Andalus, which is another name for Muslim Spain. | Emir |
| Caliph Abd Al Rahman's army protected the people of Al-Andalus from the Abbasid invaders to the _________ and Christian invaders from the _________. | South; north |
| Caliph Abd Al Rahman III was the first caliph of Cordoba. He ruled for 49 years. He turned Cordoba, Spain into a thriving _________ center. | Cultural |
| Caliph Abd Al Rahman modeled his government after the Abbasids. He had a standing army, inclusion, emirs, and freedom of _________. | Religion |
| Caliph Abd Al Rahman hired ______ from Scandinavia, Germany, and Africa to defend his empire. | Mercenaries |
| The ______________ of Cordoba was the largest _______ of its time. | Great Mosque |
| The city of Cordoba had paved and lighted _______ and public _______. | Streets, baths |
| Love of learning was Cordoba's greatest _________. | Legacy |
| Smart people from all over the world came to Cordoba. Even ___________ scholars were invited. | Non-Muslim |
| Cordoba had a ___________. People (even ______) could be doctors, lawyers, poets, musicians, and teachers. | Major University; Women |
| Moses Maimonides was a Cordoban __________ scholar who was a doctor, teacher, writer, and philosopher. | Jewish |
| Al Zahrawi was a Cordoba doctor who wrote a textbook on how to perform __________. | Surgery |
| Abbas Ibn Firnas experimented with __________, and built a planetarium in Cordoba | Flight |
| Products included leather goods, prayer _________, ivory boxes, and paper making. | Carpets |
| "______ crops"- figs, almonds, cherries, bananas, and cotton. There were 4,000 markets. | Cash |
| Christian Kingdoms in Northern Spain sought to take back the land that the _________ Empire controlled. This was called the __________ (or in Spanish, the _________." | Umayyad; Reconquest; Reconquista |
| Kind Ferdinand of Aragorn and Queen Isabella of Castile married and combined their armies to drive the Muslims out of _____ in 1492. This ended Muslim Rule in _______. | Spain |
| Many Muslims and Jews were ________ or burned at the stake if they did not renounce their faith and convert to Christianity. | Tortured |
| The Muslims that left Spain fled to ___________. | North Africa |
| As a result, the present day population of Spain is __% Catholic, and the present day population of Morocco is __% Muslim. | 99; 98 |
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