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World History Ch 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Muslim civilization flourished under the early: | Abbasids |
| Muhammad's father-in-law, Abu Bakr, became the first: | caliph |
| The Seljuk ruler, controlled Baghdad by 1055? | sultan |
| A slender tower of a mosque | minaret |
| Who were the Muslim mystics who sought communion with God through meditating and fasting? | Sufis |
| The first people that the united Muslims conquered were the: | Persians and Byzantines |
| The key difference between Sunni and Shiites concerns: | how the caliph should be chosen and what his role is |
| The caliphs expanded Arab rule with their spectacular military conquests; this best describes the: | Umayyad caliphate |
| What is the significance of the battle of Tours in 732? | The Muslim advance into Western Europe was halted |
| Muslim culture also flourished in the country of: | Spain |
| Who was the author of The Rubaiyat, a poetry collection? | Omar Khayyam |
| Who was the thinker who urged historians to investigate their sources? | Ibn Khaldun |
| Who was the Persian physician known in Europe as Avicenna? | Ibn Sina |
| The ability to move up in class was referred to as: | social mobility |
| Who was the writer of a history of Persia, Book of Kings? | Firdaws |
| As a result of a vast trading network, Muslims developed: | banks |
| What was the recurring them in the art and literature of Muslim civilization? | religion |
| How would Muslim centers of learning best be described? | Scholars made advances in philosophy, mathematics, and medicine |
| Muslim mathematicians pioneered the study of: | algebra |
| Muhammad al-Razi is known in part for his book about: | measles and smallpox |